So I found some apples today, when due to some long and stupid circumstances I ended up going through the fridge of another tenant in my building who’d skipped out on his lease about a month ago. Needless to say, said fridge had gotten pretty nasty, but there was a bag of apples in which [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
31 Dec
Circles of concern, circles of influence
I just read an article in the current issue of The Canadian Friend that resonated very strongly with me. In “Making Peace With Our Place on the Planet”, Tony McQuail of Kitchener Monthly Meeting writes: Something that has been helpful to me is distinguishing between my circle of concern and my circle of influence. If [...]
28 Dec
Eat, drink and be merry
I met up with a friend of mine over the Christmas holidays, whose name I’m not going to mention for reasons that will become obvious. When we got together, I was surprised to see that she was carrying a bottle of water in her backpack. She’s usually pretty good about environmental stuff, so I asked [...]
5 Nov
Sock and awe
So…socks, right? Just about everybody wears them, especially in Montreal this time of year. (Note: this is probably not going to be one of those “useful” or “coherent” posts, because I didn’t get hardly any sleep last night. Just FYI.) Anyway, socks. I seem to be getting low on socks without giant holes in them, [...]
22 Sep
To everything, a season
The gardening season is drawing inexorably to a close. Frost warnings in the Townships mean my tomatoes are probably almost done, and it’s time to start picking crabapples for jelly and cheering on my pumpkins in the likely-vain hope that they’ll be big enough for jack-o-lanterns in a month. So for today’s post, here’s a [...]
