perpetually empty

on the conundrums of conventional fools

Conventional wisdom tells us that farmers and bakers eat well. Remarkable fools know otherwise. How do the foodmakers go unfed?

I know a couple in this situation. She farms, he bakes. She complains that they never have any bread in the house. He complains that they never have any eggs, chicken, beef or pork - despite raising all of these animals.

I asked them why and their response floored me. They are twice conventionally foolish. He never brought bread home from the bakery because he was such a great baker he sold out every day.

I sell it all before I think about bringing some home. Once I even set a loaf aside. Someone came in and was disappointed. I couldn’t stand it. I sold them the loaf. I need to get rid of this damn people pleasing that I do all the time…

Her story was similar. Eggs, aside from those used in the bakery, were all spoken for by the neighbours. The chickens sold before they were fully grown. Even there, she tried to keep a couple of meat kings for them. Sadly, a fox…