Imagination. Determination. Creation!

- She treats the crew on the Vatt to stroopwafels on her birthday

- she misses riding her bike.

- she sometimes blasts zoutelande or froukje when she's still awake at night

- Her favourite food is kibbeling, closely followed by hutspot

Penguin Rush Hour Mural (Sally Callmer), Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

here is my chimkens

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

It's very good, and was prescient for a lot of the early days of the covid pandemic. I found myself returning to it often in the first couple of years because of how steadfast it was in its hopefulness.

Last year she wrote a novelette, "The Year Without Sunshine," which attacks a similar problem in a similar way; instead of pandemic, this one is about the aftereffects of a distant nuke or a massive volcano explosion (it doesn't say), which has churned a great deal of dust into the air, causing massive damage to society and agriculture. The story covers one neighborhood, pulling together to keep each other alive--not through violence, but through lawn potatoes and message pinboards and bicycle-powered oxygen concentrators.