Food - To everything there is a season....and the season is spring! A time, much like New Years, for new beginnings. A time to start a new and allow the new blossoms of spring to bloom. It can also mean a few solid months of BBQ, picnics, camping, walks around the lake, etc. For those of us who live in Minnesota, the next few months are why we live in this beautiful state!
With Memorial Day only a few days away I am guessing there will be plenty of eating, gathering, and yes, remembering will be done.
Dish - Death. We are certain that it will happen to all of us, and to those we love, but we hope it will be later, rather than sooner. We hope that we will somehow escape the heartache of losing someone we love. Unfortunately, escape is not always an option.
Today I attended the funeral of a friend. It was a funeral for a young man who was taken from this earth way too early - he was only 47! We said goodbye to a man who was loved by so many people.
As I watched everyone pay their respects and attend the service, I couldn't help but think how wrong all of this seemed to me, and I'm sure everyone around as well, that a child (children) should have to say goodbye, let alone give the eulogy, to/of a parent they love; any more than a mother, father, brother or sister should - it's just plain wrong! But this family did so in a way that would have made their father, son, brother, or sister proud!
"To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal ...a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance ...a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to lose and a time to seek; a time to rend and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak; a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace."
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
"I see trees of green, red roses too.I see them bloom, for me and you.And I think to myself... what a wonderful world.I see skies of blue, and clouds of white.The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself, what a wonderful world..."
Rest in Peace Mark Allen Gladhill, 47.
Embellish - Love the one your with!
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Food: is it better when it's prepared by someone else?
FOOD - Is it all in our mind or does food taste better when it's prepared by someone else?
I'm not talking about Mom's cooking. We all love our Mother's cooking (here is where we need to tread gently, it's Mothers day tomorrow). That is until she starts getting up there in the years, doesn't cook as much and doesn't notice things such as expiration dates, mold, or a foamy layer that now tops the partially frozen ice cream. ('Sorry Mom.' Yes, it will inevitably happen to all of us, I'm sure.).
I'm talking about going out to eat at a bonafide restaurant. Where even something as simple and mundane as a salad can be, now somehow tastes like an exquisite delicacy from another country.
Whoa, ho, ho, it's magic, you know. We don't know how it happens, it just does. We can look for a slide of the hand, something up the sleeve, behind the ear, under the table...in the end, it really doesn't matter...we just have to believe that it's so!
I guess that is the thrill of it all; its magic, and who doesn't like a little magic in their life? I do.
Dish - Testimony 'from grave'? Just when you think you've heard it all, you hear some more.
Drew Peterson has been charged with killing his 3rd wife (yes, 3rd wife, sadly means there is a 4th wife).
Wearing a red jump suit, Peterson, 55, displayed his cuffed hands and told reporters: "Three squares a day and this spiffy outfit. Look at all this bling.".
I have a feeling after his 3rd wife, Kathleen Savio, testifies 'from the grave,' he'll be getting more than "3 squares and bling."
Embellish - All that glitter is gold!
I'm not talking about Mom's cooking. We all love our Mother's cooking (here is where we need to tread gently, it's Mothers day tomorrow). That is until she starts getting up there in the years, doesn't cook as much and doesn't notice things such as expiration dates, mold, or a foamy layer that now tops the partially frozen ice cream. ('Sorry Mom.' Yes, it will inevitably happen to all of us, I'm sure.).
I'm talking about going out to eat at a bonafide restaurant. Where even something as simple and mundane as a salad can be, now somehow tastes like an exquisite delicacy from another country.
Whoa, ho, ho, it's magic, you know. We don't know how it happens, it just does. We can look for a slide of the hand, something up the sleeve, behind the ear, under the table...in the end, it really doesn't matter...we just have to believe that it's so!
I guess that is the thrill of it all; its magic, and who doesn't like a little magic in their life? I do.
Dish - Testimony 'from grave'? Just when you think you've heard it all, you hear some more.
Drew Peterson has been charged with killing his 3rd wife (yes, 3rd wife, sadly means there is a 4th wife).
Wearing a red jump suit, Peterson, 55, displayed his cuffed hands and told reporters: "Three squares a day and this spiffy outfit. Look at all this bling.".
I have a feeling after his 3rd wife, Kathleen Savio, testifies 'from the grave,' he'll be getting more than "3 squares and bling."
Embellish - All that glitter is gold!
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