From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Stained Relations

2008.Oct.17 Friday

 People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist Highwood, Illinois – Trying to get a group of people to agree on some place to go out [...]

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Nonet de Flores

2008.Oct.16 Thursday

 We who are of Nature’s making, And have souls that should aspire, Shall we not, from sloth awaking, Lift the voice and sound the lyre! And be seen, of brutes, or none! Shall her flowers bloom and die Undelighting human eye!” – from Lyric Leaves by Cornelius Webbe, 1832 Highwood, Illinois – Little to say, [...]

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Trio of Tidbits

2008.Oct.12 Sunday

 Bring me olives and morsels and I’ll be happy.” – Mariah Carey, singer New York City – The other day, a friend of mine here said, “You really are verbose. I pull up your blog in the morning to look at it and there are a dozen photographs and four or five paragraphs. That’s just [...]

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In a Pig’s Ear

2008.Oct.07 Tuesday

 You can’t make a silk purse of a sow’s ear.” – Jonathan Swift, Author New York City – Ever since Frank Bruni, the current restaurant critic for The New York Times had a pork belly epiphany, it’s become all the rage in one dining spot after another. But there had to be a starting point [...]

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The Importance Bug

2008.Oct.07 Tuesday

 When we lose sight of the distinction between our plans and the vision we are pursuing, we set ourselves up for a large dose of discouragement. A vision is a picture of what could and should be. A plan is a guess as to the best way to accomplish the vision. Failed plans should not [...]

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Lipitor… please!

2008.Oct.06 Monday

 Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.” – Henry Miller, Author New York City – The first week I moved to The Big Apple, in 1982, someone told me I had to go check out “the best deli in the city” because they were probably going out [...]

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Asian Q-sine

2008.Oct.05 Sunday

 …it is the instabilities of cuisines, a phenomenon that makes the very concept of cuisine problematic that interests me the most. In a reality of constant flows, nothing stable that can be labeled a “cuisine” takes form any longer. Fusion is not a cuisine and is not referred to as such by the people who [...]

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