Granola bars. I spent the day in a meeting at a nonprofit and had skipped eating breakfast because I’d assumed they would at least have muffins. They did not have any muffins. Sometimes there’s a romance in social services organizations that meet in windowless conference rooms or church basements and won’t splurge on any extras. “For the glamour,” said Barack Obama in Dreams from My Father, when his colleagues at the community organizing job asked him why he was doing it. Some of the most interesting, and sometimes meaningful experiences of my life have been with groups like these. For lunch I predicted sandwiches, and they had sub sandwiches with chicken or ham and not enough mayo. That is all right.
(Photo: Thomas Harper Cabin, Brookside Nature Center.)
365 Days of Food 