PWG Writers Archive: May 2014

Friday, May 23, 2014

The Red Balloon: Friday Poem

Let go , serendipitous, to rise, bob and float on supple breezes.
Your snaking string strolls out of reach.
Detached forms here, where once coexisted ground and buoyancy, an anchored ship.
I jump once, twice in my powder blue sneakers, feet strapped in for landing, rubber of soul.
Soles, the striped or floral cushions under which we find straggling minted coins, crinkled transparent candy wrappers and rough/smooth terrain.
Gravity wrestles with my momentum.
His bony fingers curl around my grazed ankles amidst the heady scent of cherry blossoms,those lacy bursts.
I imagine you will be dashed in hail and rain, the malaise of storms, helpless in your vertical lift.
Past is your reflection in my eyes, the colour of your red coat, a pretty envelope for air, a plain chord of a wrist bracelet.
Your expanded form, so light, here with me, at the horizon's edge.
Reduce, shrink you are a single crimson dot.
Calms of cerulean skies open to you.

Deceptive is this singular perception of dot and calm,
even as you coast and dip, unfettered, light- catcher in a satin skin.
You are a dark blood red reflection spreading in the eye of the approaching hawk.
The arcing graceful swoop, rudder in wings, natural flight, suggests an avoidance of the floating anomaly in her aerial zone.
The new red balloon continues the ascension nonplussed.

Inflated balloon, the sky is no limit
Read-past tense
Pop!

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Thursday, May 22, 2014

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Food for Thought: What's in Your Pockets?


Impatience

I was having a conversation with hubby about healthy snacks, the art of the grilled cheese and pre-meal hunger chasers and this gave me the idea for a little experiment. I had a few pita pockets handy, a scantily packed fridge and cupboard that contained a few resources. I was nowhere near the grocery store but there was plenty to see. Time to get inventive without throwing good taste into the storm cellar as dinner hour was fast approaching. Lions, and Tigers and Bears Oh my. ;) (Wizard of Oz)

As hubby headed up to the loft to listen to a few tunes, I dawned my hat and headed out into the spectacular outdoors for a little tete to tete with Bar B Q. She's a doll when it comes to outdoor cooking and flavorful coal fired grilling.You can also add mesquite seasoned wood chips to the coals for an added smoky mesquite flavor. Warning: Please do not gnaw on the chips, as you would a stick of raw sugar cane, stick to what is on the grill.. :)Just say'n as the scent of mesquite can be alluringly distracting to the hungry. Incidentally, I have tried sugar cane, raw, delicious!

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."

Luckily the wind came up dispelling the hoard of little black flies away from my netted ear canals, eyes and mouth even as I hummed a few bars from "The Little Black Fly Song" in hopes of respite from the swarm. Facial orifices are an attraction for them much to my chagrin. With the bugs now at bay, I lit the BBQ for dinner preparations and a little culinary adventure. Bedecked in my bear bells, I thought it might be easy to add the pitas to the grill with a small cube of cheese of choice stuffed in the pocket, while I cooked the chicken. The air was weighted with a silence interspersed with a concert of bird song. Those melodies. so varied, exist as a form of identification and communication of birds, the vertebrata, classification. They are the ornithologists delight and the originators of tunes long before we humans knew how to strum a guitar, or gauge our vocal chords for the purpose of producing scales and notes for perfect pitch.


Chicken with garlic, and Montreal Chicken Spice+ Grilled Cheese Pita

Ode de BBQ was an enticing cologne in this sequestered habitat as I adjusted the flame listening less for the sizzle of chicken than the wash of ripples and gentle whisper of currents in the stream just off my right shoulder.

Once I had grilled the non-meat pitas and achieved a slight "pinking" of the chicken, it was time to move indoors. Quick twist: With the wrist and hand close the valve on the propane tank and flick the dials to off. It is a most interesting turn of events and saves you from empty tanks as the propane dissipates out of the open top BBQ into the air... or worse, imagine and do the quick twist.


What's in Your Pocket: Monster Mouth, Frills and Hail Caesar

I have always found pockets and book shelves to be the most intriguing source for understanding any given human. In my own pockets I have discovered that memory stick that I forgot about. I have also found coins and bills, to my delight, as this feels deceptively like free money but is the change from your last purchase. Pockets are also references for groups of people, herds of animals or smaller conglomerates, gathering in a wider venue. Today we will have a look at the pita pocket as all three are united into the tasty pre- meal hunger chaser already mentioned. Pockets simply carry small handy items, can be filled or emptied, used on your clothing or externally. Case, envelope are close relatives or synonyms.

