 Does democracy measure our virtues — or merely tally fears, emotions, and popularity? Democracies Are Born and They Also Bite the Dust Standing on a barren hill above Athens, the professor waves his hands, announcing “This is it. The world’s first known democracy.” We look around. No buildings. No institutions. Barely even a rock to place a plaque on. It’s really not even much of a hill as it is a dusty, dirt patch — a nearly forgotten stoop where the citizens of Athens, wealthy men, would gather to make decisions collectively 2,500 years ago.  All History Happens Somewhere Right before we arrived, we were looking down at a small valley of rubble and ruin. “That’s the prison where Socrates was killed by popular vote,” the professor said, glancing away — equal parts warning and shame. It’s a reminder that everything happens in place — up on a hill, down in a valley. All history is written in the cracks and crevices of subtle geographies. Our society built ghostly white capitals and courthouses in imitation of those ruins, as if democracy lived in marble domes and colorless columns.. But the rule of the people has always lived elsewhere: in the hearts of village dwellers and city denizens, in how and what they know and care about, in the streets and squares where they risk everything to make the invisible visible.  The Mechanics of the First Democracy The professor described the first Democracy with the plainness of an uncle walking you through changing a tire: “The men would shuffle in, the proposal would be read from an elevated space. A vote was taken. If it passed, it would be made law immediately.” “This is where they voted to kill Socrates,” he warned, “It was a decision they eventually came to regret.” To atone, they erected a statue carved by the same sculptor who memorialized Alexander the Great — emblazoned with the saying We Killed a Just Man. Out of that remorse came reform. The Athenians introduced a rule to delay executions, a cooling-off period for the heat of emotionally-charged democratic decisions. It was like the antiquities version of a waiting period before buying a firearm — don’t vote in the heat of passion, or somebody could get hurt. The Seat of Honor — and the Dead Dog The Socrates episode, as the professor elaborated beyond the familiar headlines, grew more complex. Originally, the proposal before the Athenian assembly of citizens was to punish Socrates for corrupting the youth. When asked what punishment he thought he deserved, the jurors likely expected him to propose exile or to pay a fine. But Socrates doubled down. He insisted he’d done nothing wrong, that he had served the city by awakening its consciousness and holding it to account. So he declared he deserved a seat of honor in the Prytaneion — the sacred civic hall where heroes, Olympic victors, and distinguished citizens were fed free for life. That audacity enraged the jurors, and they promptly sentenced him to death instead. Ironically, not long after, the Athenians gave that same seat of honor to a dead dog — one who had heroically swam from Athens to an island to battle the invading Persians. The dog died of exhaustion upon arrival, but his sacrifice captured the city’s heart. Democracies, then as now, wobble between reason and emotion. They disdain the virtuous and celebrate those who cloak themselves in valor — ever eager to scapegoat the honest and praise the hollow. The Trial That Planted a Grudge In contrast, Socrates had angered many. During the Peloponnesian War, Athens had fought and won a naval battle, but a storm prevented the admirals from retrieving the bodies of the fallen — a sacred duty in ancient Greece. The eight generals were tried together for treason, and Socrates, as presiding citizen, was tasked with overseeing the trial. Because it was illegal to try a group collectively, he refused to bring their deaths to a vote. This angered many, and though six of the generals were eventually executed anyway, Socrates had done what he thought was right. His integrity had cost him the crowd’s favor, and their resentment would come back to bite him. What Athens reveals is that democracy is a tool – powerful, but morally neutral. Self rule amplifies the conscience of a society, or its cruelty, the voice of the people can only express what’s beating in the majority' s chests. A Counting Mechanism, Not a Moral Compass So we live in a system that puts honorable men like Socrates to death — and provides presidential pardons for Diddy and Crypto con men. As I listened to these stories of ancient Athens, I tried to reconcile them with the fragile state of protests back home against Kings and the fight to preserve our democracy, and people’s deep faith in it. I asked the professor, “So democracy has no moral imperative?” He rubbed his elbows, lit another cigarette, and looked toward the city below and asked me to expound. “It’s not conscience,” I said. “It’s just counting?” His eyebrows unfurled. “Yes,” he said quietly. “Exactly.” That struck me — because those fighting for democracy in the U.S. are fighting for more than democracy itself. Not just rule by the people, but a society that’s more caring, loving, and unwilling to leave people behind. If Athens showed how democracy can lose its conscience, Birmingham, Alabama in the 1960's showed how it can find it again — not through reasoned debate, but through courage, choreography, and place.  