The cauldron , symbol of cooking, food, and nourishment. And of the basest, most primal horrors imaginable, the power of the Dark Arts, magic, and blasphemy. Everyone who’s ever read Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” recalls THE scene, the one with the three witches stirring the pot, chanting. FIRST WITCH: Round about the cauldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw….
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The Fallibility of Memory, or, The Fabulists among Us
Memory is a funny thing. By “funny,” I’m not thinking Woody Allen amusing or Amy Schumer hilarious. No, by “funny” I mean something akin to “strange” or “perplexing” or even “otherworldly.” And indeed memory can be perplexing, making it appear as the stuff of fabulists. Trying to remember what happened last week, much less 50 or…
Day 8: Apples – Celebrate American Food History
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Folk proverb Two stories convey the essence of apples to me. The first involves an almost surgical treatment of an apple tree in our front yard: One autumn day, Dad’s boss – Dr. C. S. Holton – appeared at the back door of our rambling old ex-farm house, its…
Time to Cook
It’s time … to share a pie or something else with someone today.
Strawberries, the Quintessential British Delicacy of the American South
They say that behind every recipe lurks a story. And that’s indeed true in the case of strawberries and the American South, where there’s a story, a big one. You see, Southerners in the United States like to point to strawberry shortcake and claim it as their own. Ditto strawberry pie. But strawberries, All-American perhaps, still…
The Grandmothers
It’s the eyes that do it first for me. Then I see the pearls. She’s not smiling, but I hope she laughed, a lot. I wonder what she found funny, what humor lurked on the long trek from Wisconsin to the homestead in Washington State. How did she make a home there, amidst the loss…
What is Bliss to Me is Not Bliss to You …
I woke this morning to fire in the sky, my kitchen windows portals to the universe. The knowing hit me: this is bliss, to see, to know, to feel. To be alive, surrounded by a heart-throbbing beauty that really has no name. Mother Earth shares this bliss with us and with every living creature. Home, as…
Water, Nature’s Driving Force
Water is the driving force of all nature. ~ Leonardo da Vinci [Note: Today’s word/prompt is “Water.” I am doing a sort of photo challenge at WordPress.com to get back into photography, which has gone on the backburner since I’ve had so many vision issues.] © 2016 C. Bertelsen
Home. What Signifies Home to You?
Home is where the hearth blazes and the old family photos line the entire wall. What means home to you??? [Note: Today’s word/prompt is “Home.” I am doing a sort of photo challenge at WordPress.com to get back into photography, which has gone on the backburner since I’ve had so many vision issues.] © 2016…
