Do you ever see something you wish you hadn't?
That's how I feel after recently coming across photos of starving children during the 1993 famine in Sudan.
The pictures assaulted my middle-class comfort. They made a mockery of my complaints about fixing my kids food they might or might not eat.
With the shocking and upsetting photos stuck in my head, putting kale and bananas in a smoothie for my kids feels like a sacred ritual instead of a burden.
The extra pounds I've put on become weightless.
How privileged many of us are. And still, we don't have to leave our first-world countries to find hungry children.
I hope if you are experiencing food insecurity this summer, you use the resources available to you without shame. How wonderful that those safety nets are there. Any of us could find ourselves in a position to need them.
And for those of us fortunate enough to have enough, I hope we will share information and keep sharing so that no one, child or adult, has to go hungry.
https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank
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