Seasonal

Pumpkin tea and tropical xylitol gum. The combination is like a weird sugarfree dessert.

Pomegranate and rather crispy brussel sprouts. Does this excite us?



Out-of-season

This is not the season for it, but for some reason I've been thinking about this cool custom I learned about earlier this year. Maybe the reason I was thinking about the cascarones is because of a weird dream I had. There's been some issues with acquiring a new roommate and the empty room takes it's financial toll...well, in the dream, the empty room was not an issue, and I was talking to b.f. about being excited that a baby was coming (not referring to a baby I was having or anything) and then it was like, oh gosh...taking care of a baby is a lot of work....this is possibly because a cousin of his going to have a baby soon. I saw him at Easter. The cousin was saying that he and his girlfriend went to the N.G./AFP Halloween show last year because she's a big fan...he wants to write about music...I got a picture of him getting an egg cracked over his head...they are both about 19 or 20 or so...I didn't think of it before, but it kind of makes you wonder, where do some of those Easter traditions came from?

Acorn

clover

leaf and seed

wood

Halloween dress

poetry

Nevermore

I went by this scarecrow contest last weekend and thought "Nevermore...could that be a reference to...?" 

As if the universe wanted to deliver some kind of spooky answer, a girl with a soccer shirt that said "Palmer" on the back floated by at that exact moment...Just kidding, she walked the ground like a mortal being. Should have snapped a picture of that as well...

Crow White

Nevermore

Fall Fun

To be or not to be...

Special Olympian Writes Powerful Letter to A...
preferably not like her

Playing With Pumpkins
more like the pigs

V asks P

V: So how does this strike you?
     Dear penis-centric society, why don't you go fellate yourself...
P: I don't think that would go over too well.
V: Really? How come?
P: Because it's impossible.
V: Are you sure?
P: Yes. There has already been a movie made about this topic. It's called Clerks.

A lot of people are tired I think

“I’m tired of Linda McMahon telling us she’s pro-choice and then tell us that she’ll vote against every pro-choice measure which will come before the Senate,” Murphy said. “You’re not just pro-choice because you use the word.”

-- Democrats stresss women's health

oh, life's medical ironies

A: I looked at your twitter feed and noticed that place I was thinking about calling for an appointment this morning had to get evacuated for a bomb threat

B: good thing you didn't go there

Cute & happy

Puppies kept lost boy warm

I want the world to stop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_and_Sebastian_(Japanese_TV_series)

for younger self

younger self needed to read this!
going to bars vs. staying at home and reading
 "book conservator asked..."
tumblr of book conservator
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also...itemized lists that can make one laugh...

Healthcare on Facebook

Kendall

posted October 28, 2010 at 5:55 am

This is coming from a doctor whose employer probably charges $10.00 for a tylenol? perhaps this doctor is a bit detached from the real world, and should practice in a society cosmetic office, considering the level of empathy he has for his patients. Notice he did not mention a thing about donating any of his $150,000.00 annual paycheck(average) to nutrition education in poorer areas, he just whined about it. What an ass.
gold teefs in the ghetto-40.00
small jankitty tatoo in the getto- 25.00 x 7
urban fashions at crappy retailer- 40.00
cell phone-150.00
dope ass jordans at crappy retailer-90.00
altogether less than this doctor makes in two days as an er physician….that’s whats wrong with health care
if they weren’t in it for the money, doctors who actually cared about patients would be practicing medicine.

Aw

The grandmother effect
in whales

It's life in a body

ailments can be challenging
sometimes it's time to kick it with S. Halpern
health is wealth...
hopefully, the people elected to office will have some empathy for women's health issues...

