“When I’m writing, especially if it’s going well, I’m living in two different dimensions: this life I’m living now, which I enjoy very much, and this completely other world I’m inhabiting that no one else knows about.”
~ Jennifer Egan
It matters where you are now. This moment calls you to do something good in this space. In this space and time you have the opportunity to create something lasting, something special and perhaps put a smile on someone’s face.
“The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.” ~ Neil Gaiman
Last evening, near dusk, a large buck showed up in front of my home. It sported one antler. Soon, he’ll lose the other antler. They’ll grow back in time for mating season. Change is a constant throughout life. We can fight it, or we can roll with it and enjoy the changes as they occur. Always make the best of the moment.
Joe: “I asked my wife how she stays so calm when she is mad at me.”
Pete: “What did she say.”
Joe: “She said she stays calm by cleaning the toilet – with my toothbrush.”
Is Spinach More Nutritious Raw or Cooked?
It Depends. Boiling vegetables causes a significant amount of nutrients that dissolve in water – vitamin C, folate and thiamin (vitamin B1) – to be leached away. Steaming is much gentler on nutrients because vegetables don’t come in contact with cooking water. Dry cooking methods like grilling, roasting, stir-frying and microwave cooking without water also preserve a greater amount of nutrients than boiling or pressure cooking. Green vegetables such as spinach, beet greens and Swiss chard are high in calcium, but their high levels of a compound called oxalic acid binds calcium and reduce its absorption. Cooking releases some of the calcium that’s bound to oxalic acid. Three cups of raw spinach, for example, have 90 milligrams of calcium, whereas one cup of cooked has nearly triple the amount (259 milligrams). Cooking vegetables also increases the amount of magnesium and iron that’s available to the body.
Note: Raw spinach is still a powerhouse veggie.
If you can solve problems, make a situation better, you’ll always be needed.
In every good relationship there’s a bit dancing, of giving and taking. It’s not all me or all you, there’s a lot more of we. Those who know, know.
Love Has Crept into her Sealed Heart
D. H. Lawrence
Love has crept into her sealed heart
As a field bee, black and amber,
Breaks from the winter-cell, to clamber
Up the warm grass where the sunbeams start.Love has crept into her summery eyes,
And a glint of colored sunshine brings
Such as his along the folded wings
Of the bee before he flies.But I with my ruffling, impatient breath
Have loosened the wings of the wild young sprite;
He has opened them out in a reeling flight,
And down her words he hasteneth.Love flies delighted in her voice:
The hum of his glittering, drunken wings
Sets quivering with music the little things
That she says, and her simple words rejoice.
