Music and Cats

I spent much of last week curled up in an armchair, nursing my sore throat with hot tea and orange juice, watching the weather outside. It’s November in Seattle, so statistically, that weather should have been the windy, wet sort. However, a band of high pressure parked itself over western Washington last Wednesday, and stayed […]

love to eat them babies
babies what i love to eat
bite they crispy tops off
nibble on they delicious eggy goodness *
Let’s say you have friends visiting from out of town, and you’re feeling a bit under the weather. It’s Sunday morning, and you’re sitting in the living room with your friends, drinking coffee and reading the […]

I haven’t written this year about the 100-mile Thanksgiving challenge, but eating locally was, as usual, on my mind when planning and shopping for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner. Also on my mind? The Thanksgiving menu. You know, those dishes from childhood without which it won’t quite feel like Thanksgiving. The foods I’m not prepared to […]

This cat wants something from you:

What We Need Is Here
Geese appear high over us,
pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to their way, clear
in the ancient faith: what we need
is here. And we pray, not
for new earth or heaven, but to be
quiet in heart, and in eye,
clear. What we need is here.
–Wendell Berry