Ecclesiastes
Whatever you do, do well. Ecclesiastes 9:10 NLT
Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLT
Respect and obey God. This is what life is all about. Ecclesiastes 12:13 CEV
Enjoy prosperity while you can, but when hard times strike, realize that both come from God. Remember that nothing is certain in this life. Ecclesiastes 7:14 NLT
Rumi – The Essential Rumi
The fragile vial inside me often breaks. Be Melting Snow
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd’s love filling you. A Community of the Spirit
Anthony Bourdain – Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly 25th Anniversary
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
Why venture into an industry with enormous fixed expenses…,with a notoriously transient and unstable workforce, and highly perishable inventory of assets? The chances of ever seeing a return on your investment are about one in five. What insidious spongiform bacteria so riddles the brains of men and women that they stand there on the tracks, watching the lights of the oncoming locomotive, knowing full well it will eventually run them over? After all these years in the business, I still don’t know.
Bacteria love hollandaise. Nobody I know has ever made hollandaise to order. Hollandaise is a veritable petri-dish of biohazards.
Maya Angelou
…Out of the huts of history’s shame – I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain – I rise… Still I Rise
I have a certain way of being in this world, And I shall not, I shall not be moved. As for me, I shall not be moved… Our Grandmothers
Wishing you a happy, healthy first week of August! How can we be here already?!
Tales from a Mid-Lifer 
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