Awakening the Moral Majority: When the Street Becomes the Stage In Birmingham, the “whites only” and “colored” neighborhoods collided at a Woolworth’s lunch counter — and the whole nation watched. On the evening news, images of children blasted by fire hoses and attacked by dogs appeared alongside footage from the Vietnam War. The juxtaposition equated the two — domestic brutality and foreign conflict — and forced a moral reckoning on a country that had long looked away. Activists had placed children in harm’s path to awaken the conscience of America — a plan they hatched in a funeral parlor among the already dead. They sent their troops to war at the lunch counter, faced the police, the dogs, the hoses of oppression. They patched up their soldiers in the doctor’s home office — a neighborhood war of martyrdom, street theatre that moved a nation and reshaped its politics. In ancient Athens, democracy silenced its dissident. In Birmingham, what couldn’t be reasoned through debate was shouted, sung, and televised until the nation’s conscience cracked open. Within months, President Kennedy called civil rights a moral imperative, and a year later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act — proof that demonstration can move democracy. How We Lost the Plot The Founding Fathers of the United States were afraid of mob rule, of rash democratic decisions made by a riley crowd, so they diffused government power across a spectrum of branches: judicial reviews, bifurcated legislatures and guardrails, but criminals, schemers and cheats find ways to break through any barrier. Now we’re in a place where decisions like Citizens United, the aggregation of power, and the stoking of fear have created a zeitgeist where Americans fight each other while blaming immigrants, the very lifeblood of the country, for their pain. We’ve elected politicians who say one thing and do another: who claim inflation is down when it’s up, who promise tax relief while raising tariffs, who alienate allies, devalue the dollar, and dismantle the safety nets people rely on. All done democratically. Just as Hitler was elected through his appealing arguments of exceptionalism: to blame others and give Germany its rightful day in the sun. Manipulation, hidden agendas, and cultural emotions stampeding over facts is the winning formula that too often carries the masses. Placemaking as the Antidote So no, democracy alone won’t save us. As Winston Churchill said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” What will save us is spreading a culture of caring — building a society where health, housing, food, a clean environment, and factual understanding are foundational agreements. Placemaking can help. We need places to gather, to see one another’s struggles, to create empathy and shared access to the good life. Without those places, it’s too easy to “other” people — to blame them for their circumstances, to call them lazy, and to think they’re leeching instead of contributing. Trust Is Cheaper Than Bureaucracy As Elinor Ostrom showed in her Nobel-winning work, Governing the Commons, traditional societies managed the commons because they were in touch with one another. If someone abused the system, the community addressed it directly. We need those soft-power solutions again — because when a system becomes obsessed with keeping out cheats and undesirables, it collapses under its own paranoia. You see it in placemaking: when benches are removed to deter the homeless, they also erase rest for the weary, pause for the passerby, connection for the community. In trying to hide social ills, we don’t heal them — we only sweep them under the rug, and in doing so, we bury the society itself. In systems of care, we do the same. In my food security work, I’ve seen the contrast between free-flowing, community-run kitchens in the Pacific Northwest and the bureaucratic labyrinth of food access in Los Angeles, where I worked with a woman living in her car as she navigated endless proofs of poverty so a well-paid administrator could approve or deny her benefits. Why spend so much on administration when trust — and investment in a local, good-food economy — could help so many more?  Reclaiming Democracy by Design PlacemakingUS recently hosted a webinar on Democracy + Place — exploring how civic design, community imagination, and shared stewardship can renew democratic life from the ground up. We heard ideas like civic design hackathons to prototype ways of making public spaces more democratic, mapping inequities in how and where people can access them, youth beautifying underpasses and planting trees instead of waiting for the state. And we learned of a physical embodiment of a city budget in a public park in Philadelphia, where people can literally walk through the abstractions of policy — making governance visible, tangible, and open to interpretation. These are small, radical acts of re-democratization. They remind us that democracy lives beyond the marble halls, in the parks, plazas, and streets where people feel empowered to shape their own surroundings. Seeing Each Other Again As a democracy, we can mobilize and make our values known through how we vote. But when people are nationalistic, uninformed, or in denial about climate change and the economy, we fall into mob rule — no matter how many levers of power exist. We need to fundamentally shift toward caring for one another and creating neighborhoods and cities where people can see each other — and believe in each other’s virtues. We need to rebuild the civic stage — the dinner table, the park bench, the meeting hall — where democracy rehearses its better self. If not, we’ll keep putting our best to death and exalting the dead dogs of myth above all else.
