Plant More Seeds
I know. I know. You’re all gardened out. You want to start packing the garden up for the year.
It’s too early for that, my friends.
(smiles)
There’s still time to plant seeds, even in Canada, to get an additional harvest from fast growing vegetables like radish, bok choy and lettuce.
And these plants will keep the soil covered. Planting them will benefit your garden next year.
Let’s go!
Topics: Gardening | Comments Off on Plant More Seeds
Gardening And Food Insecurities
When I was a kid, we didn’t eat every day. Yes, here in Canada. We were severely poor and we were living out in the country, far away from easily accessible food banks.
As a result of that experience, I have food insecurities.
I think almost everyone who has been hungry for an entire day or more deals with this issue.
It is one of the (many) reasons I LOVE gardening season.
Whenever I get overwhelmed with food insecurities, I go outside, look at the growing plants and…I usually plant a few more seeds.
Those vegetable seeds could produce food for the future. That calms me. As does touching the soil and feeling that richness under my fingers.
Gardening gives me that serenity during these turbulent times.
(smiles)
Topics: Gardening | Comments Off on Gardening And Food Insecurities
The Last Of Us, Realism In Entertainment And Food Insecurities
Spoiler Alert – This post will contain very mild spoilers for the limited TV series The Last Of Us. If you haven’t yet watched season one of this series, you might wish to skip this post.
It will also deal with food insecurities. If you are sensitive to this content, (big hugs), stars, do I understand a bit of what you’re enduring. You might wish to skip this post.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I REALLY enjoyed the first season of The Last Of Us. It was brilliant, brilliant storytelling. The character arcs were amazing.
And their handling of food insecurity wasn’t at all traumatic for me.
I grew up not eating every day and I struggle with the ghosts of that food insecurity every dang moment.
Our pantries are stocked with dried and canned food. Our dedicated freezer is crammed with frozen meat, milk, bread, veggies and juice.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I could feed ourselves for at least a year with the food we keep in reserves (and rotate to keep fresh).
Most post apocalyptic stories deal with food insecurities and The Last Of Us is no exception to this.
But The Last Of Us deals with it so brilliantly wrongly that it is a constant reminder it is a fictional story. And I suspect this was a deliberate choice by the creators.
For example, EVERYONE knows if ingredients are short, you make soup (not stew, soup). Soup kitchens exist for a reason. This is common knowledge.
On The Last Of Us, an entire pot of soup could have been made from just one of the pools of freshly spilled deer blood the characters spotted in the snow.
Yet these supposedly starving characters walked by numerous pools of blood, leaving that valuable resource in the snow.
And very little soup (if any) is made on the show at all. This was such a big omission it had to be intentional.
About that deer, some of the characters hunted deer. Hunting is energy intensive.
Yet they had an entire river or lake filled with fish waiting to be caught. Which the creators relayed to viewers again and again with their ‘river of death’ mentions and their screenshots of canoes.
The characters also had forests stocked with healthy pine trees (which the creators, again, brought our attention to).
As many Northern folks know, a tea/soup consisting of boiled pine needles contains massive amounts of vitamin C (and also vitamin A). That’s a food source right there!
All these ‘errors’ (which were so blatant they HAD to be deliberate) allowed me to enjoy The Last Of Us and not deal with my food insecurities.
Inaccuracies in entertainment can reinforce the escapism feel to it. And that can be a very good thing!
Subscribe To My Newsletter: http://cynthiasax.com/newsletter/
Raw Desires
His human female is attempting to kill him.
This cyborg finds that adorable.
Raw, a K model cyborg, is one of the lucky warriors who has located his genetic match. He hears his human female’s voice over the communication lines and immediately processes she is his.
Winning her affections will be a greater challenge. Battle has always been Raw’s focus. The rough-and-tough warrior has no idea how to engage anyone’s tender emotions.
Fortunately, he isn’t alone in the universe. His unmatched male friends help him craft a plan.
All Raw has to do is relay a few unsettlingly sweet words to his female and give her the thoroughly unfunctional wall decoration he has obtained. He projects she will then jump into his big, strong arms and beg him to claim her.
Taytu isn’t jumping anywhere. She has one mission—kill every cyborg in existence.
The huge, handsome male traveling to meet with her is her first target. His rough hands, firm lips, and sparkling, energy-infused eyes won’t save him from her vengeance. She has trained vigorously for this moment, and she won’t fail at her assigned task.
The cyborg will die.
Raw Desires is an enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
Buy Today:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BFG8W5JM
Apple Books:
https://books.apple.com/us/book/raw-desires/id6443413750
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/raw-desires-cynthia-sax/1142255510
Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/raw-desires-2
Smashwords:
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1166190
Topics: Movie Reviews | Comments Off on The Last Of Us, Realism In Entertainment And Food Insecurities
