Habits

These pictures are from volunteering delivering surplus food to the community center a couple months ago. I don't usually take pictures so when I do I sometimes post them here. I like alleviating suffering. I don't like watching TV or scrolling social media so I volunteer instead. I don't understand how people find so much time for social media when we can volunteer.

Yesterday hit close to freezing. It was cold and windy, but close to the solstice, I get what sunlight I can. For the first time I set up both panels charging both batteries and got close to filling each. I'm not good at selfies anytime. When I had to take my gloves off for the touchscreen to work and the wind, sorry, this is the best I could do: How about some pictures of the panels and city in the background and my computer charging? You can't tell the temperature from the pictures below (maybe you can from my wearing two winter coats, a scarf, and hat), but the cold is why I'm posting. It's challenging to climb the stairs and go outside, so posting…

I posted pictures of food (and doof) I delivered as part of my volunteering yesterday. I visited Philadelphia recently, including the food coop that I grew up with my family shopping at, Weaver's Way, in Mount Airy. I see the place as an institution. It certainly helped form my views on food, community, and community-owned-and-operated businesses, though I only came to realize its value as I moved to fresh, local produce in the past decade or so. Now I belong to a coop in Manhattan. Here's my recent podcast conversation with my mom about it: Here are more pictures of it.

A practice in the volunteering I do is to take a picture of what we deliver and post it to a message board. People thank each other and it makes everyone feel better. It builds community. I haven't posted many pictures lately. I like just delivering the food and the thanks of the people who receive it. Still, the pictures end up on my phone. I usually delete them since the reward has already happened, but for some reason this time I sent the pictures here. Here are some pictures from recent deliveries to the community fridge. They're in no particular order. One or two might be from a different volunteer, but I think they're mostly mine. I recommend volunteering. more

Just a short post with a couple pictures of charging on the roof with snow. February hit the 60s F a few times, but got cold again. A little cold won't keep me from charging or force me to draw from a polluting grid, at least not at home with over nine months of practice.