We Will Feast

Lent - week 2

Seven weeks ago, my friend Chelsea Long¹ made a massive paper chain with a link representing each week for the next four years. She uses it as a countdown, tearing one link off at the end of each week, and writing down the news headline from that week that stood out to her the most.

I think her idea is clever and practical. I like the specificity of it and the tangible nature and I especially like that it forces the focus onto just one grievance. One. (Can you even imagine?!)

I don’t have a paper chain (yet?) but here’s what I would write on this week’s link:

USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks

(source)

At the community kitchen where I work, the fridge like this most mornings. Food comes in and goes right back out. A couple of weeks ago, we received a massive USDA donation - pork, roasted nuts, frozen peaches, frozen fish. None of it it wasted. We start brainstorming as soon as it arrives. How many ways can we serve pork? Will our guests tolerate fish? (Yes, for the most part!)

On Monday we served the peaches (they’re delicious, especially half-frozen.) Today we served the mix nuts.