The Great Wall

Great Wall

Dr. King on Poverty

The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. 

I am aware that there are many who wince at a distinction between property and persons–who hold both sacrosanct. My views are not so rigid. A life is sacred. Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on; it is not man.

  

  

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

  

 

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Detroit, Michigan, June 23, 1963.

Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, 1967.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967.

Haiti Relief

“Doctors Without Borders” is a Nobel Prize winning humanitarian organization.  They’ve been around for nearly four decades; and has been long established and operating in Haiti for nearly two decades.

 

In New England, many of the doctors had an established schedule of rotation and would cover for each other’s practice and clientele during their annual overseas missions.

 

The reason I’ve chosen DWBorders is that they are already established and operational in Haiti … with  long functioning treatment centers and staff.   They are already there and set up … but resources, medicines, and monies are scarce.  Donations will help fuel their ongoing efforts for our neighbors in Haiti. 

 

 

I’ve included a link for donations.  Please donate until it hurts.

Doctors Without Borders

“Knowledge Kills Myth”

Shout out to my darling gay brothers and  lesbo sisters scattered about the country:

Hoarding 101

I saw an e-series on hoarders.  One womyn had over 3 feet of trash piled throughout her home.  They found 2 dead cats under the rubble.  The clean up crew had to shovel out over eight thousand pounds of debris from her house. 

 

She was left pissed off ‘cus they only found one half of her lost dentures in the rubble.

  

The ‘hoarder psychologist’ said the hoarding and debris and trash was each person’s pain.  I just added – selling off my pain in eBay – to my NYresolutions.

I wonder how much the clean up crew gets paid for handling feces, dead cats, and toilets caked on with years of UNpara-like-fetish poop.  Those poor workers … I hope – at the very least - they have medical. 

Onion’s Za`atar bread

 

Derby had her first meeting with pork on Christmas Eve … it was brief and mighty fat in the fire kind of loving.  I made a cuban pork roast in my Staub.  Lifetimes ago, Lucy gave me a copy of “Gourmet” magazine with a Cuban Pork Roast that was Cal’s favorite.  Here ‘tiz:

  

Pork butt

garlic

onions

crushed peppercorn (I used an island mix: Tellicherry black, Mutok white, French pepper rose)

limes (juice and zest of a half dozen)

*cilantro (optional)

 

~ slow cook in cast iron on stove top for hours.  it returns a blissful pull pork.

Merrymerry

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/cool-synchronized-holiday-lights/201pnz5a?from=sharepermalink

Christmas In Yellowstone

YouTube – NATURE “Christmas in Yellowstone” | Diamond Dust | PBS

Planting Black Walnut Trees

The Black Walnut tree takes somewhere around half a century to fruition, depending on the region, climate, and technology utilized.   It’s historically been sparsely scattered because of the fact that whoever plants them will not profit from them; rather future generations are left with rapidly generating & recycling bounty in trees, yield, and wealth far exceeding other hardwoods many times over.

Our neighbors in Maine had many children and a Christmas Tree farm. My, then, husband and I took vacation time to help plant their Christmas tree-lings when they came in.   Christmas trees are, generally, fully grown within 6 – 8 years.   Once a year the Colters’ yielded a handsome profit selling the annual trees for people to decorate and light up their holidays with.   Those same people returned in following years to purchase more trees from them.

BLRW: Sellevision

I just finished “Sellevision” … one of Augusten Burrough’s first writes.    I found a new word.

It wasn’t exactly a new word … more a revisiting word,  long estranged.  I didn’t even know I missed it until I read it in Sellevision. 

Sarai is a Hebrew name, Homer

BinxB91: I just posted a KatyTried column … with a small love scene that features an ethnic Japanese woman
BinxB91: Beysshoes will assume I had her in mind
PatientOnionSF: she’s japanese now?
BinxB91: Beysshoes is racially Japanese

PatientOnionSF: but she has a swedish name
BinxB91: who eats the tacos

 

 

 PatientOnionSF: first i tenderized the steak with a cheap chinese cleaver, then rubbed on it: fish sauce, black pepper, ground red chiles, brown sugar, lime juice
 PatientOnionSF: i cut it up into thin slices, freeze it, and make tacos out of it