Seminar and cuteness

Dav, who is out of town for a conference, emailed me today that he forgot about a special Long Now Foundation talk tonight that was sold out. As a member, he had one precious ticket; did I want to go? It was:

"Deep Agriculture: Resolarizing the Food System to Fight Climate Change and the Health Care Crisis" Michael Pollan at the Herbst Theater

I emailed our lovely neighbors - can you babysit even though totally last minute? M had plans to go out with friends, but J kindly said, "no prob," so off I went after a hurried after-work-dinner-pajama changing-run over to the Regenbogens-hour. This event was in such demand, that if I didn't show up for Dav's ticket by 7pm, they'd give to someone else.

I'm glad I made it. Lots of good information about just how crazy, illogical, unhealthy, and unsustainable our current agricultural system is. He explained how fundamental reform of the current food production and culture is essential to deal with our dependency on fossil fuel, soaring health care costs, and greenhouse emissions. He read a quote from Obama who understands the link between these 3 major issues and food production - but there needs to be a bigger movement for Obama to take action for changes and fight huge corporations who benefit by the current system. 2 quotes I liked:

Food is the original solar technology.

We are currently eating oil, and spewing carbon gas.

Podcasts are here, and they had a few folks twittering live.

Best part though was coming back to get Tesla, and hearing how Tesla was. The girls got along well, J read books to them in bed, when J asked if T was sleepy and ready for bed, she replied yes and went to "her" room, and sang to herself while J finished reading to Fia. And...T went peepee on the potty for J!!

Then J showed me the cutest picture ever of Fia and T together, lined up with the beer : )

We are SO LUCKY to have such amazing friends as neighbors...[original picture from J here]