On to the recipes and pictures:
This one looks so delicious!
Spring Mix (baby greens)
Papaya*(I always buy the Maridol papayas; large and I love the deep red peach color)
Avocado
Red Onion
Clover Sprouts
Maridol Papaya, from the inside. Isn't that star of seeds lovely? The papaya seeds can be dried and ground to make a pepper. I think I mentioned standing by the window in a hotel in California while my Aunt Lola told me always to swallow the papaya seeds, and I never cut a papaya without thinking with Love about her. And I always swallow the seeds, except when fasting.
Here are two containers with my juice:
fresh squeezed orange or tangerine juice* from Whole Foods
Strawberry juice
Papaya juice*
Prickly pear juice*
Juiced garlic, ginger, and jalapeno (the jalapenos were a gift last September from Ray, our dear neighbour Gen's son, who lives in Maryland. He gave me a big bag full, which I froze and am just finishing up. The peppers get soft, and don't lose any of the hotness. Quite the contrary!
Ray and his lovely daughter Lisa are up here to visit Gen for Mother's Day.
I didn't take a picture of it yet, and he's been feeling tired (and he works long hard hours outdoors), so I shopped for him, along with our food, this morning, and made a salad of (so far):
Rhubarb chard*
Carrots, grated*
Green pepper*
Avocado
Onion
And I'm planning to add Papaya* and orange segments and a dressing of extra-virgin olive oil, Eden's raw apple cider vinegar, fresh garlic*, and sage since it's growing all year round here.
Dear Sandy,
ReplyDeleteI just read your nice long comment when I got here. Interesting how websites feel like 'places'. I always feel that way about The Gathering Place too; I guess because it's like a community.
It is such a process packing up a home and selling it. Doesn't the packing feel like You are watching your 'past'. I've been cleaning out the basement so as to be able to free the living room from all the paperwork and move it out of sight! Some bags of clothing got wet, and looking at the clothes brought up so many different experiences from the past. Throwing them out was hard (because of water damage) and yet freeing.
It's as if the past has somehow created and given definition to my experience, and letting it go is stepping out into new territory, enlarging the boundaries- no, that isn't it; throwing out the past removes boundaries.
Somehow fasting gives that feeling of freedom too.
Love,
Sun~Rose
HI Sun-Rose, so nice to see the comment from you.
ReplyDeleteI agree about how freeing this process is. I love collecting books and they had ranged from art books, children's books) for the wonderful illustrations, my metaphysical books and then novels. I have gotten rid of everything except for my metaphysical books and my "art" books that I've paid a lot of money for through the years. This has been so free-ing.
Then came the CD collection - I kept a third of what I had and sent the rest away, over a hundred.
Anyway, the process continues. We have an acre so I am also trying to keep up with the yard work, (along with my husband also doing his share). It is time for more freedom away from house chores.
I find the fact that you are running, and uphill also, to be very inspiring. And how long do you fast? It seems like it has been quite awhile now.