Combining two topics into one essay here.

The first topic is something I have wanted to say for a long time, but it is pretty short for an essay. Still, I'd like to give it more attention then it would receive as a comment.

Here goes.

Most of us have never met and may never meet the others who blog on this site. IMO, it would be useful to always consider that the majority of us would like each other if we met in person. It seems to be true of those who are able to participate in "meetups."

Personally, I am aware that I am unable to communicate "me" very well in essays. Dyslexia. There are a group of us here who have to wildly edit our writings and just do not have the vast written vocabulary of others (whom I all admire btw). Plus, in my case, sometimes there are goofy happy hour comments. Just fact. The state of the union here. I know I come off as a "pollyanna." Yes, I am, true. But that's not what you get if you meet me in person. I make people laugh. That's true because I see them laugh. It was part of my teaching strategy at the end. I am sure I am a lot edgier than you imagine.

Probably a bit egocentric to make this point. But maybe not if we can all view each other in this light as we write and comment. Maybe some of you wish to comment about the side of you we don't necessarily see?

Topic Number Two

I actually did the bread baking on Wednesday. It's an easy recipe using the bread machine and turns out two loaves of Italian bread per batch. Made a dozen loaves. Three to my family (one was gone before I finished baking), one to a friend, and eight to my neighbor's local baptist church. They usually spend holiday's with us, but this year bowed out because their church was serving a free Thanksgiving dinner, plus taking meals around to people at home. This is a typical fundamentalist baptist church. I don't vote the same. But this in my mind, was an effort that was important to support. My neighbor said the bread was graciously received and they had enough food left over, they are doing it all again today.

Why does this matter?

It's a climate crisis and deep adaptation thing. http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf As a society, we need to learn to share again. I don't believe we can afford to just wait for the shit-to-hit-the-fan. If we have not learned to share before that time, it will be difficult or impossible to switch gears on the fly.

Originally, I thought I would be sharing vegetables from my garden. Well, as of yet . . . that is far away. But when I learned of the Thanksgiving share event and realized this new bread recipe could be a contribution candidate, it clicked that bread could become the first sharing item.

In my circumstances, the logical distribution system is all of these little local churches. My idea is that whenever I am able, I take bread around to each pastor to distribute to the poor and suffering. Maybe once a month to each of the six churches. Maybe with my neighbor's help, expand it to "Bread, Blankets, and Bells." Blankets are her specialty. The Bells would be "Ben's Bells" (thanks to @CS in AZ for linking to them in a comment! https://bensbells.org/make-bens-bells ). My art teacher friend said she might be interested in helping with those. For those who do not know, Ben's Bells is a spreading-intentional-kindness project.

I admit. Sharing sounds pollyanna. Remember though, it is intended remediation for a vastly frightening situation the world is confronting (but mostly ignoring) at this time.

Looking forward to some great comments.