{"id":4497,"date":"2015-02-20T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2015-02-20T03:22:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:22:33","slug":"things-i-love-thursday-chilis-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/things-i-love-thursday-chilis-on-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Love Thursday &#8211; Chilis on Wheels, maybe other things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve had a busy &amp; short week this week because Ontario&#8217;s new Family Day holiday that happened this past\u00a0Monday. JC and I spent the weekend mostly inside, with the exception of going to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/veganinyourcity\/timeline\/story?ut=43&amp;wstart=0&amp;wend=1425196799&amp;hash=-1112961192941322517&amp;pagefilter=3\" target=\"_blank\">Sadie&#8217;s Valentines Day prix fixe diner<\/a> (which by the way, was the first time this month we&#8217;ve gone out to eat &#8211; it&#8217;s a whole new world.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Douglas Coupland Exhibit at the ROM by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/16562290776\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8628\/16562290776_6acaf37b64_z.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Coupland Exhibit at the ROM\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like last week, my obsession with puffins has not gone away, if anything, I started looking for more information about them, including a visit to the Royal Ontario Museum to see if they had any puffin information. (&amp; also\u00a0to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rom.on.ca\/en\/exhibitions-galleries\/exhibitions\/douglas-coupland-everywhere-is-anywhere-is-anything-is-everything\" target=\"_blank\">Douglas Coupland Exhibit<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Douglas Coupland Exhibit at the ROM by MeShell, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/16587072691\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7381\/16587072691_7ae067f476_z.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas Coupland Exhibit at the ROM\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Chilis on Wheels<\/h2>\n<p>A\u00a0friend shared the story of <a title=\"Chilis on Wheels Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chilisonwheels\" target=\"_blank\">Chilis on Wheels<\/a> today and it was easily the nicest and best thing I read all day Michelle Carrara and her son delivering warm chilli to hungry people in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m especially touched by this because she&#8217;s working with her son to help people without losing sight of the larger systems involved in inequality and hunger.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chilisonwheels\/photos\/a.533962206745322.1073741825.533961746745368\/533962216745321\/?type=1\" data-width=\"466\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chilisonwheels\/photos\/a.533962206745322.1073741825.533961746745368\/533962216745321\/?type=1\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chilisonwheels\">Chilis on Wheels<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She identified a hole in the existing support network and is actively working to fill it. That she&#8217;s using vegan chilli to fill that void doesn&#8217;t hurt either. She&#8217;s currently doing a fundraising campaign so if you&#8217;d like to support it, <a href=\"https:\/\/fundrazr.com\/campaigns\/0w1y5\/sh\/64Su49\" target=\"_blank\">you can find it over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, but I hope you&#8217;ve had a great week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve had a busy &amp; short week this week because Ontario&#8217;s new Family Day holiday that happened this past\u00a0Monday. 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