Something opens our wings. Somethingmakes boredom and hurt disappear.
Someone fills the cup in front of us.
We taste only sacredness.
-Rumi
Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label joy. Show all posts
Dance.
Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance, when you're perfectly free.
-RUMI
a BELATED macro/mosiac Monday:
The bountiful harvest: August is such a FULL month... These hot peppers one of many delights!May you fill your bellies with colorful greens and the sweet taste of ripened fruit!
Summer Love
I encountered the "blue screen of death" a few weeks ago, lost everything on my computer (deep sigh) and spent a few weeks off-line, realizing how quickly the priviledge of having a computer has (on both a personal and cultural level) become necessity. The weeks without weren't so bad actually, especially in the fine company of my summer love (who would be the taste of a blueberry of course!)... But I am glad to be back and I look forward to once again visiting the many blog-places I've come to love!
Baking Bread
I love to bake, probably because my first "real" job was working in the Harvest Barn at Gould Farm (an amazing place, with many stories... for another time, perhaps) where I learned how to knead dough and braid Challah, make GIGANTIC batches of Zucchini Bread and sweet Pumpkin butter, blend basil leaves into delicious pesto, grind dried mint for tea bags, bottle vinaigrettes for sale at the Roadside Store and, my favorite, churn fresh cream into butter (with a mixer of course...) Rising at 5 am to milk the cows, then showering to pick up my work crew and begin a days work of processing fresh veggies for winter, baking bread and packaging Gould Farm specialities for sale--these were some of the best days of my life...
My favorite bread recipe these days is a spin off from The Tassajara Bread Book's Oatmeal Bread. My measurements aren't exactly precise and I add ground flax seed and wheat bran to the whole wheat flour and oats so it turns out a bit different every time, but always warm to the belly and tasty with a dab of melted butter, occasionally a spoonful of jam...
(a pause and much love for the woman who taught me to bake. Her gifts have stayed with me...) 
Mulberry Muffins
To add to the joys of moving, we've discovered we have an abundance of Mulberries and June berries in our back yard! For these muffins, I used a recipe for whole wheat-blueberry muffins as my base, substituting honey for sugar and adding lots of ground flax seed and wheat germ in addition to the whole wheat flour. They ended up a bit burnt (perhaps 400 degrees was a bit high!) but delicious, especially with a mixture of brown sugar and cinnamon crusted on top.
What discoveries have brought you joy today?
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This is Lily, my dearest and most playful companion... check out this week's contest at iHeartfaces
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