Killmonger + Sisko + Kendrick + Kamala

hi from Ojai

Checking in from Southern California’s hot Ojai Valley. It’s quiet and weird here. I need it, because I’m exhausted. How’s your summer going?

I’m sleeping a lot, being meticulous with my supplements and water-drinking, doing some writing, and mostly adhering to my Aunt Vicki and Uncle Calvin’s plant-based diet. They switched over in their seventies, and they are serious about it.

She made me a lemony avocado toast this morning with sautéed baby portobello mushrooms. Delish. There are random paper cups of cherries around her house. As a part of her kitchen sink, my aunt has a filtered-water faucet. Lunch today was at The Farmer and the Cook. I had an oniony lentil-based veggie burger and an iced coffee thick with sweetened condensed coconut milk. I gave my Cairn, Key, the chopped Honeycrisp apples from my side salad. My uncle had a bean burrito. My aunt had cold soba noodles with shiitake. We all sat in the sun, chomping away.

My Aunt and her Cal grow peppers in their back yard, as wel…