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 Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? In the Pacific Northwest, we encountered what seemed like a revolutionary idea — communities growing food, cooking and sharing it for free. There were no labels or limits to entry. These didn’t feel like soup kitchens or food banks—these were community gathering spaces for a hot, dignified meal. As someone who works in food and direct service, I contrasted this simple solution with the stigmatized and gatekeeper-intensive way most food benefits are administered: you need to fill out paperwork, demonstrate need and then receive coupons or a gift card to use for the purchase of eligible products. While there’s some good ideas even in this over-regulated approach like Market Match: a program that gives you double your food stamp vouchers at Farmers Markets to be used on fresh fruits and vegetables, and food box prescriptions which provide insurance dollars for healthy whole food boxes, the clunkiness of this system means many who need and deserve the benefits don’t activate them. That being said, the federal administration is intensifying the barriers for able bodied citizens, which shows a narrow and uncaring view of who needs food and the benefits of safety nets and free community hubs. This all seems counterintuitive when you take into account that 90% of the $4 trillion spent on US healthcare goes towards treating preventable lifestyle diseases. One wonders how much waste is created in oversight and benefits left on the table to offset the specter of abuse this rigamarole is meant to diffuse. On the Road to Resilience, we find free food flows amongst friends in third spaces and is a baseline of community good practice, giving and gratitude.  The Open Table on Whidbey IslandA few minutes before the 1pm closing, my host on Whidbey Island whirled by the Methodist Church where an A-frame sandwich board announced “Free Lunch.” We plowed into the parking lot and ran in the building, evading the rush and arriving just in time for the last scrape of the soup pot for today’s meal. The savory lunch was crafted with donated goods from local gardens and partially purchased supplies from a restaurant supply store. We got to interview the chef who told us the inspiration for this place was Dorothy Parker’s Catholic Worker and the Non-Violence Movement — that peacemaking is an everyday activity beyond civil disobedience. In the room were retired teachers, seniors, a homeless person, a schizophrenic and a few friendly folk who just like to socialize and connect. We were shown around the room, which had several monumental artworks all in the style of Picasso’s Guernica, and equally representative of massacres and uprising including of the local native people and another of the current affairs in Palestine. One doesn’t necessarily think of a soup kitchen as a place for intellectuals, philosophical debate and conviviality but this place felt like the hippie lunch annex of the Bohemian Club. The chef ladled out his philosophies along with the ginger broth, dispelling wisdom, like how kind makes kind. Some women came asking if they could use the space to host a knitting event and then later offered to clean the carpet of the oversized room. The group also had been helping contribute to a bake sale for Palestine through a roadside market they baked cookies for.  Growing for Food Banks in Port TownsendWhen the call went out in Jefferson County for nutrient-dense fresh foods for food banks, local gardeners answered the call. There are now around a dozen gardens producing nearly 20,000 pounds of food and over 1,000 eggs per year. The gardeners help feed people while helping themselves, learning, socializing and upskilling while they work in communal food growing. The group is as clever as they are kind: innovating ways to grow and deliver produce using electric bikes, and forming the Wild Rovers, who support school gardens in the summer. Cheer them on as they quietly chant their mantra, “We grow. We gather. We give.”  The Kitchen at Joe King Park on Hornby IslandIs it something about Island folk that they care about each other a little more than those of us on main land? The Hornby Island Education Society organizes a free lunch three times a week at Joe King Ball Park, an athletic league facility built by members of the community. That seems to be the ethos on Hornby Island, by the community and for the community. This program calls out to many types of people, those with disabilities, seniors and even singles and tradespeople. It positions itself as open to anyone who needs help finding nourishment. During COVID, they also started a hot meal delivery program which continues to this day. Furthermore, the Comox Valley Food Bank operates a satellite food distribution at the same location so folks can shop a shipping container of fresh and shelf stable foods that they bring home for later. Produce at both the food bank and the Kitchen lunch program are partially grown on the island by the community at a gorgeous co-managed Hornby Island Community Garden.
