Tag Archives: gathering

Nov27

a gathering ground.

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on thanksgiving, and every day

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‘the table is a meeting place, a gathering ground,

the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction.

a person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

-laurie colwin

*Laurie Colwin was  an American author known for her witty and elegant fiction, as well as her popular food essays.  She wrote five novels and three short story collections. Colwin also wrote a food column for Gourmet magazine, which led to two acclaimed essay-cookbook collections, . She died unexpectedly at the age of 48. 

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art credit: jess bessie/pinterest

Jul3

invincibly young.

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‘lots of good, cheap food, and dozens of beers’

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celebrating four family birthdays

 12 to 73 years old

at casey’s tavern

neighborhood favorite

 historic building

once a lumberyard

casual, relaxed, friendly

nothing fancy

eclectic menu

we were happy, loud, full, laughing

a win for the day and a win for the birthdays.

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‘nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit.’

*george santayana

 

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*Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as Geroge Santayana, (1863 – 1952), was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.

 

Nov23

on thanksgiving day.

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“i would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

-gilbert k. chesterton

 

 

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art credit: karen davis, by frost and candlelight

Nov22

getting ready.

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as we prepare to gather together in a few days

often with all kinds of people

 often anticipating how it will go

 often happily surprised. 

 

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“it’s never the differences between people that surprise us.

it’s the things, that against all odds, we have in common.”

-jodi picoult

 

 

 

 

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photo credit: muppets.disney.com

 

Nov24

more alive.

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awaiting tomorrow’s gathering.

 

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“this is the power of gathering

it inspires us – delightfully

to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful

in a word, more alive.”

-alice waters

 

 

 

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art credit: Debbie and Mike Schramer, using treasures they gathered from the forest.

Nov22

gathering.

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“this is the power of gathering:

it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful:

in a word, more alive.”

-alice waters

Nov1

november gathering.

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the kinders and their fall collection.

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