Last month a friend got a phone call in my driveway and her face folded. I did not ask for details. I said come inside. I put water on for tea and started onion in olive oil because soup is what my hands know when my mouth does not.<\/p>\n
Feeding people in crisis is not fixing. It is witness. Keep portions small. Let them eat or not eat. Wash a dish while they talk or sit silent. Biscuit sat on her feet like he had been trained for grief, which he has not, but dogs know.<\/p>\n
I learned this after funerals, after bad election nights, after my own hard chapters. The table holds weight when chairs are pulled close.<\/p>\n
Keep broth in your freezer. Keep your door unlocked emotionally if not literally. Love feeds sideways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When words fail, I make soup. It is not a cure. It is a bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertaining"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}