 These free lunch programs tied to local gardens beautifully connect locally grown, seasonal produce—literally the best food you can get, with those who need it most. Often grown, cooked and served by the same community members who use the service or lovingly provide it for their friends and neighbors. As one lithograph hanging in the Free Lunch on Whidbey Island room says, “If you have more than enough, build a longer table.” 
What happens when militarization at the edge seeps into the heart of our country?  At the federal border in Tijuana’s Las Playas, the wall cuts across the sand into the Pacific Ocean like a razor. To the South, there’s a buzz of energy — families strolling the malecón, music and murals spilling toward the surf. On the U.S. side, silence. A steel scar bristling with cameras, robotically monitoring a crowd made mostly of children splashing in the tide. Incidentally, I arrived here on the Fourth of July, when the border looks more like a bleacher. A Mexican crowd hugged close to watch the night sky bloom with luminescent bursts above San Diego. In Spanish, fireworks are called fuegos falsos — false light. How apt, I thought. The explosions on the other side rang hollow this time, ghostly echoes from a country stripping back our rights, trading care of our countrymen for consolidation of power, and stealing breadcrumbs from the poor to feed the rich. The false lights of freedom fading across a darkening sky.  This slice of land pressed between two nations is called Friendship Park — a name that harkens back to 1971, when Richard Nixon’s wife came here to dedicate it. She asked Border Patrol to cut the barbed wire so she could walk across and greet people from Mexico, telling the crowd, “I hope there won’t be a fence here too long.” Families picnicked together, exchanged food, and embraced on the sand. For years, the border here was little more than sticks and wire — a place where you could mix and mingle with loved ones on both sides.  But in the 1990s, we slid the other way — from friends to foes. Operation Gatekeeper was launched to shut down nightly crossings through San Diego neighborhoods — thousands of people moving visibly across canyons and streets, sparking local complaints and fueling political fire. California’s Prop 187, which tried to deny immigrants access to public services, had just passed. The Clinton administration, eager to look tough, embraced a new Border Patrol strategy called prevention through deterrence. The idea was simple: wall off the city, flood it with agents, and force migrants into the desert and mountains, where the landscape itself would do the dirty work. It didn’t stop migration — it only made it deadlier and more costly. To build the new barriers, the U.S. adaptively re-used surplus landing mats from the Gulf War as fences layered on mesh with floodlights and cameras. What had once been a picnic ground of mingling families hardened into a militarized frontier. This doctrine was sold as border “control.” But the rhetoric was always hollow. Americans weren’t lining up for the jobs migrants filled, and by turning a blind eye to the exploitation those workers endured, the country was saving money — subsidizing entire industries on the backs of people it refused to acknowledge. Now enforcement is creeping inland. What began as a blockade at the border is invading the streets of Los Angeles — ICE agents goosestepping through public parks, racially profiling abuelitas, smashing windows and disappearing people. They leave broken families in their wake, importing the same fear and separation tactics used at the wall right to the doorstep of America’s cities. Much of this history of this place was new to me. We the people are kept ignorant — lulled by soaring rhetoric and media soundbites, fed abstractions about “control” and “security,” never really understanding what those words look like written in steel on the sand. The history of the border seems to be held closely here, cries for humanity emanating from real people, unheard beneath the shouting of politicians, xenophobes, and the fear of a few bad actors flooding over the greater good. My local guide, Ricardo — an activist with forty years of keeping his head down and his chin up, watching over and building community alongside this prison wall — unraveled the story as he showed me around.  First, we came upon the Iglesia Fronteriza, a binational church organized to build bridges between people on both sides of the fence that divides them. The service commenced with worshippers lifting songs and prayers toward the north. The distance of the wall buffer has grown over the years such that the only connection to the other side was a shaky, video connection through WhatsApp on a tía’s cell phone. The congregation pressed their foreheads and palms against the steel. It felt painful — the longing to be together, the ache of being held apart by something so physically imposing, distant, and obscure, a structure that kept us ranked and filed apart.  After brief remarks about religion’s universal teachings of love and kindness to neighbors, the formality broke into a shared meal. Trans migrants, many of them fleeing oppression in their home countries and now staying at a nearby shelter — only to face further struggles and threats of violence here — still found the strength and grace to offer vegan tacos with spicy salsa to anyone who wanted them. I accepted a plate — and then another (a little ashamed, but they insisted) — washed down with homemade horchata before setting off to get acquainted with more of the small gestures defying the divide.  