Day 7: catching up and moving on...

Have been taking much-needed time with my dear friend, Meghan Cary and her baby, Clara, and so have fallen lovingly behind in relating our travels, but still don't feel hurried or panicked. This morning, I got up by 7:30. By 8:30 it was hotter than Hades in Philly and Meghan and I drove to the YMCA for Pilates class, little Clara toddling off to the Y's daycare ladies. It was wonderful to move, and to practice not judging my success or failure..

Got some good editing done today on my own, and catching up on emails. Felt like i didn't see the boys much at all. Meghan and I made banana bread and corn bread and she put veggie chili in the crock pot to cook for hours. I watched Clara while Meghan took a shower. A couple of neighbors stopped by randomly - just neighbor ladies stopping by for a chat on their way to wherever... I had no idea that happened anymore. Such a sense of community here in Chestnut Hill...Meghan and I ate banana bread and i took some up to the boys who had not eaten since breakfast...

When Meghan's husband, Peter, got home from work, the conversation started getting interesting and the dinner chat was lit up. Meghan really wants to know the right things to do. She said that when she came out the the grocery, she looked at her bags and thought,"Oh my God I have way more packaging than food!" There was much discussion over the horrible inefficiency of biofuels and the misguiding of government, the military, the medical profession... Meghan stopped. "This is the point where I put my head down and think we should just blow up, bc there is no hope of this getting better," she said. "There is too much going on that we just don't know anything about so how can we have any effect on it..." Mark reassured her by reminding her that there are so many people who are on it, whose lives are dedicated to bringing all these things to light.

I think our next blog should be about the idiocy of turning to crops for biofuel when it takes more than a gallon of oil to produce one gallon of biofuel. So, you're effectively paying twice and polluting twice as much. Now that just seems silly.