Shout out to my local #Ypsilanti #foodcoop for continuing to grow and thrive: this graph from the 2024 annual report is super impressive, remembering the worrisome straits the coop was in a decade ago.

Not that "up and to the right" is _per se_ the goal of a cooperative, but the sales reflect offering a broader selection of food to more people while also increasing employee wages 22% faster than inflation, increasing local sourcing, and increasing on-site production, all of which are good.

Reading "How Infrastructure Works" by Deb Chachra.

In an early chapter, as she discusses the mostly invisible but highly interconnected infrastructure networks that support our personal use - of energy, communications, goods - is this printing blot.

And the way it broke me out of the flow of reading to think about the process of printing the book is just a (chef's kiss) illustration of her point.

Found some new-to-me murals in an alley on the far side of town this evening, while rambling to kill time during my kid's scout meeting.

Worth the wet feet--that alley was soggy.
#ypsilanti

Roadside fungus from earlier today

(Shaggy mane maybe but I don't forage)