When I started this blog and called it “Making it in Toledo” I was bored. I’m not bored any more. Who could be bored with a toddler in the house? I’m also no longer channeling Lucinda Williams; who could fail to find joy with a three-year old around? Life has changed for the better.
There’s a cost. I can no longer pretend that climate change will even largely spare those I love. Both because the reality is becoming worse and because the life span of my loved ones has been extended. I’ve admitted that we need to think (not quite ready to talk) about adapting to major change, because it’s too late to prevent it. I think adapting will require that more of us do some things I’ve always like doing, like cooking from scratch, using all the parts, and eating seasonally (whatever seasons we may have). (Hence this vegetable soup with beets and carrots and fennel and bone broth).
I’m wrapping up one major volunteer commitment (Pathway) and ramping up another (Reinvest Toledo) and trying to balance my continuing need to be engaged (and FOMO) with the increasing ease of staying at home. Sometimes I can do both by gathering people at home with me.
Hoping to sit down with my computer more often and share thoughts here…. Hoping for comments…