September 28, 2007
· Filed under Just Joey Bits
I have a long and convoluted relationship with food. My mother was somewhat of a health food nut back in the 60’s and 70’s. Ditto for me for a while when I attended Le Leche meetings and lived in West Lafayette. In college I thought my mission in life was to feed the world and jump into the Green Revolution. Left to my own bad habits and no revolutionary inspiration, I live on coffee, caramel cappuccino, granola bars and graham crackers and peanutbutter. About every six or seven years, my bad habits lead me to get kind of toxic and out of sorts. Sometimes I get sick, I’ve had a heart attack, sometimes I sleep for a month! So lately, I’ve decided its time for a detox, which for me, usually means the cabbage soup diet. Not that I follow it exactly, but it forces me to remember how much I like fruit, veggies, soups, plain chicken and fish. I am also rediscovering my relationship with Alexandra Stoddard and her book, Living a Beautiful Life, where she teaches her readers that making every-day rituals beautiful can enrich our lives. So cabbage soup plus LaBL has resulted in meals something like the above. I’d forgotten how fun it is to set a pretty lunch tray, choose just the right combination of my mismatched dishes and go outside to find something for a flower vase. This week I snipped a bit off a crab apple tree and I love the up-close and personal conversations I can have with this piece of nature while I eat my “diet” food!
September 28, 2007
· Filed under Just Joey Bits
One of the things I’m learning to love about chihuahuas is that they are so small they can sit with you, right up where you are working. Some days I get lonely for a bio animal, so this week Leia’s mommy let me borrow her for the morning. You should have seen how cute she was when I arrived at her house and mommy was still in the shower. Leia was sitting on her sofa with her harness on, not exactly sure what was going to happen, but trying to be ready for anything. We had a nice morning nap and then sat outside on the veranda, making lists and chatting on the phone. Later, Nalia came over and we had some nice walks in the autumn leaves.
September 19, 2007
· Filed under Green grass, flowers and such
I had a summer vacation…imagine that! It’s been one of those summers that every middle aged woman probably has at least once in her life, but it ended with a nostalgic trip to the east coast with my sister and lots of wonderful green time and beach time. When I was around ten and she was twenty five, we trekked the thousand miles with my mother to visit her sister in Deltaville, Virginia and went back many summers after that. The green on the east coast is very different, very soft, sometimes dry, but laced with lots of water, inlets, marshes, and rivers emptying out into the sea, and of course the crashing waves of the ocean. This August we returned to Deltaville and then went on to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. I loved the tall pine trees, the grasses on the sand dunes, the light houses, the sunsets.
