5.9 Breaking Bread - the benefits of sharing spaces & meals
My Grandpa's homes growing up through early adulthood, into marriage and parenting were rooming houses, rentals, sub-leasing rooms and communal meals. It sounds like poverty - but he remembers it as wealth.
The benefits of breaking bread in community - and the way back to that cost-efficient and community-wealth building norm!
Co-living beyond the nuclear family too!
We shifted away in the suburban-sprawling years. How and why to shift back and include these options in our ideas of security and acceptable middle-class living.
The baking in this picture was not done by me - but by my sourdough baking guru, the fabulous Thunder Bay author Jean E. Pendziwol.
Breaking Bread: Building personal connections from neighbourly neighbours to life-long friends. Restoring the options we lost in the suburban sprawling decades: communal eating and living would mitigate our loneliness, affordability and food security crises.
My bright future looks like my Grandpa's fondest memories of his young adulthood!
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Heather McLeod is this show's one woman everything. Contact her at SomethingDifferentThisWayComes@proton.me
