October Cooking

Cooking for the past week, a birthday gift for a little girl who lives downstairs and a little doodling, too. Happy Halloween!

On the Menu

What I’ve been up to in the kitchen yesterday and today. I used the end slice of bread and cut it into tiny squares, placed some beneath each chicken breast and baked. Without any added ingredients, the chicken basted the stuffing and the results were scrumptious!

Intervals Are Important

Intervals are important.

Being a writer is not a path. Writing is a career that chooses its minions and does it deftly, with aplomb. Typewriter keys being pounded upon, the scratching of quill against parchment, whilst scribbling within the confines of lamps or by candlelight. That yearning which comes to tempt the tamped-down and silent feral longings within, are clear signs you have been chosen … compelled to purge your innermost thoughts, the inklings of a story or the musings of your mind. Once you have acknowledged feverish angst and equally, the delight felt through your explanation of words, compounded to form the muddled mass into a clear picture, then you will feel the freedom of expelling this force which comes through you. A writer is an instrument … a channeling of the universal mind.

This is why time-outs are necessary and time spent behind the veil of solitude is like a soothing balm to quench the thirst. Writing can ravage the heart of a person to the point that the unplugging from the world is the only way restoration can be achieved. Solitude rushes in and the healing begins.

Intervals are important.

Unfolding Future

 I would have to say that the new days ahead are unfolding before us, the same as any flower opens her petals to the morning sun … with hope and expectation.

"photo by: Alasam"

Andy Rooney Historical Treasure

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Sundays have always been special to me. Evenings spent watching television usually included the CBS show, 60 Minutes. It is filled with current events throughout the world, which are exciting, thrilling, fashionable, trendy and sometimes frightening. They wrap up their show by featuring Andy Rooney, with his five minutes of telling us Americans precisely what he thinks about whatever topics attract his attention this week.

The thing I admire the most about him is that he speaks his mind, and with Andy Rooney … everyone unmistakably knows where they stand. I bet if you had spinach caught between your teeth that he would be the first to mention it. He doesn’t mince his words, he chooses them with care for full impact. He is a master of the essay and has a head filled with good common sense. He’s the kind of man you can ask for advice and expect to receive the best answer. In his comparative thinking he looks at all sides of an argument and decides the best course to take. When he leans into the camera we wait to hear what he will say next.

For anyone who is not familiar this man, I would urge you to visit the show’s website and view a variety of his videos, in order to see for yourself just how his opinions carry weight with the rest of us. He is amusing, matter-of-fact, serious, comical and sometimes shows his disgust with any subject that displeases him. We learn from him and he shows us the power of the written word … when spoken with a sage voice. For decades he has caught and held our attention with his variety of outlooks, his gray bushy eyebrows, sweet smile and mild manner. He is a true gentleman and never raises his voice in order to be heard. He’s never had to.

60 Minutes is a good news show, but Andy Rooney has made it ever so much better. He gained our trust and never betrayed it. He will be sorely missed and even at 92 years of age, he holds in his hands, the hearts of the American people. Good-bye Mr. Rooney and many blessings from me to you. You are my Historical Treasure!