Tea and Madeleines

"The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly,..."

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:49:46 -0800

““The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not…yet, I occurred.””

- Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah (via 1beauty)

"I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of..."

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:16:01 -0800

““I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.””

- Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 2: 1920-1923 (via 1beauty)

"There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart."

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:14:49 -0800

““There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.””

- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen (via 1beauty)

Blogut: These Poems, She Said

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:12:25 -0800

Blogut: These Poems, She Said:

blogut:

These poems, these poems,
these poems, she said, are poems
with no love in them. These are the poems of a man
who would leave his wife and child because
they made noise in his study. These are the poems
of a man who would murder his mother to claim
the inheritance. These are the poems of a man…

"How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades, not to..."

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:09:56 -0800

“

How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city—arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals—had all
one fine day gone under?

I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city —

white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is

this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to convey that what is gone is gone forever and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of

where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
and drowned it.

”

- Eavan Boland, Atlantis—A Lost Sonnet (via yesyes)

"Of course it was a disaster. The unbearable, dearest secret has always been a disaster. The danger..."

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:07:01 -0800

“Of course it was a disaster.
The unbearable, dearest secret
has always been a disaster.
The danger when we try to leave.
Going over and over afterward
what we should have done
instead of what we did.
But for those short times
we seemed to be alive. Misled,
misused, lied to and cheated,
certainly. Still, for that
little while, we visited
our possible life.”

- Jack Gilbert, Going There (via yesyes)

Las Casas Filipinas

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:05:42 -0700

Las Casas Filipinas

"I think I must have known you In another life I think our rocking chairs Used to rock together all..."

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:52:00 -0700

“I think I must have known you
In another life
I think our rocking chairs
Used to rock together all night”

- Hands Remember, Seabear

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:31:48 -0700

The Pompous Ass Words Web Site

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:30:21 -0700

The Pompous Ass Words Web Site

The Medina Arayat culinary tradition is embodied in Lucia,...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:18:49 -0700

The Medina Arayat culinary tradition is embodied in Lucia, their cook (above, left), a niece of Marc’s grandmother’s cook. Marc says that his family’s household’s dishes are truly ‘Slow Food’ and, in the same sense, Lucia is what I would call a ‘Slow Cook’.

Sitting at the kitchen table in February, I watched her prepare - with the help of a daughter and a daughter-in-law - some fifteen dishes over four hours (she had, of course, started long before we arrived at the house at 9am). She moved leisurely - circling, circling, circling the stove - lifitng lids to monitor contents, stirring here, adding a little something there, moving pans from high heat to low heat to no heat at all. Never rushing, rarely speaking, Lucia seemed in a trance, completely at one with her work, which seemed not work at all but merely an extension of her being, an action as unthinking as breathing. Knowing which dishes needed what kind of attention when, she cooked entirely by instinct, with the heart instead of the head - a state of kitchen ease that I’ve experienced perhaps thrice in all my years at the stove (those moments are so rare that I remember them vividly).

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:05:00 -0700

Calamansi Meringue Pie

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0700

Calamansi Meringue Pie

Nurses' Health Study

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:57:04 -0700

Nurses' Health Study:

The Nurses’ Health Study II was established by Dr. Walter Willett and colleagues in 1989 with funding from the National Institutes of Health. The primary motivation for developing the Nurses’ Health Study II was to study oral contraceptives, diet and lifestyle risk factors in a population younger than the original Nurses’ Health Study cohort.

"I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf"

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:48:00 -0700

“I CANNOT live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf”

- I Cannot Live With You, Emily Dickinson

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:41:00 -0700

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Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:38:33 -0700

The only 2 financial rules you need

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:25:00 -0700

The only 2 financial rules you need:

Inexpensive purchases are an easy mental hurdle to get over because they’re so small, it seems that they could hardly amount to anything. The truth is, these seemingly insignificant purchases can easily amount to, or exceed, that $200 you may be aiming to save.
If you spend $4 every morning on a latte, and $12 each workday for lunch, this adds up to $80 per week — for a grand total of $4,160 per year. If you earn $50,000 per year, that’s a full month of your salary. Do you really want all that money to amount to a bunch of coffee and Subway sandwiches?

Tipuana Tipu

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:20:35 -0700

Tipuana Tipu

Tujunga Wash restoration to deal with “urban...

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:07:50 -0700

Tujunga Wash restoration to deal with “urban slobber”