Summer Dinner for a Friend
Torte of garden greens, herbs, and garlic with spicy pesto; slow-cooked beans, cucumber and cherry tomato salad.
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Down by the River
I was almost home from work, enjoying the wind and clouds and trees, when I saw a neighbor who was about to take his dogs to a little park down by the river. The dogs had a good time playing, and I really appreciated the opportunity to go down by the river.
Comfort Food
Don’t underestimate the power of comfort.
Here, kimchee with a few bites already taken
Later this evening, before or I after I sit for meditation, I expect to do some restorative yoga.
Thoughts About Wearing a Sari
It is my understanding that unless I wear a sari, I will not be able to go into some of the places that are on the itinerary for the trip to India I will be joining. “Just think of it as playing dress-up,” suggested my sister when I told her the idea of wearing a sari perturbs me. It is not just feeling strange in foreign dress and having to expose that vulnerable fold of flesh at the waist (I have never even owned a bikini because of my discomfort in exposing my waist). What is unsettling me is that to witness what the men can witness while wearing comfortable clothing, the women must agree to wear confining, complicated, and cumbersome clothes. And the sari has come for centuries with the expectation that the woman demurely follows behind doing what she is told by the designated man.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Train Ride Home
It is hard to believe that having arrived home only two weeks ago from my trip to India that I have already gone on and returned home from another trip. As I looked out the train window at the landscape that still holds my interest though I have seen it hundreds of time, but yet is restful in its very familiarity, I thought about how strange and wondrous it would seem to one newly visiting from a place like Tamil Nadu, especially the rural areas.
