Bread Orders & Madison in the news
more AmeriCorps news
Good morning bread friends!
It is a delight to be back to baking this week. I canβt wait to bake for you this weekend.
Occasionally I get asked why we take pre-orders like this. The main reason is because making sourdough is a multi day process. When you pre-order on a Thursday, it informs me of how much starter that I need to make on Thursday night/Friday morning. Then on Friday I start making the dough, and by Friday night your dough gets to start itsβs overnight cold fermentation process, before a Saturday morning bake.
So, when you get this newsletter in your inboxβ¦ free to forward it to anyone else who you think might also want to pre-order bread. And be sure to tell them that itβs weekly pre-orders :)
When is the last time you did a double take when you saw something? This morning I made a HUGE double take when I saw this picture in a story from The Washington Post this week.
First I recognized the brick on the building and thoughtβ¦ βisnβt that the building where our barber shop is?β
Then I read the name on the awning and thought, βWAIT that IS the buildingβ¦ and this is Aaron Perryβs clinic right next doorβ¦ Iβve been to this clinic!β
Even though Wisconsin is in the news for political stories frequently, Iβm unaccustomed to black spaces in Madison getting a national spotlight.
Anywayβ¦ this story titled, A big Trump administration cutback went nearly unnoticed, is behind a login wall on the Washington Posts website - but it is worth a read if you are willing to log in with a free account. It is all about these AmeriCorps cuts that weβve been talking about this month.
In reference to the 32,000 low-paid AmeriCorps service workers lost their jobs in April, one person who they interviewed in the story says, βPeople were dedicating a year of their lives to serve their country, and they were suddenly told their contracts meant nothing. The word of our government just isnβt to be trusted anymore.β
He said that AmeriCorps has long helped build faith in public institutions. βNow, that trust has been broken. Rebuilding it, especially for younger generations, is going to take a long time.β
As a reminder, this month 100% of the profits from bread sales are being donated to another Madison based organization (Operation Fresh Start) whoβs funding is being undermined by the federal governmentβs decision to start harming communities by abruptly halting funding for AmeriCorps.
And as I write about this single issue all month⦠there are a number of new dire and urgent ways that our federal government has recently decided to inflict harm on our society this month. So much so that I feel self conscious about just writing about this one way that our communities are being attacked.
And you know what.
That is the point.
Shock and awe is the tactic Trump and his allies are using to disassemble what weβve come to think of this country as.
As best I can tell⦠one of the most effective ways that we can respond to this threat is to increase our attention to finding ways that we can look after each other.
Thank you for the ways that youβre looking after your neighbors. Or volunteering your time in your community. Or donating to causes that are important to you. Or however youβre proactively finding ways to be of service to those around you. And thank you for buying bread from our little philanthropic enterprise where we endeavor to be a part of the solution together.π€
Cheers!
Mo
bread baker