I want to thank you for the recipe, which I will try this week, when I get home from class; but more for the beautifully evocative writing about your grandmother, which made me remember my own... and how many of those memories are kitchen memories. The recipes, or the smells can so easily bring those memories to mind. (For me, last week, it was the nasturtiums outside the theology building on campus, as my grandma also had a big bed of nasturtiums in her garden.)
Thank you very much. I completely understand about the nasturtiums. For me it's violets. Dear wore violet scented perfume, and my other grandmother's back yard was covered in them in Spring.
I really hope your cornbread turns out well. If you can't eat the whole loaf in one sitting do not despair: it makes awesome breakfast the next day, split, buttered and toasted.
It's really nice to get feedback on this. It was a heartfelt piece of writing.
(Now for the embarrassing part--do we know one another and I"m being dense? I'm curious to know how you came across my journal, as I tend to believe I labor in obscurity. Although I see you created icons for JB and Momo's story, and since I was Momo's Genma and Ibiki for quite a while, I'm guessing maybe the connection is there? ^_^)
Anyway, It's, as I said, really nice to get a random happy comment like this, and I do hope you enjoy your cornbread!
You don't know me. I've been lurking for most of the year around Livejournal and following Scarlet Spiral. It's your writing, among others, that has sucked me into this fandom. Just last month I finally signed up for Livejournal so that I could at least participate through giving feedback for the writing I enjoy.
I'm also highly entertained, now that school has started again, how frequently my margin scribbles reference manga or fanfiction. I guess that's what you get for reading feminist post-Holocaust German theologians on the subject of obedience.
I'd be delighted. And I'm so pleased you enjoy Spiral! Did you see we just created a guestbook (at long last) so you can give us feedback there, too, if you so desire?
So if I helped suck you into fandom, how did you find it, and Spiral, and me in the first place?
OOh and speaking of school, check out the utter crack that is Spiral High!
Don't let the heavy reading weigh you down too much. It sounds like dense material to me. Personally I'm opposed to obedience :P
I don't even remember how I got sucked in to the fiction fandom... I think I was looking up pictures for my kids, and then stumbled into the livejournal communities through deviant art links... maybe? I don't remember
( ... )
I've always thought that the only truly ethical obedience--the only obedience that really counts for good in anything--is the kind that follows not from blind faith but from intelligent choices. If you simply do something because you're told to do so, what's the good in it? (This is one reason I am very glad that my parents seldom pulled the "Because I said so" trick. "This is why" is much better, and much more likely to provoke me into obeying.) However, if you think things through and then make a rational, intelligent choice based on your inner standards and your evaluation of the greater good... Well, then your obedience is worth something.
I'm all in favor of obedience, as long as it's obeying the right authority and for the right purpose in doing the right thing. ^^
Hi Nezu! Nice nostalgia, and great cornbread recipe. I'll have to give it a try. Have you made the cornbread yet? How did it turn out? Just make sure you don't put 3-4 cups of chopped celery in it (oh, wrong recipe).
I made creme brulee for R last night. The creme turned out well, but I still need some practice with the torch in order to get the sugar juuuust right.
We still have to give that wasabi ice cream a try!
SMARKS! Surely this is you! Oh joy oh rapture! I shall add you to my flist immediately!
And yes, wasabi ice cream! The make it in Japan (so much for me being original) so, well. they also make crab ice cream and shrimp ice cream and kim chee ice cream in Japan. But still. Yes!. We definitely have to try!
AACK! Yes, 'tis me! I have been OUT'd! I was going to email you to identify myself more directly but I figured it would be fun to see how long it would take you to recognize me. Not long at all, as it turned out! I clearly left more than enough clues for you.
Well if the icon and the Masao name hadn't given it away, the reference to R, my plans for wasabi ice cream and the excessive celery certainly did. I havn't even read as far as the end of the message before I was already shouting SMARKS! at the top of my lungs (and scaring the rats) ^_____^
Anyway, I'm delighted you're here now. Now you can keep up with my drivel more directly ^^
Comments 11
Reply
I really hope your cornbread turns out well. If you can't eat the whole loaf in one sitting do not despair: it makes awesome breakfast the next day, split, buttered and toasted.
It's really nice to get feedback on this. It was a heartfelt piece of writing.
(Now for the embarrassing part--do we know one another and I"m being dense? I'm curious to know how you came across my journal, as I tend to believe I labor in obscurity. Although I see you created icons for JB and Momo's story, and since I was Momo's Genma and Ibiki for quite a while, I'm guessing maybe the connection is there? ^_^)
Anyway, It's, as I said, really nice to get a random happy comment like this, and I do hope you enjoy your cornbread!
Reply
I'm also highly entertained, now that school has started again, how frequently my margin scribbles reference manga or fanfiction. I guess that's what you get for reading feminist post-Holocaust German theologians on the subject of obedience.
Would you mind if I friended you?
Reply
So if I helped suck you into fandom, how did you find it, and Spiral, and me in the first place?
OOh and speaking of school, check out the utter crack that is Spiral High!
Don't let the heavy reading weigh you down too much. It sounds like dense material to me. Personally I'm opposed to obedience :P
Reply
Reply
I've always thought that the only truly ethical obedience--the only obedience that really counts for good in anything--is the kind that follows not from blind faith but from intelligent choices. If you simply do something because you're told to do so, what's the good in it? (This is one reason I am very glad that my parents seldom pulled the "Because I said so" trick. "This is why" is much better, and much more likely to provoke me into obeying.) However, if you think things through and then make a rational, intelligent choice based on your inner standards and your evaluation of the greater good... Well, then your obedience is worth something.
I'm all in favor of obedience, as long as it's obeying the right authority and for the right purpose in doing the right thing. ^^
Reply
Reply
I made creme brulee for R last night. The creme turned out well, but I still need some practice with the torch in order to get the sugar juuuust right.
We still have to give that wasabi ice cream a try!
Reply
And yes, wasabi ice cream! The make it in Japan (so much for me being original) so, well. they also make crab ice cream and shrimp ice cream and kim chee ice cream in Japan. But still. Yes!. We definitely have to try!
<333
Reply
s’masao
Reply
Anyway, I'm delighted you're here now. Now you can keep up with my drivel more directly ^^
Mata ne, Masao-kun. ^____^
Reply
Leave a comment