We are in gut-wrenching times. 

Yesterday I was in a place of despair. The not-so-supreme-court overturned a one hundred year old law regarding conceal and carry. The 1/6 Committee hearing was particularly unnerving. What didn't succeed the first time will succeed the next time, there is now a blueprint for action. It's quite likely there will be a next time, unless the public as a whole votes. This morning Roe v Wade bit the dust. We knew it was coming, but it's still a gut-punch. Nancy Pelosi vows to enshrine Roe into law, but once again, that depends on the majority in this country, who don't agree with authoritarian rule, voting. The US has an abysmal voter turnout. I've know a lot of people who have proudly stated they don't do politics. My response has been, you may not do politics but politics will most certainly do you. And here we are. On our way to a plutocratic theocracy, unless we stop it. We will only do that if we sit up and take notice, understand a Constitution is a piece of paper which cannot defend itself. The people it is protecting need to protect it. 

So, my obligatory food photo, curtesy of a bad day. I had nothing to cook and no desire to cook it if I had, so an easy pasta. We would go hungry a few nights a week if I didn't have a well-stocked pasta cupboard. I know people who don't have any on hand at all. How DO they survive?