Phenomenal Woman

This is a song from the chords of a powerful lady!
woof! soo good. yummmy.

Listen to Phenomenal Woman by Ruthie Foster on Rhapsody:

play.rhapsody.com/ruthiefos...menalwoman

The best Chicken soup ever!

**Warning** this post contains a scene that might freak you out***

Look at those chickens above. foghorn & elvira? well our household decided to get some new babies, and despite our efforts to give them to a foster home, we couldn't , and the cycle of life barrelled on and on and we killed them. It was moderately traumatic, but ultimately profound to skin a chicken, clean it, pull out the innards with my hand in a still warm body. and then put it in the freezer, and the stew pot.

foghorn was the survivor of at least 4 racoon attacks that took most of the chickens we have had over the years. She was a survivor. I loved the way she destroyed all the seed beds, and just wrecked the garden or wherever she decided to put her scratching energy. Elvira was a foster bird from someone who moved away. she was so pretty and kind of useless. she always followed foghorn's lead. upset when foghorn flew over the fence, and she couldn't figure out how to get out too. Over the last few months both girls were expanding their territory down the street. We'd come home in the afternoon, and they would be across the street, in the street, down the street. They always knew where home was, corralling them was easy.

Since saturday i look out the window in the morning, and for a split second forget that they are gone and wonder where they are. then i remember i ate them. Foghorn made the best chicken dumplings stock I have ever had.

thanks ladies. have fun at the seed bed in the sky. scratch up a worm for me!

tell me about your super powers

In one of my tribes we were discussing this-- I want to know my family better. tell me about your super powers!!
Here are mine -- feel free to expound on others you think folks have but don't know about yet! AFFIRMATIONS!

MY 3 powers:

1. power to recognize & see the person behind the masks we hold in front of ourselves. especially useful with the hairy.
2. the power to love (yes even (especially) you). warts, issues and all!
3. power to teach people to fly in the dream world. (arms outstretched, 3 twists to the right, liftoff!)

how to recover from the flu -- your remedies needed!

hey y'all i had the flu over christmas and finally my fever broke over the weekend, but now i'm having trouble just getting over it. i'm still feeling lousy.

i'm taking some ginger tea and doing steam inhalations with eucalyptus/methol type oils.

herbs to help remove the ever present mucus in my lungs and nozetrils? other ideas?

you are wonderbar!
charlita

all this water

last year the kitchen ceililng leaked from all the water.
this year
my basement is flooding.
that has never happened before. oh well.

i love water. i am in awe of h20. and how it can find a way in where nothing else can.
i love how it freezes, how it moves,
how it swells, and evaporates.

i've got chicken stock on the stove. soup tonight to warm my wet bones.

my soul don't need no stinking umbrella.

nature boy

There was a boy
a very strange enchanted boy
They say he travelled very far, very far
over land and sea.

A little shy
and sad of eye
but very wise was he.

And then one day
One magic day he came my way
And though we spoke of many things
fools and kings
this he said to me,

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn,
is just to love, and be loved in return."

--Nat King Cole

Casabianca -- Elizabeth Bishop

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Love's the boy stood on the burning deck
trying to recite "The boy stood on
the burning deck." Love's the son
stood stammering elocution
while the poor ship in flames went down.

Love's the obstinate boy, the ship,
even the swimming sailors, who
would like a schoolroom platform, too,
or an excuse to stay
on deck. And love's the burning boy.
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-this poem references the original by Felicia Hemans, a common poem children were made to memorize.

Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Oregon State becomes a state day.

Read the poem at least 3 times. then respond to the topic of love.

hugs, charlita

invisible

here's a question for you...i'll tell you if you tell me

what do you like about your life?


does anyone visit this thing anymore?? just to see if anyone sees me...wonders what i'm doing.....has any interest in my interests....or thinks i am boring....

Seahawks go to Superbowl!

I know folks will be surprised, but this year i am all about football! Growing up in a Seattle suburb, our family was always watching football. I admit to loving it when i was a teenager, and growing out of it in college -- to some extent -- and despising it in my activist years -- but now, all year long, i've been excited -- and now they are going to the superbowl -- it's very exciting! I feel nostalgic and proud -- Even the original quarterback that i grew up with is the quarterback coach! -- it feels like the cubs going to the world series ( and yes i love baseball too, but i'm somehow not as shy about that)!!

Plus, even though the seahawks have the MVP, and a star quarterback-- when they play and 3 receivers make touchdowns, the MVP makes 1, and the defense makes 2, you get the feeling they are a whole team, sharing the glory, working together in collaborative way that really shines through beyond the advertisements, the flash and even paul allen-- and of course that is what i love.

If people want to come over to Superbowl sunday at the Umatilla House --- give a call. We are surely celebrating!!