Here’s what I will be doing this weekend:
Staffing a vote-curing effort for Nevada for two hours (link below)
Asking Marcia for her gooey ginger cake recipe
Having dinner with friends and going for a walk with Finn
Clearing off collage table
Reading a fabulous novel by Kevin Barry
Buying a stupid amount of Extra Strength Tylenol
Finishing the Navalny letters excerpted in a recent New Yorker
Here’s what I will not be doing:
Watching cable news
Making plans to attend a women’s march
Deluding myself into thinking I could grow my own vegetables
Going down rabbit holes about a stolen election (well, maybe a little bit. Can’t they at least audit the swing states?)
What’s your best advice for this immediate aftermath of Trump 2.0?
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How to get thru the immediate and also the following months until January 20th: Give yourself enough time to process your feelings of disbelief, anger, mourning but enough with the finger pointing!
When it is time, think of how you will regroup and go forward and put a plan into action.
Take care of those you love and those you love who are far away. One of our twin daughters, Shelley and her partner, Grant, are on vacation in Morocco as I write this note. They early voted but felt the need, perhaps some kind of sixth sense, to not be here during the election. We have stayed in touch and on the day of Nov. 6th, they sat in a cafe in Tangiers, with cups of green tea, watching Kamala’s concession speech on their phones. A father and his son, about 8 yrs old, were at a nearby table and came over to say hello. The boy wanted to know what they were watching so our daughter Shelley showed him and told him. He looked at her and smiled and said, “when I am grown up, I will be President.”
Pamper yourself with good food and good books and yes, stay away from news, at least, for this holiday weekend.
Honor our veterans no matter how you felt in the 60’s because the new commander in chief has no respect for their sacrifices. . I say this as someone who was a Vietnam protestor, who married a Navy Vet, who by the grace of God did not get sent to Vietnam even though he was a corpsman, the Navy;s term for a medic.
Look forward to spending time with loved ones this holiday season. The last time we saw our twin grandchildren, Spencer and Rowena, in person, they were 10 yrs old. They live in CA, we live in New Mexico, not that far away, but there was a pandemic and then serious illness for my husband, their grandpa, prevented visits although we did stay in touch frequently. Our grands are now 15 yrs old and will be with us for Thanksgiving. Since they and their parents our daughter Erika and son-in-law Adrian, are all vegetarian, we have had many phone calls, emails, etc. in planning our menu. Everyone will have a role in making this a delicious feast, overseen by my husband Rich, who will happily partake of this feast knowing full well that he will have turkey for Christmas!
We will laugh, love, eat, talk, disagree and hold to the joy of family and that is how we will get through these times..
Sage words.
I can’t/but can believe it’s been five years since you’ve seen your grans. I’m excited for your November gathering (even if there won’t be any tasty gravy!)
Actually there will be tasty gravy. My son-in-law will be making a delicious vegetarian mushroom gravy. Here is our menu:
Appetizers: made by my daughter Erika: Bake brie with cranberry chutney on crackers. A mushroom spread for crusty bread and toasted, spiced mixed nuts.
Main course – stuffed acorn squash with wild and brown rice, onion, garlic, celery, dried apricots, and fresh cranberries prepared by me.
Our grands will be in charge of Yukon gold mashed potatoes to accompany their Dad’s mushroom gravy.
We will also have sweet potatoes, a recipe for Chipotle mashed sweet potatoes, an homage to where I live, New Mexico. My daughter and I will make this dish.
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My grandson will make a kale, pecan, shallot, dried cranberry and blue cheese salad. He made it for the family last year and it was a hit.
My granddaughter who is an excellent baker, takes over making our traditional Thanksgiving dessert, Cranberry Nantucket Pie Cake, recipe from the late great food writer and author, Laurie Colwin. She may also want to make a pumpkin pie and if she does, she will certainly teach me, because while I am a good cook, baking pies, especially crusts, are not my forte!
Sounds absolutely amazing. Mushroom gravy? Yummmm. Baked acorn squash is always a treat! And that salad sounds amazing.
As I was writing about our menu, my husband walked by and I told him I was sending you our menu so he wanted to see. He reminded me that I had forgotten the one dish that he had requested- yikes! The dish is green peas with green onions in a Swiss cheese sauce. So now, you have our complete meal!
I want to go to Marti’s for Thanksgiving dinner. 🙂
I know!! Who needs turkey or butter with that menu!
I’m with Stephanie … Thanksgiving at Martin’s sounds like an all around perfect Thanksgiving.
Dee and all who visit here … sending Heart Hugs.
Thanks Tina. You, this community matter more than ever.
I’m back because I have been trying to find balance and if possible, any crumb of good news and I found it here in my state of New Mexico: New Mexico now has a woman majority state legislature
Holy shit. That’s amazing and the kind of news we all need to hear. Ruben Gallego won against Kari Lake and Jackie Rosen won her senate seat back. Also good news.