Labors and Leisures

 So, cut the grass today, finally; I mean, it was more than time, and with the days of sun and dryness, the yard was perfectly firm.  Anyways, the mower fired up, and things went smoothly... which is good.  Tomorrow we weedwhack, and the yard will look presentable enough.  My concerns about the earth, the carbon emissions, etc... alas.

https://thehill.com/news/ap/ap-business/high-inflation-leaves-food-banks-struggling-to-meet-needs/

Oh, I don't know...on the one hand, this is a problem that affects everybody, and it is an issue -- people will donate less if they aren't comfortable with their own economic situations, there will be less available to give away, and this is a concern, as demand goes up.  On the other hand, most of these food banks receive generous funding and subsidies from taxes (i.e., other peoples' money), and thus they can handle it.  God forbid people receive less when everyone else is doing without.  And... at a time when there are two job openings for every unemployed person (let's not consider the people who have left the job market), it seems...well, this, to me, is the big problem with the food bank industry.  Like so many other social justice agencies... no one seems to consider that it is one thing to help the poor, but we also need to make them less poor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-years-of-debate-conservatives-split-from-united-methodist-church/ar-AAWZ84v?li=BBnb7Kz

Did I miss something here?  The UMC had a vote, which they lost...but then, they decided that they would not accept the results of the election, and thus -- earning my sobriquet of "neo-Confederate" -- forced this schism...mind you, keeping all of the churches and assets and forcing everyone else to find a new denomination.  And they are held to be in the right here...