Making pandemic stock
If stock is what gives your dish full and rich flavour, then I think it's appropriate -- one year into this damn pandemic -- to make some stock from the ingredients I've gathered since last year's A Post a Day in May venture . What I am working with for my stock today includes — Time - quite a lot Understanding - to taste Appreciation - a good amount Privilege - more than a fistful So much time . Everywhere I look, there is time to do something -- more work, more chores, more art, more reading...there is really nothing but time. The challenge is to use the time wisely. Oh sure, not every day, not all the time. But, when this damn pandemic is over, I don't want to look back on these days months and wonder what on earth I did with all that time. My friend Deborah has been writing like a fiend, because she doesn't want to not have used the time for creative purposes. For me, the longer this all drags on, the harder it becomes to be an active user of the time. This i...