For me, beauty and love show up through the act of soup making. Why soup? As a sick child, I lovingly recall church members delivering homemade meals to my family while I recovered from surgery. I savored the delicious casseroles, fresh salads and homemade desserts – especially chocolate chip cookies! Yet it was the warm, soul-nourishing soups accompanied by hearty loaves of bread that I remember most fondly. Generous spoonfuls of love incarnate.
Thirty years later, generosity and love in the form of soup reappeared on our family’s doorstep by caring church members. This time, in anticipation and support of a difficult pregnancy as an expectant mother. |
"...Project Drawdown, a highly respected resource on climate solutions…listed reduced food waste as the number one solution to stopping climate change. (This is under the scenario of keeping heating below 2 degrees Celsius.)
Wasting food wastes not only the food itself but also all of the resources that went into producing it: water, energy, land, labor, capital and so on. When that wasted food decomposes anaerobically in a landfill, it releases methane gas, a greenhouse gas that warms the planet at a rate 86 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 10- to 20-year period.
With the average US household wasting 31.9 percent of its food, your pot of soup made with this and that before the food becomes waste not only tastes good but does good."
“To be of the Earth is to know
the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth.” ~ John Soos |