Dear Reader, I hope everyone had a pleasant, nourishing Thanksgiving. My day was filled with grateful communications from friends. The main feature on my holiday table was a “vegan meatloaf,” made with plant based Beyond Meat. It was delicious, very filling, but not heavy. I could not eat dessert. After dinner, I logged onto the […]
Archives for November 2023
Expressing Gratitude
Happy Thanksgiving, dear Reader. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. People gathering to share food with nurturing and gratitude as the central themes, what’s not to love about that? I appreciate that Thanksgiving has a low commercial aspect. And that is essentially why the culture undervalues this holiday. Shoot! The shops are already playing “Jingle Bells,” […]
Write it down
Happy Halloween Dear Reader. To honor this holiday, let’s take a walk in the graveyard. Memento mori. Last week, I attended Richard Friswell’s fascinating library lecture, “Graven Images, Colonial New England Gravestones as Art and History.” As he explained, the imagery on the gravestones directly correlated to the early settlers’ relationship with Death. Samuel and Lydia […]