Couldn’t resist sharing just one more bit from Li-Young Lee’s poem, “Virtues of a Boring Husband”…
“Maybe it’s true, what sages have said,
I don’t know if I’m remembering it right.
Something about moving up a ladder of love
Maybe we learn
to love a person, say, first as object
and then as presence, and then as essence,
and then as disclosure [...]
Archive for November 14th, 2008
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14 Nov
Cooking, Needles and Poetry
Tonight I finally got around to making soup from the leftover chicken I roasted on Monday. I really hadn’t planned on actually cooking anything tonight, but I was pretty sure the chicken was minutes away from salmonella setting in, so I couldn’t put it off any longer. I was amazed at how quick and easy it [...]
