#is this something and if it is i hope it's not coming across pompous slkfjdf

[flockrest]

it is very important to me that cooking is communal, as so many things are, with rito village. it is very important to me that there is only one kitchen shared between this entire flock, where time spent preparing and creating food — already a process underlined by love and connection and cultural homage — is made all the warmer when you can be joined by anyone at anytime. gripping my knees at the open air quality of it all because you are cooking with everyone, and eating with everyone, and it's a shared intimacy of we are alive. we keep each other alive.

( now contrast that with the imagery of a rito who purposely seeks solitude in cooking, in eating, as he does with everything...the pot at the flight range is there for convenience, but is it convenient or is it essential when you spend more time there than in your own aerie? and when you eat out there, beyond your nest, sharing meal-spaces with warriors like you because you have to, do you wonder if this is like the we are alive you might feel back at home? or is this we keep each other alive in the barest definition? maybe it's the same, if only for the way you feel too out of place )