When Big Boy was just a Little Boy (from memory, he was ten at the time), I used to drop him off at the school bus.
Every morning, in the car, I’d drill him.
“What are the two things you need to remember today?”
He would roll his eyes, sigh, and reply.
“Life doesn’t owe me a living…”
“Yes…and?”
“Sh*t happens, [...]
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Parenting
Posted in Musings on March 7, 2010 | 17 Comments »
A Year of Being Present
Posted in Food & Friends, Musings on February 23, 2010 | 21 Comments »
Today is the first anniversary of Fig Jam and Lime Cordial.
Twelve months ago I started this blog with the single aim of focusing my eyes on all the positive things in my life. I wanted something to shake me out of my funk; to constantly remind me of how wonderful and blessed my existence really [...]
Stardust
Posted in Musings on October 16, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Orion Nebula M42
© Peter Velez 2009
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Did you know that we’re all made of stardust?
The molecules within us, the basic atoms that make up our bodies, are the residue of exploding stars millenia ago.
Here’s how David the geologist and astronomer explained it to me:
In the original big bang, the elements hydrogen [...]
Move over, please…
Posted in Musings on October 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s a long weekend, and my brain has been meandering…
Isn’t it amazing how many creatures we share our space with?
I think sometimes we forget that we’re part of the animal kingdom and, like all other species, we have our own territories. Only ours are defined by legal documents and fences and boundary lines.
But it always [...]
People
Posted in Musings on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From the wall of Shishu Bhavan,
Mother Teresa’s children’s home in Calcutta
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People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
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If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
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If you are honest and [...]
Whimsy
Posted in Musings on September 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
We are incredibly blessed with lives that are full of laughter and gentle whimsy.
Perhaps it’s a byproduct of slowing down – when life was frenetic and chaotic, it was hard to see the funny side of things.
Perhaps it’s a result of having truly offbeat, quirky kids with their own distinct personalities and eclectic tastes. Small [...]
Fig Jam
Posted in Food & Friends, Musings on September 7, 2009 | 19 Comments »
I need to clear something up here.
I didn’t call this blog Fig Jam and Lime Cordial because I’m an arrogant git who has dibs on herself. I didn’t even know what the (Australian?) colloquialism “fig jam” meant until a couple of weeks after I’d started the blog. We really were making fig jam and lime [...]
Colours Of My Kitchen
Posted in Food & Friends, Musings, tagged Callebaut chocolate, chocolate, Emile Henry tagine, Herbies Spices, homemade jam, kitchen colors, kitchen colours, saffron, silicone bakeware, welding gloves on July 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
You know how some people have white kitchens? Everything is white and stainless steel and elegant. That is so not the case at our house. Sure, the benches are white, and we serve dinner on white bone china, but the advent of silicone and plastic has added glorious colour to the room. On a dull [...]
Neighbours
Posted in Food & Friends, Musings, tagged neighbors, neighbours on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have the best neighbours in the universe.
Some of them, like Maude and Pete V, have been our friends for over 25 years and moved into the neighbourhood after we did (we were deeply flattered by the inferred compliment that living near us wasn’t going to drive them bonkers). Others, like Pete and El, have [...]
Milestone
Posted in Food & Friends, Musings on June 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
We’ve reached a milestone!
Fig Jam and Lime Cordial began just four months ago at the end of February 2009, and today we’ve had our 10,000th hit. I know that’s tiny compared to the “serious” bloggers, but for a pet project I play around with on the weekends, that kind of feedback is desperately rewarding.
Thank you [...]
Symbols
Posted in Musings, tagged ampersand, exclamation mark, origin of symbols, question mark on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of birthdays ago, Pete V gave me a book called Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader. Despite the odd title, this volume is an intriguing read, full of fascinating facts that I not only didn’t know, but had never even considered before. I’m reading it slowly, a few pages a day, to allow [...]
Long Weekend
Posted in Musings on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the Queen’s Birthday Weekend, my true love made with me :
12 pizza bases
11 jars of quince jelly
10 tubs of passata
9 jars of eggplant pickles
8 vanilla cupcakes
7 jars of onion marmalade
6 cups of chicken rice
5 soy sauce duck eggs
4 loaves of sourdough
3 jars of lemon curd
2 apple pies
And a cup of caramelised whiiite cho-co-late!! ♥
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