Historic: A library book had a pocket in the back for a card that was stamped for date due. We used to have 2 pockets for name cards of children who needed to go out of the classroom to the washroom. They went in pairs and did not need to wait to ask the teacher if they remained responsible in their choices. The teacher and students also knew where the child was in the event of an emergency.

The Pocket: What a simple and magnificent invention , when you think about. I am sure you know of many more uses for the pocket space.

Here are pockets with potential for carrying you into a food adventure. Enjoy. Fill er up. :)

Monster Pita Pocket
Ingredients
-12 mini Pita pockets ( whole wheat or white) grilled on the BBQ with a square or two tbsps of grated of cheddar cheese. Try other cheeses that go with the ingredients listed below. -Feel free-
-1/2 cup of farm fresh corn (already out ahead of season, ahh the miracles of innovation or smart farms beyond the use of growth hormones)
-Medium size grilled chicken(breast, thigh or drumstick, remove skin). You can also use lean ground beef if that is easier or leave out the meat altogether for a vegetarian treat.
-Sauce Choices : Hot Sauce Salsa, Chili, Chutney or Mango Pickle (India)
Salsa: Use 1 tbsp per pita and I recommend the other sauces, for chicken, in quantities to taste. The hot sauce can be added to any one of the others or used alone.

Directions
-Place small cubes of grilled chicken in the grilled pita with cheese.
-Add sauce of choice.
-Finally add steamed corn ( 12-15 min. in boiling water) cut the cooked kernels off the cob with a sharp knife close to the cob or use canned corn ( warmed) if you must.

Serves 4

Pretty in Green Frills
This pocket is the same as above. The exception is that you are stuffing it with a chicken Caesar salad and you do not have to grill the pocket. If you make your own Caesar dressing, this is even better and the grilled chicken is the same as above. Try not to rip the pitas when stuffing. You many want to make the frill (romaine lettuce pieces) tiny if you do not like the flamboyancy of the greenery hanging out of the opening. Enjoy according to pocket style choices.

Caesar Dressing
Ingredients
1/4 cup vegetable oil
2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
1 tbsp white wine vinegar
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
3 tbsp mayonnaise

Mix all the ingredients together and let rest overnight or for a few hours so the flavors will meld. Keep refrigerated until use.Donated to me from a friend. "Yummy" her and I agree. Enjoy.

Hail Egg Caesar

Ingredients
-12 small pita pockets, bite size.
-3 boiled eggs, shells removed.
-Homemade Caesar dressing (above) , as opposed to mayo, added to taste and to moisten the mashed egg mix
-Sprinkle of paprika
- Light splash of freshly squeezed orange juice or grapefruit juice if you like sour next to sweet of dressing. Careful not to flood the mixture. The fruit is a nice flavor addition to the creamy and it does not curdle from the acidic base unless you add too much.
- 1/4 cup of chopped green pepper or 1 celery stalk, tiny pieces.

Directions
-Mix together the egg and dressing.
-Add fresh orange juice, 12-14 drops, adjust to taste preferences and stir lightly.
-Add green peppers, tiny cubes, the size of the smallest lego blocks and stir lightly.
-Gently open the pitas, not grilled but you can heat them in the micro if you like it hot, and stuff them with the mix. Be careful to use a soft touch so as not to rip the pockets.
-Sprinkle lightly with paprika for colour and added flavor.

Serves 4

To all of this I added some cherry tomatoes and rings of raw coloured peppers. Yummmmm
You can serve each of these recipes as one flavor on separate occasions or mix and match depending on the number of guests, the time you have and availability of ingredients. Find your fave and stick with it , have all three or add some of your own inventions. You can also adjust the size to serve as large pita pockets and adjust all the quantities accordingly. This makes for a healthy, zesty lunch. Yummmmmm.

What's in your pockets? Enjoy with family and friends. :)

A Pocket of Canadian Geese

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Vampires , Sex and Blood: Is it possible?

We have all read tales of Vampires. One of the characteristics of vampires is that their life force was rejuvenated if they drank the blood of young girls. Basically it was a form of sex. The male vampire had sex with a young healthy female and the mesmirsed her and dra k her blood. A very famous tale is of Count Dracula, a novel written by Bram Stoker.

Can such a weird thing be possible? On the face, it looks absurd, but new scientific experiments do bring forth some startling facts. Older mice were given blood transfusion from youngrr mice and it was observed that older mice became healthier. This nothing short of revolutionery. Could it be applied to humans ? Well its good to think if it, but not practical. In any case God is a great leveller and what he gives he takes something away. So just relax and look for a younger girl for sex. That IS a great rejuvenater.

