Yay for Friday! This weekend I'm going to see the CubingUSA speed Rubik's cubing NATIONAL COMPETITION. Y'all, never tell me I don't live. It will be delightful.
Has anyone had the chance to eat with people who are outside your usual circle? We want to hear about it! Our intergenerational Sunday school class met for a potluck in the event room of a local library a couple of weeks ago. (Three of my classmates are librarians, and they opened after hours. Again, I PARTY.) It was chaotic and hilarious and so dear. Strongly recommend!
Table inspiration
I've recently been more-than-usually wigged out by the Christian sacrament of communion, or Eucharist. Of course it's part of what inspires The Table, but it's just...weird. Strangely enough, Stanley Tucci opens my thinking in his delicious memoir Taste:
Until I began to fathom my deep emotional connections with food, I had always thought that the ceremonial eating of the communion wafer, a symbol for the body of Christ, was a strange, almost barbaric, pagan ritual. However, now it may well be the only aspect of Catholicism that makes any sense to me at all. If you love someone, you just want them inside of you. (I know what you’re thinking, but let it go.) How many parents hug and kiss their kids and say, ‘I love you so much I just want to eat you up!’ Love can and does enter through the mouth.
I listened to the audiobook, which meant I listened as that charming man read recipes aloud and loved every minute.
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Karen B pushes back on the idea of news intake as an essential Table practice—and, so doing, raises important questions about sharing Table tasks with family members and about hearing local and global news through people you're connected with, instead of impersonal sources. I so appreciate this perspective and would be interested in others' thoughts on it, too!
My husband reads basically ALL the news. Like 100+ articles and academic papers a day. So between being in the world in general and living with him, I really don’t miss anything major. Also, there are things and issues that I care about and I do seek out data/news on those things. However, are usually linked to people/causes that I care about either local or all over the world...If something happens in my local city, it affects me and people I care about and so I have a balanced view of people I care about+good things in their lives+bad news happening. The same is true of people I am deeply connected to in South America, Canada, West Africa, and Central Asia. There are people I care about in all of those places and I can picture them and what they are doing and the joys in their lives and communities. So when something tragic happens, there is a balance and a connection.
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For a couple of weeks this summer, I had a mildly obsessive craving for a Burger King hamburger (??). Googling locations took me down a rabbit hole into the sordid history of Pittsburgh's FAKE BURGER KING.
Worth. A. Read.
See you after the speed cubing! xoxo
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