In Las Playas, Tijuanense are proud of the border wall's bright murals, blooming with color — playful, human, creative. Yet on our side of the fence, the surface is stripped of expression: dull, institutional, oppressive. It confronts me with another border I’ve stood at — the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing Korea, one of the tensest places on earth where World War III could erupt at any moment. Across that chasm, South Korea is like Mexico — families separated by war hang ribbons with the names of loved ones, even spending holidays under barbed wire just to be physically close to relatives they hope are still alive on the other side. Shockingly, we seem more like North Korea: austere, watchful, fearful — pressing our nation’s thumb down on our extended family.  Evoking another global echo, a fragment of the Berlin Wall stands on display in TJ. It pulls me further back — to Auschwitz, where I once saw names carved into the brick bunks. The internees had almost everything taken from them — family, freedom, even their clothes — but not the act of marking their presence: I was here. At Las Playas, the south side of the border wall carries that same insistence. Names, murals, slogans layered over steel — a refusal to disappear, a reclaiming of human dignity in a place built to erase it.
Walking along the fence feels like stepping through a hall of mirrors. At the DMZ, we call the north’s barbed wire and guard towers tragic. We shake our heads at concentration camps and say “never again.” And yet, at our own border, standing on the Mexican side looking north, you see that same oppressive architecture of walls and watchtowers. It’s hard to escape the conclusion: we may feel we’re on the right side of the wall, but the wrong side of history. The sights along La Frontera offer a firsthand glimpse of grassroots goodness, starkly contrasted by the rule of force and finance. The long arm of the law asserting itself as troops patrolling the beach with machine guns — a move Ricardo said only fueled violence. Meanwhile, extractive capital interests bend the government to bankroll their schemes: tax dollars egregiously spent to dig up riverbeds for casinos and luxury housing where nature never allowed it — projects that make no sense, except to speculators who cash in and slip away before the rains come. When these imposed dynamics distort reality on the ground, people stop looking to government for support and turn instead to one another. At the native garden planted here by Ricardo and the Friends of Friendship Park, he explained that philanthropy has helped — but it often comes with strings attached. “They come with their own ideas,” he warned. He pointed to a planter box overgrown with mint, tended by an Egyptian sojourner who wanted nothing more than herbs for tea. It reminded him of a time funders approached a migrant orphanage with the idea of aquaponics. They dreamed of gleaming towers of vegetables, red-orbed tomatoes bursting from shiny technology for the ribbon-cutting. Ricardo had seen too many of these flashy projects built, photographed, and abandoned. Instead, he asked the women running the shelter what they actually needed. Their approach was far simpler: tea and herbs. They grow quickly, they’re reliable, and they carry both the nutrition and the memory of home — medicine for the body and the heart. Ricardo’s long career in placemaking at the border began iteratively — first with beach clean-ups and shoreside classes about the watershed. He peeled back the ugly political layers to reveal the beauty of the land itself: the natural systems that sustain us and that we mutually belong to. He mapped out the organizational ecosystem for me, which sounded just like any strong community blueprint — a non-hierarchical network of groups: some replanting native species, others sheltering migrants, others offering salvation. The Friends of Friendship Park provides the backbone anchor, a trickle of funding, and a community eye on the place. Walking with him, through all the hugs and greetings, you could feel how embodied this work was — the shared result of on-going stewardship, artistic endeavors and concern for one another.   Chicana writer and feminist Gloria Anzaldúa once called this border an “open wound where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” Ricardo still tends that wound in his way — watching both the corn he planted and the youth he once taught grow, carrying seeds forward in garden boxes and open-air classrooms, both wedged between the imposing wall and the gaze of a gun-slinging guard. The dominant narrative here might be steel and surveillance, “bad hombres” and barbed wire. But underfoot, Ricardo and his friends persist like dandelions stubbornly growing in the cracks — sipping mint tea, whispering prayers through the fence, and delighting in the laughter of innocent children playing in the churn of the sea. As storm clouds crackle above America — with border police moving from the edges into our cities, as our federal government strips back rights and dismantles vital programs — we can still take hope from these unlikely placemakers. Even in the darkest corner of our country, where we turn our backs on our brothers, there are gardens growing green, murals messaging resistance, gifts being offered, and memories being shared. Each act is a drip of water, barely noticed at first, but over time carving valleys, smoothing stone, eroding mountains. It is this quiet persistence that raises the tides and shapes the world. For the walls may separate our bodies, but the surging water will wash the wounds clean.
