Complete with another set of unconscionable crises. This is not a diversion from our ongoing conversation about the problematic roots of labor and compensation in our culture, but rather another thread in this web that we humans have woven. 

In Texas, millions of people are suffering from frigid temperatures - many without power, heat, hot water, or any water at all. Texans live in houses designed to keep them cool, a necessity in the sweltering heat of the summer. This compounds the problem when the temperatures plunge below freezing with no means to keep the inside any warmer than the outdoors.

The ensuing problems were created for the profit of a few, the price we pay for our reverence of 'independence'. And in this case, the independent power grid traded off years of underinvestment, deregulation, and neglect in favor of short term profits. One day we will learn that those profits are an illusion, because in the end everyone pays - in mutual aid, in FEMA funds, in repairing burst pipes, in lives lost.

As a collective, humans keep taking everything to the edge. We squeeze out every last drop without any wiggle room. We have no buffer zone. Our culture seems conditioned to think only of today, even as we watch the COVID death toll climb to 500,000 in the United States alone.

We will continue to envision a different future by acknowledging and uplifting the ways in which we are all interconnected, and building tools and resources that help us work together side by side, with all we have in common. Just as we can see that there is always a price to pay, we know that decisions that may not seem popular today will move us toward collective freedom.

If you are looking for a way to help, consider one or more of the following:

Off Their Plate gets hot meals from women- and POC-run restaurants to frontline workers. Support their efforts. 

Help Baby2Baby's Disaster Relief program distribute blankets, diapers, warm coats, food and water to families in need from the deep freeze in areas of our country.

Feed the People in Dallas 

Yours in food, justice, and food justice,

Tay + Dor