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YPunday --nicely supportive words...

posted by scriber on May 4, 2007 at 8:04 PM | link to this | reply

correction-

I misspelled pores - oozed out her pours- I was going to say poured out of her skin but didn't change my spelling of pours (verb) to pores (noun.)  Sorry!!

Cee

posted by LadyCeeMarie on May 4, 2007 at 7:39 PM | link to this | reply

YP and proc-

I wondered how you 'ate lemons.'  I will try them the SA way (salt, red or chili pepper and vinegar sometimes) because I love spicy food!  I never knew what I was missing until I left home and found out about flavor.  I grew up on home grown everything, vegetables to beef, and my mother cooked everything until well done. Now I take my meat rare and my vegetables crisp.  When I lived with a doctoral student from Thailand for a year, I really learned about garlic.  It oozed out of her pours.  The first night I slept in the same room, I entered and wondered what was making my eyes water.  I got used to it; in fact, I ate lots of garlic as a counter defense.  Jay never complained.  I take omneprazole (generic Prilosec) for a hiatal hernia (your stomach comes through a hole in your diaphram, spilling acids into you espophagus which causes extreme indigestion. Otherwise, me and spicy foods would be parting ways.  My daughter loves to cook with a lot of spice and her Sean eats his food Thai-hot.  I say if my lips become numb for a half-hour, and I go through about six Kleenex, it's hot enough.

LadyCeeMarie

posted by LadyCeeMarie on May 4, 2007 at 7:35 PM | link to this | reply

oh my dear,you also ate lemons with salt and curry powder?

We sometimes added vinegar.  Ypunday,I love your poem,the quietness,the stillness.  Thats when we are most in touch with God.  As for spicy foods.  Thats all we eat but we too have learnt to eat boils and blands when we visit friends.  What helps is that most meals are potluck so we can take along our hot Indian curries.  I make them milder so our kiwi friends can enjoy them too.  And boy,do they enjoy them.

posted by proc on May 4, 2007 at 6:04 PM | link to this | reply

Yes dear--but growing up (altho away from Asia) we put spices in EVERYTHING

--however, I am happy to report that I am almost fully Americanized and can eat boiled, baked and bland foods, even boiled veggies. Just in time for most Americans adopting TexMex and spicy Thai and Eastern dishes. Life is lemony with sugaron the side.Peacedearone

posted by salem8 on May 4, 2007 at 5:17 PM | link to this | reply

YP

Have you tried lemons ,salt and a dash of sugar?YUM

posted by snubnose on May 4, 2007 at 5:08 PM | link to this | reply

Yes dear--I am trying, God's my witness, to make lemonade when LIFE.....

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WHY DO I LOVE LEMONS:

Before the Group Areas Act forcibly removed black and brown folks from choice land in apartheid era South Africa, I grew up on a citrus orchard. We kids (and pregnant women) would peel huge lemons and dip each wedge in fien salt mixed with chilli powder, and twang...tangy tangy....OOOOOOOOoooolalalala

posted by salem8 on May 4, 2007 at 4:43 PM | link to this | reply

YP

I LOVED this one!  Listening to the Universe; that still quiet whisper. I heard one of my guides whisper my name, "Carole," in my ear yesterday, as I stood in a line at Walmart. I guess he was just letting me know I wasn't alone.  Someone in the vast universe is whispering to me. It keeps me grounded. It keeps me humble.  We are so small in comparison but we are not alone in this huge place.  Your heart found mine, did it not?  I don't believe in coincidence.

Blessings

LADY CEE MARIE

posted by LadyCeeMarie on May 4, 2007 at 3:54 PM | link to this | reply

Thanx U awesome bloggrelations!Often my pious efforts fail to get readers &

then when some milder exertions bring encouragement like this (like these?), I feel over-compensated. Shalomfromneil

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posted by salem8 on May 4, 2007 at 2:35 PM | link to this | reply

Yes. The deliciosity of transcendental meditations.....

posted by Decshak_ on May 4, 2007 at 1:58 PM | link to this | reply

Hi Neil - better late than never, I've just read your sperm sonnet sequence

 - how did I win that sperm race all those years ago when I'm so slow? Actually, my excuse is I'd had no sleep for 24 hours and was too tired! You should have emailed me to read it!

This new one is beautiful - great language, and more besides. You should live where I do - ManCHESTer.

posted by Antonionioni on May 4, 2007 at 11:18 AM | link to this | reply

You are profound and always have great messages to impart . Good poem.

posted by afzal50 on May 4, 2007 at 11:17 AM | link to this | reply

HUMMMMMMMMMMMMM

posted by REFLECTIONOFME_223_30 on May 4, 2007 at 9:37 AM | link to this | reply

Thanx Rich--always the Universe is trying to hug each one of us.Do Ufeel IT

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posted by salem8 on May 4, 2007 at 8:44 AM | link to this | reply

YPunday,

posted by richinstore on May 4, 2007 at 8:30 AM | link to this | reply