There is something so meditative and organizing about wiping up muck and throwing out leftovers. My appetite just flies out the window when I open the refrigerator door and the eight pack of romaine lettuce slides to the floor followed by several snap top Tupperware which skitter across the floor and slam into the dishwasher.
Once I have removed the legion of hot sauces and siracha and wiped everything down and replaced the food, generally an ersatz meal made of celery stalks, mushroom and and last weeks chicken stock begins to formulate.
There is nothing like taking control over your own little patch of nurturance and sanity. If only I could get that compost thing working and buy more locally sourced and organic. But seriously my mood spikes every time I open the refrigerator door and see those gleaming shelves.
An update on yesterdays post about Good Journalism:
Today on my way home in the car to clean my refrigerator I listened to the New Yorker radio hour in what was a multi-media supplement to my reading of the actual journal this week. Much as I like my outraged liberal bubble, the radio hour schooled me on "good journalism." David Remnick started the hour off by interviewing a conservative Washington insider: Steven Hayes editor of the Weekly Standard who very much hopes Donald Trump succeeds despite unethical behavior. Ariel Levy then did an interview of photographer Catherine Opie which gave another view of attitudes about photographing different segments of society: lesbian households, football teams, anti war marches and tea party rallies. Opie doesn't believe she can represent a balanced portrait of American life by excluding whole segments on the other side of the political spectrum like tea partiers and now perhaps the Trump voter. She said, "I might have the most interesting conversation with someone at one of those rallies." It is this kind of attitude, which will bring our country together despite a government that would like to see us divided. Thanks New Yorker for good journalism.
Saw a great movie tonight called Personal Shopper - more on that tomorrow.
Once I have removed the legion of hot sauces and siracha and wiped everything down and replaced the food, generally an ersatz meal made of celery stalks, mushroom and and last weeks chicken stock begins to formulate.
There is nothing like taking control over your own little patch of nurturance and sanity. If only I could get that compost thing working and buy more locally sourced and organic. But seriously my mood spikes every time I open the refrigerator door and see those gleaming shelves.
An update on yesterdays post about Good Journalism:
Today on my way home in the car to clean my refrigerator I listened to the New Yorker radio hour in what was a multi-media supplement to my reading of the actual journal this week. Much as I like my outraged liberal bubble, the radio hour schooled me on "good journalism." David Remnick started the hour off by interviewing a conservative Washington insider: Steven Hayes editor of the Weekly Standard who very much hopes Donald Trump succeeds despite unethical behavior. Ariel Levy then did an interview of photographer Catherine Opie which gave another view of attitudes about photographing different segments of society: lesbian households, football teams, anti war marches and tea party rallies. Opie doesn't believe she can represent a balanced portrait of American life by excluding whole segments on the other side of the political spectrum like tea partiers and now perhaps the Trump voter. She said, "I might have the most interesting conversation with someone at one of those rallies." It is this kind of attitude, which will bring our country together despite a government that would like to see us divided. Thanks New Yorker for good journalism.
Saw a great movie tonight called Personal Shopper - more on that tomorrow.
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