Free Food!

It's a funny thing. The day after we watched DIVE!, I was walking through the Quad and received a free loaf of bread. I could have taken more than one loaf if I wanted, but one was enough for me. The people providing (although they didn't really try to explain what they were doing when I tried to ask) had obviously collected everything the grocery store would give them for the purpose of sharing it with campus students. They wouldn't give them anything but bread, as the makers of DIVE! had mentioned.

This whole thing made me think about how I've been eating for the past six months or so. I haven't gone to the grocery store in almost a month, and I've been able to do that pretty frequently. The only thing I was lacking this week was bread, so despite the fact that the expiration date on this loaf is three days from now, I can use it until it goes bad and it will get me through this week.

I realized that the meal I had been eating throughout the week was made of things I didn't buy. It was made of rice that was left by the previous tenant, sausage my parents gave me, and cauliflower that I got from the a Baptist church's leftovers from a reception. Even the cookware was given to me.

Almost everything I have has been provided for by someone else. That is a miracle if I have ever experienced one.