What if your favorite restaurant was in your neighbor’s kitchen?  For our first stop on our Road to Resilience summer trip, we popped in for dinner at Vida Kitchen, one of the first legal home restaurants in LA under the new Micro Enterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO) law. Our host, Wendy Farajpour, and her mother, a Guatemalan immigrant, folded empanadas while her Persian husband, the in-house butcher, ground fresh meat and spices into sausages. Before arriving for supper, I joyfully plucked mulberries from a tree in front of a local high school. A sweet and spectacular fruit, you’ll never see these juicy jewels at the grocery store because they're too delicate to transport. But at our zero kilometer meal, it made a heroic showing atop Wendy’s homemade baklava cheesecake. This is a whole different recipe from the usual restaurant setup. With many hands in the kitchen, local produce and scratch cooking being shared, home restaurants are redefining dining—from something showy to something shared, from business to belonging. 
Though Los Angeles County’s MEHKO program only began at the end of 2024, there are already over 100 home restaurants up and running. This is the work-from-home revolution meeting the local food economy—turning bedroom communities into kitchen parties and bringing life to residential neighborhoods that lack businesses, jobs, and places to gather. MEHKOs might be the missing ingredient in retrofitting suburbia with the climate and social goals Carlos Moreno lays out in his “15-Minute City” concept, and that the C40 Cities initiative is pushing by connecting climate adaptation and equity. Home kitchens opened to the public, help repair what zoning and auto-oriented development broke in cities and society: they shorten the distance we travel just to clock in at a central business district, and they enliven the uninteresting places we live—housing pods with nowhere to gather. By allowing these homemade hangouts, we’re saving time, money, and carbon while producing joy and connection closer to home. MEHKO lowers the barrier to starting a food business. It invites us to share in each other’s rich cultures through food and familiarity. And it makes life easier for immigrants and entrepreneurs who would otherwise need to secure permits, equipment, and leases—or go underground to do what should be most natural. As tourism slows and automation trims the hospitality labor force, laid-off restaurant workers might find fertile ground right in their own neighborhoods—serving fresh food with friendliness. MEHKO may be fresh out of the oven, but it’s the entrée course following the appetizer of decade-old Cottage Food Laws, which made it legal to sell shelf-stable goods like jam, cookies, and pickles from home. Down the road from Wendy, Alyssa Arellano runs what might be the world’s smallest bakery—set against the industrial sprawl of the West Coast’s largest seaport. Outside her window, you can see supertankers unloading global goods—undercutting local production and poisoning the air—while she lovingly dimples world-class focaccia right here on the block. She trained in Thomas Keller’s French Laundry kitchen—one of the most elite restaurants in the world—but now she bakes from her humble hearth in a converted garage, offering extraordinary bread that’s made locally and shared accessibly. Her mother is diabetic and wears a glucose monitor. Together, they’ve perfected a 72-hour fermented whole wheat sourdough that doesn’t spike her insulin. Alyssa’s baking is a direct response to the industrial food system that’s made so many sick. Beyond selling her bread—she’s hosting backyard pizza parties with chickens running through the crowd. When we visited, the kids went wild chasing them, and the grownups sat back smiling with a slice. 
Wendy and Alyssa represent a new frontline for food and family in the neighborhood, where people come together to eat, talk, and solve the world’s problems around the table. The meals are affordable without the overhead, and the experience lingers—into laughter, comfort, and connection. It’s the kind of feeling Donald Appleyard describes in his Livable Streets study—where, in the right neighborhood context, the sense of home turf stretches past your front door and envelops the whole block, like the smell of fresh bread wafting from a kitchen window.
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