Venus, the land, the local

via Alicia Kennedy's No Meat Required

If my-in-between-work-and-parenting times on Mondays are for cooking heavy pots of beans or curry, filled with leftover fridge-whatever from the week before, my waning hours on Wednesdays are for trips to the local grocery, a large, weathered pine building off Rockfish Gap Turnpike that stocks its shelves with in-season fruits, vegetables, grains, and a…