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Early this past summer I had another dream about a hidden room:
My husband and I move into a new apartment which is much smaller [...]
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“Come along inside… We’ll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.”
-The Wind in the Willows
I love the tradition of tea in the afternoon, especially high tea. Something about taking time to slow down, sip [...]
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For the season of Easter I made a commitment to practice resurrection of the body, both my own body and the Earth’s body. It has been a good process as I continue to discover places of my own healing and how they are woven together with the healing of the greater body.
As a part of this [...]
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In the last couple of weeks we have watched Blood Diamond which takes place in Sierra Leone and The Last King of Scotland which is about Uganda. They were both heart-rending films. I also have been reading A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmeal Beah which addresses the Sierra Leone story from the perspective of a boy soldier [...]
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Last night we invited four of our neighbors over for our Sabbath evening meal. Below I share two new recipes I used that turned out really well and were not hard to make. We feasted on good food and wine and then laughed for hours playing board games. Our neighbors are delightful people, not folks we would probably get the [...]
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It is just my husband and I to share our Sabbath meal tonight. I have been very tired the last few days because of some hormonal stuff, so I got the ingredients for two of my favorite, easiest, and most comforting dishes with the recipes below. The chicken is so simple and satisfying. It is adapted [...]
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Hazelnut Chicken Breasts with Cranberry Cherry Sauce
Prepare the sauce at least 3 hours ahead. For the cranberry cherry sauce, bring 2 cups marsala wine and 1/2 cup dried tart cherries to a boil in a saucepan. Simmer about 8-10 minutes to reduce the liquid. Stir in 12 oz cranberries (fresh or frozen) and 12 oz [...]
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I am back from vacation, and wouldn’t you know it, the trip home exhausted me! I always feel like I need a vacation at home to recover from my vacation away. Maybe it’s because I am such a nester, or maybe it is because there is always a pile of things left undone when you return. [...]
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With summer approaching, we also starting to receive a bounty of wonderful fruits and vegetables. Farmers Markets in Seattle are opening again this month and I am eager to go tomorrow to the one in my Capitol Hill neighborhood and browse the wonderful array of locally crafted foods and talk to the people who actually are [...]
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