Peace is supposed, imagined, divined, dreamed. Peace’s language, its sounds and rhythms, when read aloud, when read silently, should pacify breath and tongue, make ears and brain be tranquil. The images of peace are ephemeral, The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace haveContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Friday in Pictures: Special Duende Edition
let the images tell you their story
Thursday Recipe: Summer Food Dreams
We spend all Summer dreaming about the comfort foods of Winter (deep savory pies with aspic, vats of stews, casseroles of cheese and pasta) that when warmer weather comes we want simpler foods with less window dressing (grill foods, simple salads, fruit sorbets). But there are also those middle ground times – not just ofContinue reading “Thursday Recipe: Summer Food Dreams”
Duendesday, My Little Buttercup
{life with a curious and crazy almost 11 yr old} That’s us – the three amigo’s. Watching the world unfurl in a plethora of beauty and struggle. This little one’s struggles are not so bad. Duende does think it’s the end of the world when she’s out of ice cream (which she tries to finagleContinue reading “Duendesday, My Little Buttercup”
Tuesday Happenings
One minute it’s Winteresque and feels like the snow on the North slope will never melt, and the next it is lush and on the cusp of Spring overgrowth! We mow a little less so that I can forage in certain places (non-chicken spaces) and so that magickal goodness has time to grow and flowerContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings”
Monday Musing
Precipice BY JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM The borderof a thing. Its edgeor hem. The selvage,the skirt, a perimeter’strim. The blowof daylight’s end andnighttime’s beginning.A fence or a rim,a margin, a fringe.And this: the grim,stingy doorstepwhere the lapseof passage happens.That slim lip of land,the liminal vergethat slips you pastyour brink. Whereand when youblink.
Friday in Pictures: in Bloom
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Recipe Thursday: Thai Basil Chicken Curry & Corn Fritters
The reality is this week our curry will be made with leftover Turkey (since the child decided to whip up Turkey dinner last week!) and since our Thai Basil are sweet tiny wee seedlings, we will substitute with Italian Basil. If I pair this with Corn Fritters (Tod Man Khao Pod), the child might eatContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Thai Basil Chicken Curry & Corn Fritters”
Duendesday in Spring
{life with a curious and crazy almost 11 yr old} What a consummate little hostess with the mostess, my little peach is – at the Mother’s Day Picnic she was complimented on her conversational skills, her whipping up some fresh whip cream and serving dessert, and her knowledge/information about our homestead. On the morning ofContinue reading “Duendesday in Spring”
Tuesday Happenings
The weather has truly been co-operative and lovely lately. A real full Spring, which is rare around these parts; generally we have a lot of rain and maybe still some snow and the last frost is no joke. And because things are a little different, we might struggle later on (if we don’t get ourContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings”
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