"Dinnertime. I'm sitting alone, trying to eat slowly. My Guru is always encouraging us to practice discipline when it comes to eating. She encourages us to eat in moderation and without desperate gulps, to not extinguish the sacred fires of our bodies by dumping too much food into our digestive tracts too fast. When students come to her complaining that they're having trouble meditating, she always asks how their digestion has been lately. It only stands to reason that you'll have trouble gliding lightly into transcendence when your guts are struggling to churn through a sausage calzone, a pound of buffalo wings and half a coconut cream pie."
Where did this past week go? Holy guacamole...it just flew by! Hubby has been in St. Louis at a conference. He gets home this morning. Sure do miss him when he's gone. There is so much running around after school with the girls that I don't always remember how nice it is for him to be on "pick-up duty". I drop off and he picks up. It's a nice system.
I've heard great things about the author's other books so I thought I'd give this one a try. I also have this to read. What's with all the blood and vampires?
"About one-quarter of American children between the ages of two and five have a TV in their room."
JK had a BLAST watching the countdown and couldn't stop wiggling and giggling!
"I lifted my head to spy on Hannah playing nearby in the shade and saw Tom and Mother broad-hoeing the garden. They were planting corn, beans, and squash all in the same mounds together. The corn would grow tall and straight as a pole. The beans would vine the corn towards the sun and the squash would grow in the shadows below."
I've been tagged by April @ Straight from the Heart. This is a real fun tag for me as I love to read books! I had six books stacked together on my shelf behind the couch so I grabbed the book on top of the pile, Amish Grace. I am reading this book for my church's book club.
"Together these themes built on a much longer tradition of public tribute to Amish life. The Amish have long captivated outsiders with their tight-knit communities and resistance to modern technologies, prompting some to wonder if the Amish have something good the English are missing. In the aftermath of the Nickel Mines shooting, this tune of amazement played in a slightly different key. Not only did the Amish have something good that others lacked, but in many people's eyes the Amish were good-or at least better than the vast majority of their American neighbors.""Work in that household never ceased, and it called for skill and patience, qualities Kit did not seem to possess. There was meat to be chopped, and vegetables to prepare for the mid-day meal. The pewter mugs had to be scoured with reeds and fine sand. There was a great kettle of soap boiling over a fire just behind the house, and all day long Judith and her mother took turns stirring it while she readied the soap barrel. Kit tried to keep a gingerly distance from the kettle. The strong fumes of lye stung her eyelids and stirring the heavy mass tired her arms and shoulders....
Pedaling, a good blogging buddy of mine, had the wonderful opportunity to attend the RNC earlier this month. While she was there she picked up some good loot to give away on her blog. Well, I was one of the lucky recipients and was given the choice of what I would like her to send me. I had a hard time making up my mind (I usually do not have this problem but she had some great things to choose from) and so I asked her to choose for me. Can I say that was the best decision, ever! Look what I came home to on Saturday!
Viola!
Once upon a time, long, long ago, a little girl named Rae watched The Wizard of Oz. (I was about 5 years old) This movie changed the course of my life from that moment on. That horrid green faced witch would haunt me the rest of my life.
This is going to be a hodge podge of a post. A little this, a little that.
It's raining today.
...For all of you Twilight Series fans out there...the family and I are winging our way to Forks' neighboring city, Port Angeles!
