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Past New Year Osechi

We did not feel up to celebrating with “Osechi” New Years feast, which is the traditional Japanese auspicious foods served on the first day of New Year. Felt out of respect for our lonely mother spending the day without any family, we will just have a “nice” dinner and departed from the tradition of the past. Just letting go the idea of what something should look like – just letting go the fixed ideas, flushing that out to bring in the new.

Still …

Reminiscing the good old days with deep longing – and that good old days, we all know, was not that long ago… We are praying for a reenactment- a gathering to remember- we all have that story to share. We all have that longing.

May 2021 be a brighter year filled with light and clarity where goodness and justice prevails and our health and intelligence is restored.

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Baked Castella thinking about my mother whom I have not seen since February last year …

Everyone has a story. We all endured what it feels like to have plans and intentions thwarted and go awry. That was 2020.

We do what we can to send out good will prayers and vibrations into the universe. This is 2021!

Of course Mitsu begs for honey drenched Japanese-Portuguese cake …as Mitsu is the Honey! Mitsu is Japanese for the honey colored golden red Shiba that she is.

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Eating In

  • Thank you Friend !
  • cooked on grill but leaned another way … all good:)
  • holiday lettace has red markings
  • thin wide pasta and kale
  • butternut squash made into
  • soup
  • homemade pizza and
  • salad
  • sour dogh crust
  • dutch oven bread
  • baked and
  • sliced to serve with
  • EV Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar …with herbs

A friend gave us brussel sprouts still on the stem – so fun:) It’s not bitter at all when so fresh. It’s been so long since I’ve eaten at a restaurant … but honestly … while I do want the restaurants to survive this and all the small businesses to survive this period, it’s a good time to keep busy by paying more attention to how we nourish ourselves. It’s a very wierd time where there’s so much abundance back to back with so much scarcity … There’s scarcity in our energy level and delights as worries and fear weigh us down – Just eating simple and cutting down on energy sucking foods and thoughts. All we can do is to be as well prepared as we can be; and dream and plan for that day when we leave the four walls and step outside fully liberated from this time of ultra vigilence from threats we cannot see. I cannot wait for that day of liberation.