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Opening Up! Let’s Practice
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ~Deepak Chopra Let’s break out of our comfort zone! Let’s break … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged comfort zone, cooking, dancing, energizing, experimenting, fresh, movement, newness, opening up, possibility, practice, quotes, uncertainty, vitality
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Welcome: The Priceless Gifts of Hospitality
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
“Dining with one’s friends and beloved family is certainly one of life’s primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.”~Julia Child Julia’s wise, evocative words have been echoing for me lately…
30 Days Of Astonishment: Being Cooked For
“…cooking done with care is an act of love.”~Craig Claiborne Day 3 on astonishment: BEING COOKED FOR After an intense dance class, I dragged myself home in the dark: a drenched, and sore, dishrag. It was almost too much to … Continue reading
Sharing The Alchemy Of Baking
alchemy: a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation or combination I’ve loved to bake, and cook, for as long as I can remember. There’s something ineffably alluring about handling and combining ingredients to conjure deliciousness that we smell, savor, touch … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Santa Hat/Christmas, Soulful
Tagged Alchemy, baking, Christmas, cookies, cooking, Food, Generosity, giving, heartfelt, holidays, Inspiration, intention, magic, positivity, practice, quotes, savor, sharing, soulful, sweetness
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The Gifts of Being Discombobulated
“…the eyes of my eyes are opened….”~e.e. cummings Off kilter. Askew. Unsettled. Unbalanced. And, yes, discombobulated. We’ve been living in the Land of Topsy Turvy a lot more since we moved homes last summer. There has been the torrent of … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged aliveness, awareness, beginner's mind, Change, complacency, cooking, discombobulated, gratitude, humanity, humility, Inspiration, mindful, miracle, moving, moving house, newness, off balance, off kilter, possibility and expansiveness, presence, quotes, risk taking, topsy turvy, transition, unfamiliar
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The Grand Adventure of BAKING
“A party without cake is just a meeting.”~Julia Child Is there anything as glorious as awaking to the aromas of something tasty baking in the kitchen, especially on a cold, dreary and drenching morning as this? Well, of course there … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Creativity, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Soulful
Tagged adventure, adventures in the kitchen, aromas, baking, coffee cake, cooking, creative acts, flexibility, Food, fun, Generosity, have fun!, improvisation, Ina Garten, Inspiration, Joy, Julia Child, quotes, recipes, rolling with it, sorceress
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lair
it will seem to be a kitchen unremarkable and outmoded the clutter shuttering so you may not notice her fierceness lurking dancing under the display the bowls spooning, the fleshly ghosts of every meal aswirl, but she is there unfurling to … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, poetry, Soulful
Tagged cooking, Dance, expansive, fierceness, free, Inspiration, kitchen, lair, morsel, mother, nourishment, poetry, soulful, swirl, unfurl, unsquelchable, wild
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one mermaid’s six word memoir
love dances luscious oceans of possibility
Posted in Cooking/Food, Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged baking, cookies, cooking, fireworks, Food, Inspiration, Joy, leap, Love, luscious, memoir, mermaid, Ocean, passion, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, six word memoir, soulful
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Turning Toward the Sun: It’s Inside Us
“People often have the notion of saving the world by shifting it around, by changing the rules. Any world is a living world if it’s alive–and to bring it to life, be alive yourself….”~Joseph Campbell Ah, yes–the expansive and lustrous … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged alive, aliveness, baking, change the world, coming alive, cookies, cooking, Dance, flowers, heliotropic, Inspiration, Joseph Campbell, Kindness, light, mindful, passion, positivity, quotes, radiance, soulful, sun, vibrancy
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Tasting Memories….Cookie Recipe Included :)
“Food is memories,” the hero of the lovely film, “The Hundred Foot Journey,” states. Before the wise words were barely out of his mouth when we watched the film the other night, I was reminded again why cooking and baking are … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Creativity, Inspiration, Soulful
Tagged baking, Christmas, cookies, cooking, family, flexibility, Food, history, holidays, Inspiration, Joy, lore, memories, mindful, quotes, recipe, rituals, soulful, storyteller, taste
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