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Some recipes, really only a small handful, even if you find them in a cookbook or online, and you will - will not be my mother's recipe. For that, the concentric circles that have included me, come from long ago and a country I never have known - and yet I know it's soup, I know it's potato kugel, i know it's savory lukshun or noodle kugel, i know it's matza balls and horseradish, it's chopped chicken liver and creamed herring. And i know these things from my mother who was not at all interested in the past. Who spoke only briefly, and with a special kind of gentleness I only heard in her voice on the rare times she talked of her mother. I never knew my mother's mother, my grandmother. And yet somehow I do. She is in the circle within the circle with me too. Sharing a recipe is sharing a soul food.

the idea of vows taken as a personal support system and practice sounds beautiful. when our own values are expressed in words that we can feel as much as understand their meaning, we are then using the best of being human to relate to the world.

I think of the idea of wabi sabi. The beauty found in. According to Alan. Asymmetrical and uneven unbalanced things. There's not a solution. And part of wabi sabi is the idea of the grace in aging, the beauty of aged things. In other words, some things come to an end or a seeming end, and there is beauty there. And it's not so much about solution as it is about. I think a sacred moment. And stopping and taking in what is there. Is a Tulip flower so bright and fresh and strong in its young colors? The best expression of being a Tulip. Or is it when it is folding over with a gentleness and a softer arc to the bend and it leaves when it is aging? And you can't fix tulips that are aging. You're just going to enjoy them

we have all passed through these times; some linger; some move on. we recognize each other.

We are we. That is the moving story of our lives. We were never alone or solitary. We were and are and always be connected to all that lives and moves and even to all that flows and grows. So, a great reminder that we are nature and nature is not apart from us or over there. It is here, within and without. There is no separation. We have to and should want to take care of our world. We are the earth and we live on through nature.