After-Orts #128

Together, the three big global staple cereals – wheat, rice, maize – comprise a major component of the human diet, accounting for an estimated 42 percent of the world’s food calories and 37 percent of protein intake.
     -- Introduction, here:  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12571-022-01288-7


 A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and ourselves anew.
(Un changement de temps suffit à recréer le monde et nous-mêmes.)
     — Marcel Proust, Le Côté de Guermantes 2: 641


So your niece has joined an online group, Wounded Daughters of Emotionally Distant Fathers. Let it be, no need to comment, that’s not your business. Life is complicated enough without looking for more problems. The urge to control does not make for the good life. Leave domination to the raccoons. Stick with the group. Enjoy your portion, know when to keep your mouth shut. Don’t push.
     — Garrison Keillor, Hurrah for the Plaza, Harper’s magazine, August 2019
https://harpers.org/archive/2019/08/hurrah-for-the-plaza/