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  • Joy from the Past

    When an experience occurs through the palate, a unique physical and spiritual state will arise. It will sensitize memories into references of the present, and transport one back to the past. Subsequently, some otherwise unreachable memories may leave oblivion. After all, what is the organic and biological sense of memory storage, if there are no…

    January 23, 2021

    Sila Blume

    COVID-19, Culture, Food History, Homemade, Joy, Life
    COVID-19, food, History, hummus, Joy, kitchen, Life, the poetic life
  • 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…

    January 22, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Culture, Food History, Foods, Gastronomy, Mortar and Pestle, Recipes, Spices
    celebration, Culture, hummus, kitchen, Mortar and Pestle, olive oil, paradise, Photography, Recipes, Spices, the poetic life
    The Himmas Kassa Process
  • ‘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?

    January 22, 2021

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    Animal Noble, Love
    animal, Homo sapiens, humans, Life, life coaching, Love, love therapy, unconditional love
  • 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.

    January 22, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Celebration Day, Culture, Foods, Gastronomy, Joy, Mortar and Pestle, Spices
    ancient recipes, celebration, Culture, food, garlic, himmas kassa, hummus, Irak, kitchen, Mortar and Pestle, Nutrition, olive oil, the poetic life
    Celebration Day — twenty-two
  • 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.…

    January 21, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Celebration Day, Foods
    celebration, cinnamon, food, Life
    Celebration Day — twenty-one
  • Wall

    January 21, 2021

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    Animals, Architecture, Art, Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York
    birds, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York, New York City, NYC, Photography, pigeons, wall
    Wall
  • Two Squirrels

    January 20, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Animals, Nature, New York City
    Animals, New York City, NYC, Photography, squirrels
    Two Squirrels
  • Ethiopian Coffee

    January 20, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Coffee, Photography
    chemex, Coffee, Ethiopian coffee, Jimma region, mixed heirloom, organic, Photography
    Ethiopian Coffee
  • 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

    January 20, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Foods, Gastronomy, Recipes, Spices
    aesthetic, himmas kassa, hummus, kitchen, rose petals, roses, Spices, the poetic life
    Rose Petals
  • 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

    January 20, 2021

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    Celebration Day, Personal Lexicon
  • 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…

    January 19, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Foods, Gastronomy, History
    chickpeas, food, hummus, kitchen, recipe, the poetic life
    Hummus — himmas kassa, part #2
  • Fountain Pen Dissection

    January 19, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Nature, Photography
    Dorns, Nature, Photography, winter
    Fountain Pen Dissection
  • Before and After

    January 19, 2021

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    Coffee, Photography
    aesthetic, brewing, chemex, Coffee, Indonesian coffee filter, Photography, pourover
    Before and After
  • 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…

    January 19, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Celebration Day, Joy
    Aristippos, Aristippus of Cyrene, celebration, Hedonism, Joy, Life, Memories
  • Bay Side

    January 19, 2021

    Sila Blume

    Architecture
    Architecture, Bayside, brick building, bricks, Long Island Railroad, New York City
    Bay Side
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