Nat'l Library of Medicine

Capriciousness

"Sail" fan video by Nanalew

"A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self" by weepingprophet

musique - 80s,90s, 21st century

80s
Sowing The Seeds
90s
Battleflag
2000s
Young Folks

Books dipped into yesterday evening

Random Family - the characters are definitely interesting
The Emperor's Children - the characters are disappointingly boring

Random Family got some good reviews. So did The Emperor's Children, but I just cannot get into the latter. I have been known to savor some "boring" ("Jamesian") books, but it is not the one for me right now.
Maybe some other time.

It's not too early to plan for Thanksgiving...

With a handy copy of Modern French Culinary Art. 

Page 435 is not some kind of dessert in a puff pastry.

It is Vol-Au-Vent of Fillets of Sole.

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Is page 623 a model of a hot air balloon that has crash landed atop a tray of pink cold cuts? 

Not quite. It is Ham glazed with Aspic. 

Aspic, aspic, aspic, where have you been all my life?











Most interesting in the last 15 minutes

Mysterious elk shaped lines! In Russia

"Women don't take forever to pee. It's other chicks who make us wait. We have absolutely no idea what we're doing in there, and we look at one another in the bathroom line like, What the hell? Then, to keep ourselves occupied, we play with one another's boobs." -- Faith Salie in Esquire

Random memory: Being 10 or 12 years old on an airplane and feeling really, really tempted to ask the male flight attendant for a copy of Esquire.

Cute song & video in park

Stories...

Forest family

Father & daughter

Growing up

Hug a tree?

"Send out Roots, Enter the Heartwood, Branches Reach for Heaven, Stand in the Stream and Sway in the Wind"

https://reikienergyhealer.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/chi-kung-and-the-healthy-tree-hugger/

"Based on my continuing luck with the moles, earthworms, and cabbage worms, I decided I would contact the Deva of the Japanese Beetle. Much to my astonishment, I touched into an energy that I can only describe as that of a battered child. It was an energy of defeat, of being beaten into submission. Yet it still had mixed in with it anger and a strong desire to fight for its life.

I was told by the deva that what I was experiencing was not devic but from the conciousness of the Japanese beetle itself. I needed this experience in order to understand what our relationship with the beetle had already done to it....

I then addressed the issue of the corn. Still hoping to salvage some of it, I decided I would try to raise the vibration of the individual stalks--perhaps the ears would fill out in spite of the Japanese beetle. I spent three days putting my hands on each stalk and LOVING it. At the end of three days, nature had had enough of this nonsense and I was told to leave the corn patch and not return 'until further notified.'

Devas and nature spirits do not respond to what they call 'gooey, sentimental love.' Their love is a love of action and purpose, and it is that kind of active love they desire from us. (Once while giving a workshop, I was asked to accompany several of the leaders of this particular community to a bush. It was a rather large bush, and it didn't take a horticulturalist to see that it was dying. It seems they had recently transplanted the bush, and, as part of their transplanting process, several members in the community would form a circle around it each evening, join hands and send the bush love...LOVE. The bush had the nerve to die on them anyway. I was asked what they should do. I walked up to the bush, looked at the soil around it, checked the leaves, then turned around and said, 'Try watering it.' That's love in action. Not to be confused with loveless action. Love in action is appropriate action done in a caring spirit.)"

--Behaving As If The God In All Life Mattered, pages 147-149

Possible Books "To-Do" List

This one certainly piqued my interest this morning: My Abandonment - P. Rock

Other intriguing-sounding books (some are in this list):
Stoner?
Beautiful Ruins?
A Fortunate Age?
Random Family?
The Emperor's Children?
Big Machine?
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Beautiful Ruins images...

Cats & Art

Famous Paintings Improved by Cats

random merriment

I have no idea why, but for some reason this was very amusing to me:
Here you go Johnlockers
I e-mailed it to a friend of mine who watches Sherlock Holmes.
Should I start watching it too? Perhaps I need to incorporate more cinnamon into my diet? What does it mean...

Feliz cumpleaños con retraso

To celebrate health
A post-birthday birthday song
Ana Tijoux - 1977

Mil Novecientos Setenta y Siete