Month: August 2020

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Made brown rice & cauliflower sushi to bring to a gathering… really had to overcome my fears to actually RSVP yes. Then began to think how to serve what the host asked me to bring “starch” COVID style. This “starch” actually ended up probably not being “starch” or “carb” as this version of sushi was 30% brown rice; 30% roasted cauliflower; & rest finally chopped veggies roasted – topped with chopped fresh herbs and parsley (could not find nori) and chopped nuts. Instead of one heap of chirashi, this time I decided serve in his/her cups – individually topped with garnish. No one needed to serve in this help-yourself style.

The host adhered to all safety precaustions:

1. Seating 6ft social distance around a big table

2. Mask worn except when eating and drinking.

3. She served every plate so there was no shared serving utensils.

4. She kept the party small – our pod of only 6 …seated around and away from the central table with feasts – low lying so we can see each other over the table.

5. And most appreciated that we were in the great outdoors ！

6. Wish we each had a mat though. Another appetizer could have been a sweet yoga time … to whet our appetite while strengthening our resolve to find small joys even at times of great uncertainty.

Virus, thunder and lightening, mountain fires, hundreds of people fleeing their homes, grim economics if not for S&P but for our main streets where so many small businesses are struggling. What’s next?

Resolved that I will do my little part to bring joy to others. Like these friends who took the time to feed us and shared …a supper and stories. So tired of zooms and screens – May we return to simple pleasures of seeing in person friends and I love pot lucks. Pot lucks!!! Dreaming of pot lucks! Everyone with roof over our heads and safe in the true sense of that word. We can’t individually be safe until everyone is.

It’s back to wartime like sacrifice where we will pactice all safety precautions in a personal level, so we will overcome this period of pain to … come out on the other side of the curve – maybe by Spring 2021?

Then … we will have our potlucks and kids will be back in school. How we took things for granted. Simple pleasures of gathering, sharing … hugging and talking and laughing loudly without caring about airborne droplets.

Those days will come back. We will have that potluck.

Then.

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Iron Lion

I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.

Kamala Harris
This was created by French artists Octave Marsal and Theo De Gueltzl to commemerate the 40th anniversay of this song & tribute towards the 75th Birthday celebration of life of Bob Marley who died age 36 of cancer back in 1981. It was a short life but … messages left behind so powerful.

As far as YOGA, I would be happy to go over Lion’s Pose & Lion’s Breath. Roaring softens the facial muscles, unravel tight knots – Roaring is not only fun but eases muscle tensions, relieves headaches and … brings about fresh clarity. It’s a King of a breath and pose.

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Kamala Harris

“No Women No Cry !”

Racism is real – I have experienced it firsthand. Global warming is real – we are experiencing it. The Pandemic is real – it’s not a hoax. Science is real – it’s not fake news; Data is real – facts don’t lie. Violence & Divsion are real – we need to overcome them. Having worked in Congressional district office as an intern while at Cal, I cannot be more thrilled to see someone so REAL. Finally, someone we can get excited about ! Someone of humble origin who understands the realities of regular folks ! Someone not corrupted by material greed and hate!

Someone … intelligent !

Before all the quotes and soundbites of politics, I focus on the ordinary beauty of this human being …quotes of Kamala Harris:

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

I do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.

Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress a hundred days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws. If they fail to do it, then I will take executive action.

Finally, Sanity & Integrity …

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

& Empathy !

I learned that Kamala means … LOTUS and we know how lotus blooms, in spite of the mud. Many of us may feel we are mired in and stuck in the mud, but … there’s hope, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

May we bloom like the lotus, at home in muddy waters.

Buddha
Everything’s going to be alright !

I put this link posted on YouTube, a concert at Harvard Square which would have been packed had it not been restricted to only take place during the day. Apparently relegated to daytime event rather than the usual evening concert due to fears that his concert would bring down the house. His concerts would NORMALLY be FULL PACKED and would have brought down the house – Just like what’s happening now – The convention would normally be packed but not this time. STILL, still the message … can virtually bring down the house.

“It’s a conscious time NOW …Everyone has the answer.”

Bob Marley