coffee bread

Haiku

New Year's Clothing Drive
Not in Roget's Thesaurus,
No, not Leotard

Cookies

Cookies - Almond Crescents, Chocolate Chip, and Finnish Almond Shortbread.

This morning there were so many beautiful Herring Gulls, they flew along on the snow and stood on the ice.

Tacoma Reads Together 2009

Books that include cooking help the reading along. A lot of reading happens in kitchens - the new book choice for Tacoma Reads Together gives the readers a lot of food.

The Tacoma Reads Together selection for 2009 is Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, she refers to the non-cooking idea that placed a demand on females, I remember it from the 1980's. Mixing bowls were not supposed to happen.

I became interested in the transportation options in her community, because when I skimmed through searching for references to the local transportation system where she lives, I found it was all car, car car. And the first paragraph ends with mention of her driveway. Although her work with local food is concerned with produce that travels long distances she does not use public transportation for her own needs.

At the website for the small town near her home I find a description of a bus that stopped there in the late nineteen fifties. It reminds me of the difficulty faced by hard-working poorer people when those who have a choice go along with the car choice of the very affluent. Their bus route vanishes and poorer peoples lives are that much harder.

low sun like butterscotch disk

Late afternoon the sun along the city scape like a butterscotch disk, a dozen chickadees are in the lilac bush - the sky is still very light and they are making their sounds like chickadees.

The Emigrants - Book Group Discussion

Today was the Books at 12:10 book group discussion of The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg. I brought in a map of Skansen and the 125th Anniversary Booklet of First Lutheran Church of Tacoma, Washington. The novel is historic preservation of the characters intimate feelings and subconscious motivations. The Carnegie Library, over a hundred years old, faces on the earliest site of First Lutheran Church across the street. The Emigrants sailed in 1950, Peter Carlson emigrated in 1854 and in the 1880's toured the Pacific Northwest to found Lutheran churches. There was a lot of appreciation and discussion about refugees and the roles of women and about social reform in Sweden. We stuck to the novel primarily.

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