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

P.H._D>

The dynamic quest to uncover, rediscover, avoid the need for undercover, discover are all the angles in A Story (proper noun) is amiable, alluring and elusive. The process for exposing any given anomaly through fiction, imagined imitations of aspects of reality, or truth includes a range of details splayed across value scales like the grays in a sketch. The Story is weighted heavily in a finer sense of pragmatism and intuition. It is lifted floating in a wanderlust of dazzling heights, a vermillion feather on those supple wind currents of compassion and knowledge. At the end of it all, not the in apocalyptic sense, but merely in the completion of this idea, a complicated balance, inconvenient, is found in the emerging conclusion. *The Hope*.

Some exposures and the creative fair consequences of these are easier to fathom then others especially when the villian or villians are obviously irretrievably that. An antagonist constructed in a flat one dimensional manner in the story line will show us this about life, as well. To live beyond dimensions or across them is hard. Think of living beyond any given moment and into the next few > 100trillion, 2 billion, 300million 456 thousand times on a regular basis while circling the globe at light speed. WOW! Well, maybe not all that. ;)

<But>

Deeply entrenched roots, are not easily removed. The extrication is often damaging to the landscape- a hole- as erosion sets in, and other plants are damaged in the uprooting. Better if the tufts of grass, weeds, seeds, new trees, with less rooted systems, be plucked, planted, pruned, watered and maintained for everyone's enjoyment and good health. Guided but not controlled in their growth by well appointed gardeners and natural means through wind and storms.

Simply said, preparation for the future across and beyond objects like crystal balls, obelisks, oracles and tarot cards is the essence of the present, the Y.O.L.O. of it all. Media, literature, the arts and film lend us a hand, offer a vision.

Beyond gardening tips and figurative language, we have arrived at the head stand moment in the yoga class of our discussion. The guest is now a cover, specifically and literally a book cover. Ohh I happen to have one here and I have permission to use it from the author. =Easy=

On this cover, if you choose to buy the book, there is a very interesting detail on the side of the mountain. The top most figure in the imagined evolution, in this truly well crafted, thought provoking and lol book, and it is a key to the next novel. Covers, like this one, often set the tone along with the title for the content when carefully chosen. A Story always has a good cover.

I certainly needed my P.H._D to tell you this. I am after all Perfectly Human (yes, that means I have flaws) and the first initial of my name is identifying me and a minor contribution to the Alphabetical Assembly for shared use in the effort to craft communications of all kinds. :) I now afforded us the most sanguine moment for a little talk about education as a most compelling topic for our times.

On one end of the spectrum education, as an institution, has not yet made a student of the robot but possibly a master. If they attended a local University, what would be their double Major? Would they live in a dorm room with the human students or would they find a corner stand in the communal computer lounge? Robotics is definitely a rainbow for the enhancements it brings to our defenses and quality of life but there is always the threat of a storm, dare I say apocalypse, as many suggest. Just say'n. The Zombie(the viral on virus) of film, video, books is getting a little heavy competition from the engineered real time plethora of robots. Seems like there is quite the line up for the destruction of humanity theories, past, now present and in the future.

Did you know we need never seek an education on how to play the violin, dance, write or even concern ourselves with the distinction of species as....there is a robot for that. This phrase may replace the "there is an app for that" predecessor. We are circling the balance of educated artificial intelligence, the new frontier, in relation to human augmentation. Reasonable progress with a 360 degree understanding and awareness of ripples would be a rare gift for any human or human team. What will be the future effects? ))))))


Trees Grow Mighty Roots

Scared, feeling apathetic or just plain ignoring it all. No, when we talk about education, enlightenment and foundations in learning, as they relate to later accomplishments we are finding the gold flakes in glass balls, the true riches. Learning always accompanies expansion in thought along with a deeper understanding of complex boundaries, ideas but also tolerance, compassion and culture. What is a mind without a heart, an intuition and a finer sense of things. The P.H.(Perfect Human) level does not deny us this in the whirlpool of life. *The Fight*

In the end, yes, a kind of apocalypse has occurred in the kidnapping of teen girls and the sordid corrupt and brutal form their education has taken. It is perfectly human to demand the right to an education and to preserve the institutions that offer global citizenship through learning. The cover on the face of things and the uncovering of the network of people responsible for this atrocity is a worthy goal. The highest edification in an educational institution comes from the PhD. *Respect* The fact that this exists and is attainable, if we choose, along with all the other graduated steps starting from around age 6 on is a basic right. The freedom, for all people is partly this. Here is a P.H._D (perfectly human demand ). I was able to attain an education irregardless of my gender and I wish this for all. This issue is completely and utterly of our times and once again the International community has begun the fight. Thank your for examining the Glitches along with me.

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