Category: Home Work
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Salt | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 The Morton cylinder sits on our kitchen shelf filled with crystals from an ancient sea. Salt extracted from gazillion-ton deposits waaaay underground speckles my eggs, dissolves in a marinade and, generally, coaxes the best from food that’s
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Artichoke | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Poet Carl Sandburg had a pithy quote about being human: “Life is like an onion. You peel it one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.” But I tend to think life is more like an artichoke: “Pluck and savor leaf after leaf until you find…
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Mop | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Breakfast done, dog walked, lawn watered. What now in self-isolation? Is bucket and mop really a consideration? For Buddhist monks, “Cleaning isn’t considered burdensome or something you don’t really want to do and wish to get over with as soon as possible,” writes Shoukei Matsumoto in his…
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Eggs | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 A few Easter facts from History.com: “The egg, an ancient symbol of new life, has been associated with pagan festivals celebrating spring. From a Christian perspective, Easter eggs are said to represent Jesus’ emergence from the tomb and resurrection.” And for you less religious, “The largest Easter egg…
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Eyeglasses | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 The origin of optics goes back 4,000 years to crystals used by ancient Egyptians to — I’m guessing — read jokes. (“Why was the Egyptian kid so confused? His daddy was his mummy.”) Today my #2 stay-put pursuit is reading, mostly news and novels, using the miracle…
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Cone | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Each day I try to accept the bounty of fallen pine cones as a wind-blown blessing, a gift from God. But those spiky bastards won’t stop littering the yard despite my slow-breath offering of gratitude and oneness. It’s clear that cosmic union only goes so far towards
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Moon | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 An astral orb delivers first-rate distancing. From afar it brightens the dark, illuminating a grander, greater reality. Its billion-year existence offers security amid uncertainty. Its path stays true, an unwavering arc across the spectacular
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Leaf Edge | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 These days comfort comes from life-enhancing routines. Stretch, walk, cook, eat, read. Small tasks — scrub, sweep, rake, sow — have become daily highlights. Once rushed; now savored. Sunlight brightens this particular spot, a potted plant, as it likely has for years. But I’ve only noticed…
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Planter | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2020 Gardening ranks low on my personal priority list, right below colonoscopy. I never really liked the idea of weeks of watering, weeding, waiting for seedlings when I could easily travel — down the street, across the state — to appreciate flowers, fields, forests, already grown by someone…
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Rinsing A Spoon | East Wenatchee, WA | March 2020 The spoon gets my vote for best all-round dining utensil. You fork fanatics will poke and stab at this assertion until you inevitably admit the obvious: You can eat almost anything with a spoon, but slurping soup with a fork is a painful path to…
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