I knew my outgoing postcards were gone because the flag was down. When I opened up the box though – BOOM – Exploding Kittens.
One can only imagine what the postal people thought about a tiny box marked “Exploding Kittens”…
then, along with some local art class information and other miscellaneous things:
On the way home, I stopped to watch the sun mess around with some great clouds.
There’s an oft-quoted idea about keeping fresh eyes, staying a beginner and using that as a way to explore, see new possibilities, make new connections, no matter what your field or art. Wendell Berry brings this up at the end of his poem, “To Hayden Carruth“, seen today on The Writer’s Almanac. More poems by Berry can be found at the Poetry Foundation including this one, How To Be a Poet.
What shall
I say? I greet you at the beginning of a great career?
No. I greet you at the beginning, for we are
either beginning or we are dead. And let us have
no careers, lest one day we be found dead in them.
I greet you at the beginning that you have made
authentically in your art, again and again.
It turns out that Hayden Carruth was a poet as well, and his work can be found at the Poetry Foundation too, see “Emergency Haying” or “Graves”
What do they find there? Hell,
I wouldn’t go look at the grave of
Shakespeare if it was just
down the street. I wouldn’t
look at—” And I stopped. I
was about to say the grave of God
until I realized I’m looking at it
all the time….
and if you haven’t got time for the pain…
Stuck stuff to a wall, made sauce, ate a lot of ravioli and could have finished the whole bag, read a lot of news, caught up with some favorite blogs… and stole and filled in the blank on this
You know what that means (from the annals of 2006):
It’s time for your yearly reminder:
People have tried and tried, but sex is not better than sweet corn. — Garrison Keillor
and while you’re at it, eat a real tomato or two. Summer’s short and corn and tomato season even shorter. Now go.
Here’s my helpful August tip to get you going. If you have a cob of corn left over, cooked or uncooked you can have a great omelet for breakfast or dinner. If it’s a single uncooked cob, leave it in the husk, stick it in the microwave for 4-5 minutes and that husk will slide right off with the silk, leaving the perfectly cooked corn behind. Use a good big dishtowel to protect your hands because that sucker is hot. Here’s how, with a trick I learned recently about slicing off the wide end of the cob before removing the husk.
Next, slice off the corn from the cob. From here you can go in lots of directions, but throw a glob of butter into a fry pan, throw in a bit of chopped onion. Fry that a bit and then dump in the corn nibs. let that cook a few minutes and go on about your business making your two or three egg omelet. I like to flip mine and add just a little (not tons, PLEASE!) good cheddar.
You could add chopped green/red sweet peppers, chopped tomatoes (drained of their liquid), feta instead of cheddar, potatoes.
Now go. And if you use some leftover potatoes with onions to make some home fries before you start with the omelet, no one will think anything other than:
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