The Inquisitive Skink

I don't know why so many in the media are too dense to understand why people are so pissed off and deciding to occupy Wall Street.  It is very simple. The banking industry has been playing craps with our money and a fixed roll of dice. Our own government provides documentation of the unfairness of our system.The CIA World Fact Book is a wonderful compendium of information. They publish an index that measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country.  According to our government's own figures, the United States is more unequal a society than either Tunisia or Egypt. (When you read the chart, remember that the bigger the GINI index the more unequal a country's income distribution). Somehow, the news people "get" the frustrations of the people in the streets of Egypt but want to hold their heads in the sand about the frustration driving protests here.I avoid tv news now....it just makes me want to stick pins into voodoo doll...

I do not believe in supernatural miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures,the trinity,etc.  In that manner I line up with many of the deists that helped found our country (Jefferson, Washington, etc.). I admit the possibility of a god while also admitting the possibility of no god. I see no reason for people to think that god would have to be the creator of all things. Why couldn't there be a god that did not create the world, but is instead a force or energy shared between people and the world....or simply put, part of the world?  I exposed my children to multiple religious views. I also used modern day parables and personal life stories to teach much about life. One story, or perhaps it should be called a question, that I had posed to my children when they were growing up is this: If you were walking down the street and a person came up to you and said that you had to believe what they believed in and that if you didn't do so they would pour a can of gasoline on you and...

My cat Daisy......I often called her Daisy Crabby Cat......She stayed on my lap sleeping most of the day yesterday and passed away today.  She was my oldest daughters kitty.....so many memories get tied up in a pet that you have had for twenty years. I will see her ghost (in my mind) for many days to come, I am sure.

memories of soft sweet earth a constant thrumming trees backlit by morning moon

This brought back memories!  This is definitely not politically correct but I can't imagine a parent not feeling this at some point.  I never used profanities much....but I felt them at times!

Food Works For Middle Way House is offering delicious coffee cakes!  We have discovered that everyone's idea of a perfect coffee cake is different.  You have those who want the yeasted bread type of cake and the others that prefer the quick bread type.  Charlotte Zietlow, famous in Bloomington for many great reasons including her critical role in getting Food Works off the ground, has provided us with her favorite recipe and that has now  become our stand by recipe.  Feel free to call us and order a coffee cake the day prior.....and if you have your own recipe you want to share, we can do that too!  (812) 219-9525.......P.S......I am planning a coffee cake recipe contest in the future!

Please Call Me by My True Names By  Thich Nhat Hanh (1929 - ) Don't say that I will depart tomorrow -- even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive. I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly. I am the frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throw...

My daughter was on a flight circling the Minneapolis airport yesterday when the tornado struck there.  The tornado thankfully missed her apartment by three miles.

We have been busy finishing a 450 vagina pop order in the kitchen today. All for a good cause of course.....the sale of them will benefit Middle Way House .

We are very happy with our Gluten-Free Olive Oil Bread at the Food Works Kitchen, and we know you will be, too. Many who have tried it prefer it over "regular" bread. It will be available at all of the Bloomingfoods locations starting in February, and it is in the Food Works Market now! Call us at (812) 219-9525 to order for Wednesday pick-up. This is our Gluten free baking day. Each loaf is $5.29 and available fresh, frozen, or frozen par-baked.