nourished

Her latest book is “A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community.”

Route 191 bends east here, passing by blooming cotton fields nourished by the Gila River before the terrain becomes rockier and steeper.

Don’t knock it: It’s helped keep Homo sapiens alive and nourished for the last 190,000 years or so.

It is frequently nourished by the support of both Democrats and Republicans, and it is often welcomed by rural communities of color needing help.

I do sense a spiritual and theological hunger that in our “least religious city” is being fed in some faith communities but more likely nourished by book clubs, in yoga groups, in conversations with friends on a walk around Green Lake or sitting at a table in the local pub.