It’s cold here in New Jersey, so I thought you would enjoy a trip in time back to last June when my family visited Rosh HaNikra in northern Israel.
It’s a fun place for a family to visit, but beware, there are rumors of a ghost bride.
And then we headed south, down the Mediterranean coast. You can see my daughter’s pink hat peering southward.
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For many years this was the Corner Confectionery. Then that little ice cream shop/candy store on South Third Avenue closed its doors, and a FOR LEASE sign haunted the windows for several months. About a month ago the sign disappeared. I wonder what it will be?
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Two thoughts on how this happiness needs to be tempered:
1) This year marks the first anniversary of the terrible murder of 8 teenage students from Merkaz HaRav in Jerusalem.
2) It is a custom to drink alcohol on Purim. However, one must always take care of one’s health and the health of others. Therefore, if you or family members do not know how to drink responsibly, don’t. We don’t need the happy day of Purim to turn to tragedy.
Photo Memes:
Today’s Flowers
Blue Monday: Cat
Sepia Scenes: Is it the 1950’s?
Thursday Challenge: Pink
Haveil Havalim the Lots to Read Edition
Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal Photos (and a link to the recipe)
Glass Houses (a parsha post)
I have a Whaddya See for book lovers scheduled for Saturday night…
Happy Birthday, Michelle
Ilana-Davita: A Few Thoughts on Commenting
Film Friday: Lego Editon (stop motion by son of Mrs. S.)
Web Design Trends 2009 (inspirational design)
Discover What Traditional Chinese Medicine Knows about Mushrooms
Two different cultures, similar issues:
An Abuse of Belief
Violence UnSilenced
Rashi quotes the above phrase from Bava Metzia 59b in reference to Exodus 22:20 —
So I said to my husband: is this a bit like “People who live in glass houses should not throw stones”? And my husband responded, but even if you weren’t a stranger in Egypt, you shouldn’t abuse a stranger.
But I don’t think it’s a good idea for people who live in brick houses to throw stones, do you?
Have you ever eaten a sea vegetable? If you’ve had sushi, then you have. The nori wrapper on the outside of the sushi is seaweed; it comes from the sea. Recently, I’ve been working at adding some seaweed into my diet. I bought some Eden© Mekabu, a wakame sea vegetable sporophyll, and every now and then I sprinkle it into soup or rice or noodles. Seaweed takes a while to get used to, but I am beginning to enjoy its distinct flavor.
Because I ask Klara so many questions about macrobiotics, she suggested I subscribe to the Macrobiotic Guide. Here’s how they answered a question of mine:
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Q: Why is it so important to add sea vegetables to one’s diet? Leora
A: Sea vegetables are nutrient-rich, unlike any other food I have discovered. They provide essential vitamins and minerals I cannot find in other foods I choose to incorporate into my diet. I think of them as the nerve center for my body. Without them, I feel lacking. I can fill my belly with volumes of food but without incorporating sea vegetables into my diet, my hunger will continue unabated until I provide it with those essential nutrients found in sea vegetables. (That is the purpose of “hunger.” It is the natural impulse that drives us; when rightly understood, it guides us toward the right foods, in the right quantity, at the right time.)
Without sea vegetables, I grope for foods that fill but do not satisfy. Organic foods are wonderful and vitally important – for many reasons – but even organic foods might be grown in deficient soil, yielding deficient plants.
Denudation is the natural process where minerals are carried off by wind and water from land into the sea. As a result, over millions of years of this geological process, we find a rich depository of nutrients in our oceans. For this reason, sea vegetables have become nutrient-rich unlike all other foods.
This is how sea vegetables affect me personally. This is not to say people cannot live well without them. Historically, traditional diets around the globe have provided healthful foods without the incorporation of sea vegetables. But looking around me today, traditional diets have all but vanished, and soil quality has become impoverished through poor soil/farming practices, making sea vegetables all the more important. There are medicinal values to them as well. Jeffrey Reel
Find out more about sea vegetables at http://macrobiotics.co.uk/seavegetables.htm.
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So, do you think you might try some sea vegetables? More on seaweed soon.
Thursday Challenge theme this week is: PINK (Candy, Birds, Flowers, Cheeks, Toys,…).
No, it’s South Fourth Avenue, taken with my camera set to sepia color!
See the post below for sepia photos of homemade bread.
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I made two loaves of Mimi’s delicious Quinoa Bread with Oatmeal on Monday. I had fun playing with the different color settings on my camera.
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