Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. You can find part one of Comfort Food recipes at: Comfort Foods Part One (Recipes): Street Prophets Sunday All Day Brunch.

Someone suggested a thread about Chili and I just happened to have one in my files so here goes. Chili. The perfect food for Autumn weather.

In times of stress we often look to comfort food to help us get through. Comfort food is food that soothes the psyche as it provides nourishment. It often is a food that we remember from our childhood. It can be a favorite dish that was made by Mom or Grandmother. It is rarely a gourmet dish. It is just plain solid home cooking.

The word "community" has been borrowed from pre-internet days, and is being used to describe a phenomenon that is distinctly different in kind. Caucus99perrcent (like its parent DailyKos) is a virtual community, as distinct from an actual community.

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. Having been an artist all my life I really enjoying putting together decorations. Living in an apartment can be challenging because of limited space so I decided the perfect things to decorate were my kitchen table and my plant.

My biases, stated up front:

1. I want this site to survive
2. I want this site to be a place to organize against the corruption that's killing us
3. I want the people of this planet to rise against the corruption that's killing us before we die.

Welcome to Sunday Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you.

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. this is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. I am watching the news in North Dakota. I am there in spirit since it is impossible for me to be there in person. As part Cherokee I am proud that my people are there with our brothers and sisters trying to stop the desecration of our lands.