I’m at a large, new apartment complex and I have just moved there. Susan Rizzo and some of the Summertown, TN Farm gang live there too and there is a gathering event going on, we are all out in the big back patio area for a meal. It looks like the patio/bar/pool area of a typical hotel resort, but no pool and it is groomed by nature rather than being manicured. Not run down looking, just the foliage not tended to, a lot of grass growing in the sidewalks and patios although they don’t seem cracked for the grass to grow thru. Looks like it was supposed to be that way. I pick up a plate, which is really a large wood and maybe stainless steel platter, almost a shallow bowl, and I put a chapati on it to save my place at table. I tear my chaptati in 3 parts and take a bite so someone knows the plate belongs to someone. I go thru the food line but all that is available is meats or foods I don’t care to eat, thinking they have no nutritional value so why waste the calories if I don’t even want it. I see my plate and chapaties have been taken by someone but I don’t know who, it is just missing, and I say nothing. I decide not to eat, it’s only $5 but there’s nothing I can eat except the chaptati I took a bite of, and someone has taken my plate and my place at table anyway. Continue reading →