Recently I had a dream in which I was in a small house surrounded on three sides by water. I was talking with a couple (they were not known to me in real life, but casual acquaintances in my dream) about our broken food system. As I spoke about how the last year and a half has made me aware how vulnerable and centralized our food really is, I opened the door of the house to glimpse an enormous wave cresting. I watched as it moved past the house we were in and broke toward the coastline, just past my visibility. I knew there were people in the path of the wave, but could not see or hear their fate.
Then, I looked up and a second wave came into sight. It was much larger and higher than the first wave, and I had the thought that it was too enormous even for someone to dive through its base and survive. Again, the wave broke behind the house on the shore somewhere outside of my view; while I could not see its impact, I could hear shrieks and cries.
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