Apr 3, 2010
winter retreat (unedited)
awake hours before dawn
and deep in to the night
the low sun passes over the snow
and every day the wind rearranges the drifts
covering my footprints in the field
while I sit on my cushion, wrapped in blankets and breathe
owls hooting outside my window
which I have opened, despite the cold
just to get a little more crisp air--
when you have time to smell it for hours
you realize just how starving you are
for every breath
I got lost in the snow, once
dazzled by the beauty of a hemlock tree
it was so, so quiet
and so in the quiet I tried an experiment --
what if you only had one more day to live?
it turns out,
that in the face of an imagined death
(less wrenching than the real thing, but still, I made an effort)
I love the blazing sweetness of sunlight
and the warmth of a lovely thought
and every breath turns out to be so overwhelmingly...
...wanted
it made me realize that when I convince myself that
our lives are too complex,
our existence too manufactured and removed from nature,
our purposes impossible to believe in,
it is just that I have momentarily forgotten
that everything in this world was made
to help people be juuuust that much more comfortable
so that they might be juuuust that much more joyful
oh, and we do get it wrong
but it's just so quaint and lovable
that we try at all --
it cures me
and deep in to the night
the low sun passes over the snow
and every day the wind rearranges the drifts
covering my footprints in the field
while I sit on my cushion, wrapped in blankets and breathe
owls hooting outside my window
which I have opened, despite the cold
just to get a little more crisp air--
when you have time to smell it for hours
you realize just how starving you are
for every breath
I got lost in the snow, once
dazzled by the beauty of a hemlock tree
it was so, so quiet
and so in the quiet I tried an experiment --
what if you only had one more day to live?
it turns out,
that in the face of an imagined death
(less wrenching than the real thing, but still, I made an effort)
I love the blazing sweetness of sunlight
and the warmth of a lovely thought
and every breath turns out to be so overwhelmingly...
...wanted
it made me realize that when I convince myself that
our lives are too complex,
our existence too manufactured and removed from nature,
our purposes impossible to believe in,
it is just that I have momentarily forgotten
that everything in this world was made
to help people be juuuust that much more comfortable
so that they might be juuuust that much more joyful
oh, and we do get it wrong
but it's just so quaint and lovable
that we try at all --
it cures me
Feb 20, 2010
Valentine
Blustery day on Nahant - clouds rolling in, air salty, birds wheeling overhead
A few days later, a different beach (Crane's), unseasonable warm and windless, walking through deep, soft dunes and admiring craggy trees and the utter blue of the ocean
A few days later, a different beach (Crane's), unseasonable warm and windless, walking through deep, soft dunes and admiring craggy trees and the utter blue of the ocean
Feb 7, 2010
home-made bagels and hummus
Step 1. Make, rise and cut dough. It looks just like regular bread dough, but it's a little denser, and it contains a bit of honey.
Step 2. Shape dough in to a bagel shape.
Step 3. Put bagels in boiling, sugared water.
Step 4. Flip bagels.
Step 5. Drain bagels on towel.
Step 6. Put toppings on bagels!
Step 7. Bake bagels! First one side, then the other.
Step 8. Make delicious hummus.
Step 9. Make delicious sandwich. (Too bad we couldn't grow the veggies, too!)
Step 2. Shape dough in to a bagel shape.
Step 3. Put bagels in boiling, sugared water.
Step 4. Flip bagels.
Step 5. Drain bagels on towel.
Step 6. Put toppings on bagels!
Step 7. Bake bagels! First one side, then the other.
Step 8. Make delicious hummus.
Step 9. Make delicious sandwich. (Too bad we couldn't grow the veggies, too!)
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