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shel
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I used to live with someone who couldn't handle crowds and couldn't handle going to protests. They wanted, so badly, to be in the streets and fighting alongside everyone else, but they just couldn't handle it any time they tried. They'd had some very traumatic experiences from previous protests, and it just became this huge barrier.

So they'd bake zucchini bread. It just-so-happens that protests tend to happen when zucchini is in season, for whatever reason. So, what they landed on, was baking zucchini bread. While everyone else was out in the streets of Springfield facing down cops and shouting until their throats grew horse, blue and red flashing in their eyes, ears ringing, escaping arrest... This friend of mine would bake zucchini bread, lots and lots of zucchini bread. All these little loaves of zucchini bread. When everyone got back from the protest, they would go around to everyone they knew who'd gone and bring them a loaf of warm, fresh-baked, zucchini bread. We were college students at the time, living on-campus, so it was easy for them to just walk around to everyone's little apartments and dorms and bring them a loaf.

When your throat is scratchy and raw and your mouth is dry from shouting long after you ran out of water, when you can barely speak, there is something about warm soft moist zucchini bread that is so perfect. So comforting, emotionally and physically, acting a salve on your throat and mouth; each bite followed by guzzles of water.

And it became so expected that it became fuel. It allowed you to go back out the next night yet again, knowing you could handle it, because you'd have zucchini bread waiting for you when you got home. Movements take all kinds of roles; and some people have to take on the important work of baking zucchini bread. You don't need as many people baking zucchini bread as you do people marching in the streets, but by G—d you absolutely need someone who bakes the zucchini bread, or whatever else it is they can do to take care of people after each battle, help them recover, and help them keep fighting.

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