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the angel strides across the land in this oil painting

Angel Gabriel

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White Roses on Yellow.
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White Roses

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Sunshine

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On Top of the Hill Yellow Roses. There’s a song On Top of the Hill Yellow Roses. There’s a song I like by Mickey Hart about being on top of the hill- “sweet voices from the past- of my family and my friends.” The day after I turned forty, Steve’s brother died. We do not want to be in conversation with the medical examiner, but here we are. His tragedy was long, and by the time we knew what happened, the damage was fully done. We are sorry, Corey. We love you.  I made this painting of birthday roses from Steve. Nana’s favorite flower is the yellow rose. Mom and Dad brought us to the florist to help pick flowers for the funeral. They were lovely, but the whole business, it’s just, it’s hard. It’s hard to love and lose. Steve tells me new old thoughts by the fire, and I dream of tidal waves washing away buildings, dreams of undertow. Our little ones, so happy and fresh, jump on the couch, even though they’re not supposed to, and we don’t stop them, even though we’re supposed to, because we want to hear them laugh. Keep laughing. I was going to make sharp clean roses, but my heart feels sore, so they are soft ephemeral roses, sort of there. Corey said recently that he thought often if his mother, Sandra Rose. I was with her lovely soul as she departed 12 years ago yesterday. A friend messaged Steve in the breaking dawn shortly after he got the news about Corey. “I saw your Mom in my dreams last night. She was radiant. She didn’t say much, but she wanted me to tell you that she was here.”  #roses #yellowroses #forty #thehill #mickeyhart #ontopofthehill #lifeanddeath #eternity
Meal idea involving cauliflower I learned from The Meal idea involving cauliflower I learned from The NY Times cooking emails. Chop up one head of cauliflower, toss with olive oil and salt and roast at 375 for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and put cheese, chopped kalamata olives, and capers atop the cauliflower, then bake for another 20 minutes. Serve over noodles or greens. Fry an egg and place on top. Garnish with as much chopped parsley as your fellow diners can tolerate. Make this, and no one will know you’re tired of making dinners. They’ll think it’s your favorite thing to do! 
PS Thank you, Carolyn, for your hens’ eggs! Always yummy. @triba_family  #cauliflower #capers #freerangechickens #parsley #dinnerideas #dinner #nytimescooking
Yellow Roses beginning Yellow Roses beginning
Do people need simple food ideas? Something obviou Do people need simple food ideas? Something obvious? So, Sarah @redfirefarm gave us a carrot tasting to try, so I roasted all the varieties at 400• and made a tahini sauce for dipping. Here’s something unappreciated about tahini: it’s a great emulsifier, which means it can hold a creamy sauce together. For tahini sauce, blend a half cup of tahini with less than/ about a half cup of: water, lemon juice, apple cider, garlic,and splash maple syrup, salt. Add more water slowly to thin if necessary. I stir fried the leftover rice and mung beans with a few eggs to make fried rice. Sesame oil in the pan first, then soy sauce or whatever alternative for flavor. There we have it. You know, it really bothers me that so many American kids are malnourished. To feed a child is to build the home they will live in their entire life- the teeth they will chew with, the brains they will use, the eyes they will see through. I buy cornflakes and pudding mix so I’m not trying to get fancy on you, but I do think we are missing a crucial cultural piece- reverence for the vulnerability and sanctity of the growing child. When we watched the Super Bowl, there was a bad commercial referencing violent crimes and I told the kids to hide their eyes. “Is it dinosaurs, Mom?” Yes! And they are very scary, so cover your eyes! Later my big guy said, “They shouldn’t put scary things on the screen! What if a 3 year old was watching?!” Impressions. Wish our world had the time to notice each impression that is made upon a child. Oh I wish. When I was with the Missionaries of Charity in the Bronx at age 19, I kept staring at the billboards and the mesmerizing sights of NYC. The sisters reminded each other loudly, so that I could hear, that we must keep reverence with our eyes. At the time I thought that was a little far reaching on behalf of right living, but now I see that they were right. Be the boss of what we consume nutritionally, emotionally and sense-wise so the internal structures grow sturdy. Or something like that!  @steve_a_munn 
#redfirefarm #carrots #bangor #carrottasting #tahini #emulsion #whole #missionariesofcharity
Now that Tom Brady is demonstrating that plant-bas Now that Tom Brady is demonstrating that plant-based diets are the stuff of champions, here’s my cool lunch😄. I read a few years back that if you want to elevate your cooking, you’ve got to make sauces. SAUCES! This is one I learned from the cookbook Balaboosta. 1/2 cup olive oil, parsley or cilantro bunch, cardamom pods, salt, 4-10 garlic cloves, dried red pepper, all blended. Some roasted sweet potatoes made into fries, and split yellow mung beans with rice. Yellow mung beans are a quick cook, so that’s nice for lunchtime. I like a blended greens and oil sauce because it warms the bones a little better than salad, which, in this winter, is like eating air conditioning for me. 🥶 From an Ayurvedic perspective, our digestive fire is the strongest and most concentrated in the winter, so from that perspective, this is the time to go full on with fat.  #ayurveda #mungbean #rice #balaboostacookbook #garlic #oliveoil #plantbased #sweetpotato #tombrady #lunch
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