This is thread 2 of updates and resources for Hurricane #Helenebsky.app/profile/lind...

Accurate.

The problem with media coverage in a nutshell: Trump called for “one really violent day” from police, calls Harris “mentally impaired,” claims that if he loses the country will be destroyed, and makes dozens of other malicious and dishonest statement. Yet Nate Cohn calls it a “calm week.”

There were places where I walked under a canopy streaked with saffron and orange, though most of it was green. The world smelled of earth and honey and petrichor, as earth ought to smell in Autumn. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

A Little More Serendipity

I am learning to be happy here. I just need a little more serendipity, and life will be fine.

Our infrastructure tends to be decades behind the rest of the country. It’s hard to get back up and running when you didn’t have much to begin with. This crisis is going to be felt for a very, very long time. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

A Word on the Catastrophic Flooding in Appalachia

I'm grateful that I'm seeing less than the usual number of social media posts from smug armchair liberals from wealthier parts of the country, who think it serves Appalachia right because we're Trump ...

Northern Appalachians don’t call it “venison,” which is fancy fare for rich people to eat in restaurants. They call it “deer meat,” which is sustenance. www.patheos.com/blogs/steelm...

An Adventure in Appalachian Cooking

The honest-as-sod Northern Appalachians don't call it "venison." They call it "deer meat," which is sustenance.

Sorry here's the photo:

See? There's tuna and detergent and everything! We try to get one item per shopping trip unless we're flat broke, but we've had no car all summer so now it's too heavy to fit on the bus!

...and if we wait much longer we'll have to dip into that money just to stay alive and lose our chance. So, these are my Pay Pal and V enmo buttons, and I promise to pay it forward by delivering canned food to the Friendship Room!