Inspiring reading: Great NYTimes Magazine story about “Opera’s Coolest Soprano,” @DanielledeNiese.
Storytelling: A different perspective.
Innovative branding campaign for HBO.
(There can be *many* sides to stories.)
Closing #musicMonday & welcoming #tunefulTuesday with Chris Botti’s A Thousand Kisses Deep ~
[Montreal Jazz Festival - 2008 performance]
Watermelon purists can rejoice: The fruit *did not* come in contact with a warm pan or olive oil.
My simplified (and reduced-fat) variation of yesterday’s salad recipe includes tossing together diced watermelon, arugula, salad greens, feta cheese, and vinaigrette (a reduction of watermelon juice and balsamic vinegar with cracked black pepper), with a sprinkling of slivered almonds on top.
A warm, crusty baguette and chilled Sheldrake Point 2007 Riesling were good accompaniments.
[Note @counternotions: No pics. :) ]
“Pan-seared watermelon with peppery arugula, anyone?”
Today’s festivities include making this sautéed watermelon, arugula & almond salad (recipe spotted in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune).
To sip with it: Finger Lakes Riesling.
Other wine suggestions?
Effortless. Sunday.
The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is is you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
– Mary Oliver
“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver, from The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays. Beacon Press, 2008.
Math exercise: My cool, keyless Schlage lock (http://bit.ly/gxP5o) may be wider than the area on the door where I intend to install it. :-(
Yes, *I* intend to install it. :-)
Am scrutinizing a template I printed from Schlage’s Web site and am exercising further my math skills.
(I heart home improvement.)
Stay tuned …