July 2021

Italian bread salad variation

Italian grilled-bread salad

Italian Grilled-bread Salad This is a crispier, more colourful and greener variation on traditional Italian Bread Salad. It includes grilled leftover baguette, tomatoes, spring greens, cucumber, lots of basil, oregano, and parsley. It’s perfect for hot summer days when sun-ripe tomatoes and fresh basil are available. Like all my recipes, I encourage you to improvise […]

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Mountain trail

Walk up into the forest keep right at the big bend. Walk gingerly past the brambles, gingerly alongside the culvert to the creek —fresh bear tracks in the mud. Come, listen to the rippling, bubbling creek. Its cool breath soothing your cheeks teasing away time and unease. Drop anxious thoughts into the murmuring skipping down

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To be human

To be human is to sense everything and to release everything    —nothing belongs to us. Here, I am a guest cradled in the arms of this blue-green, spinning miracle. I am swirling the Milky Way through this body. I am skipping a river in and out of this heart place. I am breathing a

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