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They say flash-frozen vegetables are more nutritious than fresh vegetables. Seems unlikely until you think about it—as beginnings often go. But vegetables lose nutrients the moment they’re harvested, and life leaks from them in phases along the ride to your local grocery chain.

I once cried upon passing a semi-truck—and I know what you’re thinking, “she’s clearly looney”—but it was a dreary day out, and I simply didn’t want to live in a world where people drive bulky machinery at every hour of every day. There are other roads that might have started my upheaval and I had just passed a factory moments previously, but in the end I was able to laugh as I cried—a sight indeed.

 

The frozen vegetable thing makes me think about someone’s comment on a Facebook post the other day. They were talking about Bernie running for president in 2020, how they wished they could freeze him in time and bring him back in fifteen years. How America simply isn’t ready for someone so progressive, and what it means when the word progress isn’t something we’re interested in. Or perhaps we have different ideas of progress, like for some, it may be the Carousel of Progress—the Walt Disney amusement park ride. Chocolate sundaes and a familiar theme song to make the cushioned rotating theater a little more comfortable. A narrator passes through, borrowing a quote from the antithesis of a good time, and they all humped the American dream together.