It's been a week of thoughts, ideas, fears, humanity at its best & worst and, ultimately, hope. Out there & in here. • I'm a Croatian American daughter of immigrants, and, growing up, my Croatian father, though of another era, often expressed to me how he could never figure out why so many natural born (white) Americans refused to fully acknowledge, respect, and honor the generations old, natural born black Americans that had roots in this country which grew out of the most harrowing struggle possible for their people. Roots that spanned time far greater than those of my family's recent emigration. • My dad did not use all these words, but even from the often antiquated seat of his elder generation, he taught me empathy, open mindedness, self examination, and neighborly humanistic love. • I am hopeful for the future and can try a little more everyday as we all can. • I look forward to continuing to share my rustic, escapist culinary and baking obsessions, stories, and lessons with all. I look forward to reaching out to more black food bloggers (the very white baking world has been a source of mild frustration, one which is up to me to remedy) and just being an all around more open human in the food blogger/photographer/content creator world. • Thanks for listening. Now, instead of a book this week, an equally as important creation: Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone, closing monologue from "I Am The Night, Color Me Black" (season 5; ep. 26) • "A sickness known as hate; not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ - but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone - look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether." • • • #aquarreloffeasts #foodblog #foodblogger #foodwriter #foorwriters #humanity #thetwilightzone #twilightzone #rodserling #jordanpeele #rodisgod #humanism #blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKAF2-DZ_7/?igshid=lb6zarlg6j88
