Sila Blume
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The Himmas Kassa Process
lemons in salt chickpeas cinnamon, coriander, black pepper, cumin, caraway garlic and ginger added some lemon juice parsley, mint, olive oil and the chickpeas added, and pounded to a paste…
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‘unconditional love’ is a curious term, proclaimed and conceptualized in counseling sessions by many
I simply wonder, can ‘it’ be called love if it is conditional?
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Celebration Day — twenty-two
On this day of celebration I began working last year. After the planning began, the first physical step was realized on December 31st, as I put four lemons in a salt bad. Here is to the hummus from ancient times.
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Celebration Day — twenty-one
The Genesis of my peripheral attention is unknown to me. The term has been a familiar one since my childhood but at some point, perhaps through a self inflicted period of auto investigation, after two decades trusting a higher power, I look deeper and wider, breathe deeper and wider, my taste penetrates clearer and wider.…
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Rose Petals
A rose is a rosePoetry LoveLuxuryPerfume MedicineMemoriesCelebration Symbol for rebirthWarTendernessBorn from the tears of Aphrodite, and the blood of AdonisThirty-five million years old and rose petals will be part of this himmas kassa, the hummus I am currently preparing References: 1800flowers / University of Illinois web extension
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Celebration Day — twenty
Celebration: intentional acknowledgment admitting a reason for festivity to honor out of joy or sadness to observe a moment, a deed, a person or people the praise of an existence
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Hummus — himmas kassa, part #2
There is a special physical and spiritual state which arises when an experience occurs through the palate, while the mind finds a romantic bind to the past. Call it joy. Looking to experiment, and build on that state, today I continue to the next step in the process of making a hummus, based on an…
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Celebration Day — nineteen
Joy. That is, perhaps, the true beginning of hedonism, as Aristippos intended it — a state which is truly there to elevate the spirit. Joy has deep roots, and long, bushy branches. Joy encompasses smiles and tears alike. On a given Wednesday, my daughter crossed the Atlantic to be with my father. He had tears…
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Celebration Day — eighteen
The most common day, the least anticipated moment, the most traveled path, the most reliable space, the very essence of a recurring motion, any security in being, all will likely become a new birth, if experienced with the intention to celebrate. A birthdate may otherwise be a mere compensation for the previous three hundred and…
