Recipes

Links to recipes that look good to me!

• Fresh Cranberry Sauce (my own minor variation on a basic theme! Its tasty!)
• Nutritional Information on Veggies! (good for you!)
  
• Banana Nut Bread

• Buckeyes: Hey! You got peanut butter on my chocolate!
  

Thought Waves

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round. Hmm... what song is that? Is this for real? I mean am I sitting still for a photo?

I (thats me over to the left -- ruff, ruff) didn't get much sleep last night since I had to romp around my boss' bed around 12:30AM. Who cares, he doesn't have to work anyway since his christmas break starts today. He likes to call me "Sedona" but I prefer "Lakshmi" since I provide him with everything he needs. I'm such a good girl -- oh ya, I'm such a good girl.

2006 To Do List (Due by May 31, 2006)

These items need to be completed by May 31, 2006

Finish exterior remodeling on house
Put up remaining soffet area tongue and groove
Select and install new door bell switch on outside
Run low voltage doorbell wire from doorbell to transformer
Ring door bell!
Finish small trim at top corners of door:

• get pieces of wood
  
• size wood and paint
  
• install
  

sand/stain/finish interior side of door
finish interior demolition

Finish drip system (this needs to be itemized)

Find an interior decorator/architect to help with interior

Open The US/Mexican Border to Workers/Immigrants

Immigration policy is a failure -- especially with regard to Mexican immigrants. Witness the millions of illegal/undocumented Mexicans living in the US. Witness the millions if not billions of dollars expended on patrolling the US/Mexican border. Witness the thousands of Mexicans who die trying to cross into this country through very hot deserts with little or no water. Witness the massive expenditures extending benefits (such as health care and education) to undocumented workers in border states such as California, Arizona and New Mexico.

I'm not sure if the dollars work, but here is a suggestion. Open up the borders. Allow Mexicans to freely come to the US and live here if they wish. The caveat is that all workers regardless of country of origin must be registered/documented. By opening up the borders, the $s spent patrolling the borders can be redirected to enforcing documentation. By documenting workers additional taxes may be collected which would go towards minimizing the burdeon on the rest of society.

No documents. No work. One approach to enforcing this policy is the social security card. We just need to enforce and utilize this system to the fullest extent. Immigration, whether legal or illegal is a fact. I think we should make a bold move and open the borders at the same time that we get tough on documentation.

I just want LOVE: Read my blog for God's Sake!

I can't find it now, but I stumbled across someone's blog the other day that really rang true for me: "read my blog for god's sake!"

Every time I think about it I laugh but on a deeper level the question sounds to me like: "Why do I want to blog again?" For example, checkout this blog about a journalist from alaska. He openly admits that at the end of a long day he really just doesn't feel like searching his "brain for something witty to say." I have seen other blogs with comments like: I hope to be more inspired tomorrow. Its weird because I'm not a journalist and I just started blogging and I feel the same way. What's up with that? Why must I feel compelled to be witty or have the most inspired webpage?

I see all these very sophisticated page set-ups, all these nice pictures, and on and on. Blogs are like virtual fishing lures fishing for web denizen's and surfers. But they are also like fishing marathons because you never really land the fish. You have to keep them coming back with all of your witty comments and inspired images and etc, etc, etc...

Lets be honest here. We all just want a little $love :)

Adam and Eve

I really like the explanation given by Swami Sri Yukteswar on the symbolism in Genesis.

Rodin's "The Thinker"

Where's the Passion

Is passion one of those things that is conserved -- as in the "conservation of mass?" As we get older do we loose that sense of abandon and sit on our hands while the next generation runs off and has all the fun? I have always had a passion about Alaska since I spent my formative years growing up in a small town called Homer. My goal of somehow working Homer back into my life is always in the back of my mind and I have made some progress on that but its never enough. I live thousands of miles away and have thousands of reasons (as in dollars and sense?) why I can't just get up and show up in Homer as apparently Jill did. Then again she is nearly 20 years younger than me and she also has an amazing amount of enthusiasm and passion for what she is doing. Its really quite exciting to see and on some level I am jealous. But it really wasn't that long ago that I threw caution to the wind and moved from Homer to Anchorage to Hawaii to Texas to Virginia to Texas and finally to New Mexico. [ASIDE:If your from Homer and your (still?) reading this and you have lived there since prior to the "beginning of time or 1986" as Jill says (which by the way is almost the beginning of time for her if she really is 26) then with a little investigative work you may be able to determine just who I am.] Well "caution to the wind" is really not accurate. I had a passion for what I was doing and that passion dragged me from place to place. But somehow my momentum has dissipated and I have been sitting here in NM for 8 years. Sometimes after several cups of java I go into orbit and almost get enough momentum to fly off on some other trajectory. But that coffee buzz wears off and I return to my safe and steady path which includes a good government job with good pay and solid health insurance. Where's the passion? Did it get transfered to Jill and her generation through some cosmological quantum physics process (otherwise called aging) that is invisibly but inevitably working on us all?

Distant pair of eagles on the beach

Inaugural Post

I've got to take my dog for a walk.