Voir Diary

Excerpts from The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Intro

• In 2018, Americans spent $701 billion at supermarket-style grocery stores, still our largest food expenditure by a wide margin; there are 38,000 of these stores across this land, and the average adult will spend 2 percent of their life inside one.

Washington’s plastic bag ban is well-intentioned. In reality, it’s been a huge waste.

I know that I’m not the only one that relies on old shopping bags to fulfill a second life as garbage bags. In fact, grocery stores and restaurants have long been a primary source of trash can liners for many of my friends and family.

To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins: Select Quotes

Elegy for Angela

[Verse 1]

Ruined day syndrome

becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as my mood is irreparably soured. And it turns out that things are less likely to go well when you go about convinced that they won’t.