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Something I've been noticing about myself is that over the last month I've been getting a lot more in touch with my body. Especially as that relates to food and exercise. A few weeks ago, when my mom was away, I had a complete and utter craving for Kale. So after a long walk, I came home and found that we had some in the fridge (Halleluia!), so I cooked up some and felt deeply, deeply nourished by it. So much so that it started speaking to me, which was really awesome. I love having such an intimate connection with that which nourishes me. Very affirming!
I was looking through a cookbook because my mom had wanted me to cook tonight. Normally I don't go through cookbooks looking for stuff (my typical way of 'looking' for recipes is to assume protein+starch+veg=meal. Well, in essence, yes, but that's not really a recipe per se, just the nuts and bolts), but this time it was on command. We have lots of fennel, for some odd reason, and one thing that really stuck out to me in one particular book was a Winter Vegetable Curry. I've never made anything like ever before, but it just.. it felt so nourishing, I can't describe it. Like all the veggies in it were reaching out with hands, towards me, and there was this tremendously kind energy in the pages. I almost had a thought of copying the recipe for myself, but that didn't feel right. It feels like a very sacred dish.. though not above irreverence! It feels like just what I need, but right now we don't have all the stuff for it. I will be making that very soon though..
At work, I had an unusual discovery. So we have this little drawer beside the cash drawer, that has a tiny little pocket for jewelry. We find little random pieces of jewelry that guests have left behind, and it gets tucked away in there. There were two prisms, the ones that you hang up in the window from a string, and they bounce rainbows off the sunlight! So cool. I had to take those, so after I asked permission, I gleefully tucked them into my bag.
I was looking through the stuff (prisms just catch my attention because I was looking for more anyway, yay universe looking after me!), and there were two rings and a few different earrings (nothing paired). They were actually pretty interesting -- one of the rings caught my attention. It has a Celtic design facing the stone (which I'm not sure if it's real or not.. but that doesn't bother me if it's not. The energy is what's important to me), and it has a dark blue stone within it.
At first I picked it up, then put it back in the drawer, then I thought, "Trust yourself," realizing that there was SOME thing going on with it, because I felt a sort of connection with it. So I picked it up again, and put it down again, then picked it up again. I asked my manager if I could keep it, and he said yes, and I wore it the rest of the hour that I was there. I'm not sure of its story, but it feels right, somehow, so I'm going to keep an eye on it. It feels friendly.
I was looking through a cookbook because my mom had wanted me to cook tonight. Normally I don't go through cookbooks looking for stuff (my typical way of 'looking' for recipes is to assume protein+starch+veg=meal. Well, in essence, yes, but that's not really a recipe per se, just the nuts and bolts), but this time it was on command. We have lots of fennel, for some odd reason, and one thing that really stuck out to me in one particular book was a Winter Vegetable Curry. I've never made anything like ever before, but it just.. it felt so nourishing, I can't describe it. Like all the veggies in it were reaching out with hands, towards me, and there was this tremendously kind energy in the pages. I almost had a thought of copying the recipe for myself, but that didn't feel right. It feels like a very sacred dish.. though not above irreverence! It feels like just what I need, but right now we don't have all the stuff for it. I will be making that very soon though..
At work, I had an unusual discovery. So we have this little drawer beside the cash drawer, that has a tiny little pocket for jewelry. We find little random pieces of jewelry that guests have left behind, and it gets tucked away in there. There were two prisms, the ones that you hang up in the window from a string, and they bounce rainbows off the sunlight! So cool. I had to take those, so after I asked permission, I gleefully tucked them into my bag.
I was looking through the stuff (prisms just catch my attention because I was looking for more anyway, yay universe looking after me!), and there were two rings and a few different earrings (nothing paired). They were actually pretty interesting -- one of the rings caught my attention. It has a Celtic design facing the stone (which I'm not sure if it's real or not.. but that doesn't bother me if it's not. The energy is what's important to me), and it has a dark blue stone within it.
At first I picked it up, then put it back in the drawer, then I thought, "Trust yourself," realizing that there was SOME thing going on with it, because I felt a sort of connection with it. So I picked it up again, and put it down again, then picked it up again. I asked my manager if I could keep it, and he said yes, and I wore it the rest of the hour that I was there. I'm not sure of its story, but it feels right, somehow, so I'm going to keep an eye on it. It feels friendly.