Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Beginning the Season of Feasting

Here it comes....in America we go from Halloween to Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Years, and in our house finish with Orthodox Christmas. It's a long season of eating!

Every year the news magazines and print media and our own repeated history tell us how to put limits on the celebration so there won't be any damage.

But this is my brief question for today..........
What if I sank deeply into feasting and celebrating and rejoicing and giving thanks and buried myself in creating rich and wonderful memories of celebration?

What if I put no limits on visiting with friends and spreading the love with relatives and just had a blast for ten whole weeks? What's so wrong with feasting? What's so wrong with celebrating?

Would it energize my  New Year? Would the highs and lows of other people's stories that so impact my life be more easily ridden in the middle in the year 2014 if I took the time and made the effort to say, "hey! Life is a grand delight! " at the beginning of winter?

Maybe a way to better my life is to embrace the depths of each season more fully. Maybe I need to surrender to the rhythm of nature and the ways of the sun's rotation and eat fats during winter, vegetables during Spring and Summer and Fruits from June to October.

The lack we feel inside and then fill in ways that seem unfufilling may happen because we do not sink deeply into each season with gusto and limitless participation.

Just for fun, I'm going to try it!
Love,
Deborah

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Meal plans

I put together my list of possibilities with what I have. Actually there's an app I discovered called Big Oven that I just love. Enter three items and it sends you a choice of recipes.

How much of life do I plan and how much of life is trying to make the most of three ingredients? Which is the better skill?

The old way, I sat down on a weekend and wrote out long complicated well balanced meals and then got tripped up when somebody had a soccer game rescheduled or a last minute parent meeting at school.

Granted now it's just me, but putting in tuna, rice, and celery can mean add an apple and onion and there's a salad, or carrots and a bay leaf and there's soup.

When I feel like I need to be really on top of my life, I can look at the biggest three items going on in my life at the present moment and focus on combining those. I call it Big Life!
Love,
Deborah