Julie & Julia, need I say more? Yes, of course I will. That show screamed at my soul. The great song my grandma used to sing to me "I love you a bushel and a peck", and that I sing to my children, still, my great passion for cooking, the memories of the cookbooks with my dear old Aunt Bernadine in which many many dinner parties had these french dishes served. I often think of the food splatters stuck within pages of that dear old book. The memories, this show brought back to me, were overwhelming and so much needed. The contemporary world of the internet in which Julie Powell resurrected and brought to life a Julia Child in a different form than we all knew from PBS.
The sense of undiagnosed ADD and realness of Julie Powell was completely identifiable, in me, and the ups and down of the media, the reporters, the t.v., radio,the publications, blogs and the real catastrophe's within the deadlines that happen. It reminded me of the early days of Bundles of Blossoms, (my fourth child) and all the feelings and passion I had before our world was taken, so ferociously. I am here, right now, tonight, at this very minute to say thank you Julie Powell and Julia Child (God bless her) for bringing back the feelings and tinglings sensations in my heart and soul. Bon Appetite!
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The recession has been beautiful.
From the title of my blogs I expect many silent unidentified sighs from my readers, who don't comment and yet I know you are here. To my commenting readers please go easy on me because there is more to read and comment on after reading the title to todays blog.
Yes, this recession has beauty! Would I have said that a year and a half or go or even for that matter 6 months ago, hell no! The inflation of everything, the stress in our marriages, the loss of employment, the reduction of over time, no insurance or lack there of is insane, the entertainment and spur of the moments items for our children disappearing as if they were a, very long time ago, dream, the quick meals through the "golden arches" whenever we felt like it suddenly taken away, the lack of quality health care if any health care at all, the loss of our homes, our credit, our minds, and our credit scores gone, but not forever. I am sure I have missed many valid points, but you get the idea. It's pretty much been a pure hell on earth, trust me.
What I have discovered, is we all pay much more attention to what comes in and what goes out of our homes. We don't spoil ourselves unescessarily, out of boredom or anxiety and quick fixes. Many more home cooked meals, which means conversations and family. Lot's more entertainment involving staying within the home and lounging on the couch. The seeking of a higher power is prayed upon a little harder with more sincerity and belief. A sense of a survival that many of us didn't think that we had within us. Newly discovered talents within ourselves that have either turned into hobbies that calm our nerves which distracts us temporarily and hobbies which have turned into profit which derived from passion. We have been forced to talk to our spouses, signifigant others, or ourselves about the truths of our finances. Kids have been taught life lessons in money, budgets, economics and the stress of self made financial catastrophes to having unexpected catastrophies because of the loss of a parents income because of a job closing. They see it, they hear it and they feel it. Hopefully, they learn from it, which many will. What a great lesson for future generations although much was out of our control we are at fault, personally, as well.
I hope we all take our life lessons to heart, I hope we all grow as strong families around the kitchen table together, I hope we all take to heart that no matter how horrific this has been that it has been a college course we could never pay for and a class I hope to never take again. I have to say. I graduated at the top of my class with a Phd. in LIFE101. I am now moving my tassle to the other side and throwing my hat in the air and jumping high. Please, take my picture for posterity!
Yes, this recession has beauty! Would I have said that a year and a half or go or even for that matter 6 months ago, hell no! The inflation of everything, the stress in our marriages, the loss of employment, the reduction of over time, no insurance or lack there of is insane, the entertainment and spur of the moments items for our children disappearing as if they were a, very long time ago, dream, the quick meals through the "golden arches" whenever we felt like it suddenly taken away, the lack of quality health care if any health care at all, the loss of our homes, our credit, our minds, and our credit scores gone, but not forever. I am sure I have missed many valid points, but you get the idea. It's pretty much been a pure hell on earth, trust me.
What I have discovered, is we all pay much more attention to what comes in and what goes out of our homes. We don't spoil ourselves unescessarily, out of boredom or anxiety and quick fixes. Many more home cooked meals, which means conversations and family. Lot's more entertainment involving staying within the home and lounging on the couch. The seeking of a higher power is prayed upon a little harder with more sincerity and belief. A sense of a survival that many of us didn't think that we had within us. Newly discovered talents within ourselves that have either turned into hobbies that calm our nerves which distracts us temporarily and hobbies which have turned into profit which derived from passion. We have been forced to talk to our spouses, signifigant others, or ourselves about the truths of our finances. Kids have been taught life lessons in money, budgets, economics and the stress of self made financial catastrophes to having unexpected catastrophies because of the loss of a parents income because of a job closing. They see it, they hear it and they feel it. Hopefully, they learn from it, which many will. What a great lesson for future generations although much was out of our control we are at fault, personally, as well.
I hope we all take our life lessons to heart, I hope we all grow as strong families around the kitchen table together, I hope we all take to heart that no matter how horrific this has been that it has been a college course we could never pay for and a class I hope to never take again. I have to say. I graduated at the top of my class with a Phd. in LIFE101. I am now moving my tassle to the other side and throwing my hat in the air and jumping high. Please, take my picture for posterity!
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