Tag: food

True Loves – 23rd September 2022

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Sick and tired of freedom
I want to be a slave
I need to be kept in line
And told how to behave
I’ll gladly give up some rights
Just tell me what to do
I want someone else to think for me
I want it to be you

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

Jean-Luc Godard

Today I’m feeling:
Happy
Today I’m grateful for:
All the many choices of different and delicious foods available so close to my home. It’s not often that I can’t decide or find what I want to eat.
The best thing about today was:
Listening to my student Feije singing and playing guitar. It’s great to see one of my students passionate about playing something other than mobile games or TikTok. She ran all the way over to the guitar room to bring one back to the classroom as I let them have free time. I also had fun with Mee, Yok and Kam with a silly fun game they had on their phone and also with another group of girls playing Uno.

I took this picture because Tokyo was in a friendly happy mood today and she’s lovely when she’s like that. She’s very possessive of what she perceives as her things and will quickly and easily bite you if you go near them.

The Week That Was – 23rd December 1979

What’s Missing? – 7th September 2022

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You’re only seeing the red pill
Or maybe just the green
Oblivious to the fact
The green pill left unseen

When the choice is one or two
Always search for three
Sometimes you’ll find four or five
If you look long enough to see

16th Nov 2024 – Shared with the Word of the Day Challenge – missing

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.

Ernest Hemingway

Today I’m grateful for:
The chef in the kitchen in the shop next door to Utopia, who remembered that I wanted food without meat and made delicious fried rice with chilli that had me sweating so hard I needed a shower when I got home.
The best thing about today was:
Having fun with all the kids who were cooking as part of their scout week. They were very playful and happy.

I took this picture because this unfinished building always fascinates me. I guess it was going to be a hotel. It is located next to the river and is an easy drive into town. I fanaticise about turning it into a punk house for world travellers and having shows there.

Think Tank Babies – 18th August 2022

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A motion tabled, around it went
Carried advice for the government
A cache of dollars were duly spent
In pursuit of a father’s dreams
A place in first must be maintained
The remainder must remain remained
And tough decisions are never explained
All must be not what it seems

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

Charles Bukowski

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the folks around me who provide me with food. I have many options available.

Words Of No Inspiration – 16th August 2022

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Not very inspired today
Not sure what to say
And I’ve got no choice
I have to do it anyway

Waiting to rejoin the flow
Got to get up and go
I have to get it done
It’s the truth, I know

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets…Aim for the starrs. Keep grinning…Argue with the world.

Salman Rushdie

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to Nut and Bruno for dropping my cake, bread and breadsticks to me yesterday. I have more food than I can eat at home now!

Fatman report

Paint It White – 11th August 2022

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Blocked out, little emotion left inside
No meaning carries a meaning that’s implied
Words left unsaid, let actions speak louder
Paint it all white and sprinkle it with powder
Every town’s memory, slowly being removed
Every complex conspiracy, slowly being disproved
We’re gonna make it right through to the end
Paint it all white to signal the angel to descend

We all believe we are masters in the realms of opinion and reasoning.

Robert Greene

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for all the food Amy and her parents made that is in my freezer. I can eat cheaply for many days.

Red Lines Drawn – 2nd August 2022

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Crazy colonialists came
Before they left again
Revoked rights remain
Creating wars the same
Arbitrary lines drawn
To ancient enemies sworn
Peoples, ripped and torn
Nations divide in scorn

‘Freedom’ is nothing more than the leash on which we allow the masses to run. They do not want to be free.

Pat Mills (?), Third World War, Crisis Magazine

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that Amy spent a day preparing meals for me to freeze and eat later.

The Week That Was – 7th October 1979

Selfie – 20th July 2022

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Another selfie makes us unhealthy
Pic after pic makes us sick
Mental disaster, depressing faster
A selfie smile, gone out of style

The revolutionary thinker must go beyond thought. He knows that almost all his best ideas come to him when thinking has stopped.

Alan Watts

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful to be able to eat Amy’s home-cooked food again. Better than any shop.

Single Mum, Only Child – 5th June 2022

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What would I have been with you?
All I’ve ever known is without
Can I lay the blame at your door
For my years of anxiety and doubt?
And if you had been here
Would I have just followed your lead?
Adopted a view of the world
In which we both had agreed
Not knowing what may have been
I can only compare with others
I never knew you but I miss you
My father, sisters and brothers

When people learn – as I doubt they will – that they can’t get something for nothing, crime will diminish and we shall all live in greater harmony.

Joseph Weil

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful that I managed to buy some food yesterday afternoon looking around the shops and stalls two times without finding anything that got me salivating. Just a 7-11 microwave rice and a pack of salad but it was just what I needed.

Dust – 28th February 2022

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‘I am a piece of fallen skin’
‘I am a broken hair from a spider’s leg’
‘I am from dirt the cat tramped in’
We three wait
In a corner close to the walls
Behind and beside the washing machine
We see the day come and go
And we wait
Ants wander by often, lizards, sometimes, too
The cat peers under the machine
About once a week
And we wait
One day the machine is gone
And all traces of worldly humans
Soon the plaster and brick will crumble
And we wait
We see the weeds encroaching
Pushing through every crack
The wind will never find us here
And the heat and cold bother us not
And we wait
Now there is only darkness
Every living thing has disappeared
We float away in space
Waiting for a reformation

7th Nov 2024 – Shared with Ragtag Daily Prompt – dust

The most important skill of a species intelligent enough to understand both their insignificance and their mortality is the capability for distraction.

Tim Urban

Gratitude Journal

I am so happy and grateful for the great variety of food I can find where I live. It’s still new and refreshing to me.

The Week That Was – 1st April 1979