Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hiya, hiya – Happy Almost April! To quote Han Solo, “We’re all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?”
I’m listening to Joe Cocker, singing about friends, which is never a bad thing, the sun is shining, and my spirits are high. A dog walk is imminent. Life is also a bit weird, honestly. We are full on spring after the least wintery winter of my Colorado memory. It snowed three times, two of which were quite substantial, and the other, a lovely sugar coating that melted in an instant. Life in the wild weather west, my friends.
As our usual good luck would have it, we continue to eat delicious, home cooked meals, love each other the best way we possibly can, and exercise our bodies strong.
The highlights:
Pizza! We are loving our oven and the perfect crustiness of it.
Do you know about the trick where you whip instant coffee crystals, sugar, and water into the most delectable foam? I don’t understand the chemistry behind it requiring instant, but I am on board, especially when, on an unseasonably warm afternoon, we are craving something a little bitter, a little sweet, and cold, cold, cold.
When we lived in Portland, and well before my intestines rejected wholesale any minimally processed garbanzo bean in a wail of agonizing pain, I LOVED the Caravan Platter at Dot’s Diner. It very closely resembled our homemade version above, but with the addition of pita, and damn, was it good. This was equally so, maybe even better with the addition of cilantro, and made my heart positively soar. And the garbanzos? Absolutely impotent after much soaking, instant potting, and peeling.
Finally, a roasted grape salad with chicken and feta, because what better use for the wrinkly ones at the bottom of the bowl?
And now, the garden! We’ve spent two lovely mornings cutting back the old and gathering yet more leaves to make room for all that is lovely and colorful. Happy Spring!
Edited to add one adorable Juper-Dog:
Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.
Eliza Tabor
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Open the door of nature; enter inside; forget yourself; think nothing; be the nature itself and now you are a heron, a river, a rosehip, you are the shadow of a fox, sweet fruit of a tree, you are the silence of a lake! When you forget yourself, when you stop thinking, you become everything, you become the universe itself!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts.
Mary Baker Eddy
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