I‘m on a business trip so dining alone at Olive Garden. A chance by myself to read!
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I‘m on a business trip so dining alone at Olive Garden. A chance by myself to read!
My lovely greengrocer gave me a punnet of a sprouting plant called Atsina® Cress. All I found about this mystery plant is: “This cress is named after an old North American tribe, the Atsina Indians. They used the leaves of this plant to make a warm sweet drink to ease the pain when they had a sore throat“ https://www.koppertcress.com/en/products/atsina-r-cress and no mention of the plant's common or latin name. Any idea what this is?
#Naturalitsy
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
As a Texas Longhorn I‘m not sure I can tolerate a book where a character is going to A&M. The Longhorns have what they believe to be a healthy rivalry against Texas A&M, but I‘ve learned recently from parents whose kids go there, A&M actually has a Freshman orientation about how much they have to hate the Longhorns. It‘s really weird and a lot of wasted energy to encourage hate. 😕
#foodandlit #Spain @Catsandbooks
The bark of this white poplar tree is covered in kisses 💋 🌳😄
pickI really liked this one. I thought it was a really fun time. It's just super chatoic the whole time. I liked the game ascpet and the action just kept coming. This isn't like a hard-hitting crazy thriller. It's just a fun time. 4/5
#5joysFriday
1) daughter moved back home from college
2) son‘s rocket ship has been assembled and awaiting finishing touches to take off in White Sands, NM next month
3) son got awards in senior awards ceremony today for grades and for guitar 🎸
4) cuddles from my kitty 🐈⬛ during reading time
5) starting a new #foodandlit country: Spain! 🇪🇸
#two4Tuesday Thanks @TheSpineView for the tag!
1) A collection of short stories called A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga
2) Tagged, because every book I‘ve read by this author is so good
pickAnother Bourdain deep dive - my sixth this year! This one is a collection of photo essays documenting the first two/three seasons of No Res. Looking back, it was a really pivotal time in the direction of his TV career. They still had a lean crew and no special lighting/sound more like Cook‘s Tour, but he was also starting to make the interesting thematic and creative choices that would be a hallmark of Parts Unknown. Plus Beirut is included iykyk.
