21 March

Calla Light. Pantry Food Of The Day: Toothpaste

by Jon Katz

Good morning. I’m off to start my volunteer work at the Cambridge Food Pantry. The food needed for today is Mint Toothpaste from Colgate, 6.3 ounces, pack of four, $15.84. The pantry ran out of toothpaste earlier this week. Thanks.

If you are interested in or can buy additional food items, search the wish list here. Thanks once more. You are doing needy people a lot of good.

3 Comments

  1. I wondered how long it would take you to get inside one of those calla lillies. you even have to disrespect and exploit flowers, for God’s sake. you can’t just take a photo of flowers like a normal person would, you have to insert that camera of yours inside it to expose the “sensual” parts, as you call them…do you ever wonder about yourself?

    1. No, Lily, you seem eager to do it for me I would find it stupifyingly boring and am a bit tickled that you are so interested in analyzing me. God help you; that’s a rough path. You don’t seem to have figured it out. You really think I wish to be normal? Who taught you to aspire to that?

      I can’t imagine wondering about you, Lily (I like the spelling); from your message, I wouldn’t know what to ask. My hope for you is that you find something meaningful to wonder about or write messages about—maybe look at the news for as long as you can take it, donate money to a good charity, read a good book, start a new blog, or call a friend and wonder about someone or something interesting. I mean, life is too short for both of us to waste our time on this. What is the point? Do you think I’ll read your message and hate my Calla Lilies? Are you too tough to love a flower? Do you think sending nasty messages to strangers while hiding behind a computer screen is normal, Lili? Perhaps so, in America in 2024.Sad. It’s not for me. I’m proudly abnormal.

      I admit that I find people who write snarky letters to strangers they don’t know interesting. I’ve been writing about it. Almost anything would be more interesting than my sensual relationship with a flower. P.S. What does this have to do with toothpaste? Could you tell us the truth? Have you been wondering about this for two weeks? That’s when I got the Calla flowers.

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