#Quote #AntonChekhov

accept them like you would anything in nature--cats will be cats

#Redpill #MKUltra #socialengineering

#quote #MarcusAurelius

I miss your haiku offerings. It was the only thing besides the daily inkblot that felt like soulful telepathic connection on this platform --for me.

“To live content with small means;

to seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion;

to be worthy, not respectable,

and wealthy, not, rich;

to listen to stars and birds,

babes and sages, with open heart;

to study hard;

to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently,

await occasions, hurry never;

in a word, to let the spiritual,

unbidden and unconscious,

grow up through the common

– this is my symphony”

William Ellery Channing #poetry #art

Artwork - John Singer Sargent

#quote #ThomasMerton

#funny

#GM #80s #funny

Credit: Natural Cottages (Facebook)

"Zucchini flour.

Might be old news to some, but you never know right. With rising concerns on wheat costs just thought I’d share it.

There’s probably fancier ways of doing this out there, but here’s how I learned. Easy peasy. Nothing to it.

We love and make tons of zucchini flour every year. You may have heard it called Amish flour or troops flour before. It’s a Staple in Amish and Mennonite household for generations here. It was also embraced in the 1940’s during rationing.

You let your zucchini grow, oversized is actually better. Large to extra large. Marrow sized. I peel mine with a carrot peeler, into thin even strips for less drying time. Or slide it through a mandolin for speed of prep.

Run it through the electronic dehydrator or just thread it. . No large seeds if possible for finer texture. Everything else is fine. It must be absolutely dry. It’s essential. If in doubt always dry it more, any moisture will ruin it during storage

Then run it through a food processor or hand grinder until you have a powdered consistency. It will be a marbled green looking power. Texture is similar to a good quality whole wheat flour. That is zucchini flour. Three large zucchini is about four or five cups for me finished.

It can be used to replace 1/3 of flour in most recipes without any change to the finished products, acts as a thickening agent for gravies, great for breading fish but we really tend use ours for tortillas and bannock since those are our quick go to breads. It also makes great dumplings and brownies.

Store in air tight jars , or we often vac pac ours

For us, we still purchase grains from a local family owned grist mill. So this is free, sustainable, easily produced on site and it has a mild

taste. Most people wouldn’t pickup on it. It cuts our flour usage by a third . You can do the same with sweet and regular potato, other squash acorns, and pumpkin. I just find myself zucchini is the least flavoured. Plus we get overloaded by the darn things." #Gardening #Homesteading #Food #ZucchiniFlour

"When people allow you to know about their pain and talk about it, take your shoes off. It’s a holy place. Be humble, be kind when someone shows you vulnerability." #compassion

- Amani Albair

art | Sol Eom

"This human herd all started out as potential geniuses, before the tacit conspiracy of social conformity blighted their brains. All of them can redeem that lost freedom if they work at it hard enough."

— Robert Anton Wilson #selfmastery

Prescription for the Disillusioned

Come new to this

day. Remove the rigid

overcoat of experience,

the notion of knowing,

the beliefs that cloud

your vision.

Leave behind the stories

of your life. Spit out the

sour taste of unmet expectation.

Let the stale scent of what-ifs

waft back into the swamp

of your useless fears.

Arrive curious, without the armor

of certainty, the plans and planned

results of the life you’ve imagined.

Live the life that chooses you, new

every breath, every blink of

your astonished eyes.

--David Whyte #poetry

#quote #AlexanderdenHeijer

credit goes to Alexander den Heijer

#funny

#BillGatesStockinCanadianRail #headsup

I do too!--If we know the lens someone is viewing a situation from --we can instantly be more understanding and avoid misunderstandings and conflict. And for myself --I hope to at least be conscious of the sense of self feeling into a moment

#selfobservation #filters

"The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories."

~Paulo Coelho

art | Elin Manon