Skip to main content

Miriam Kitchen

I got up very early in the morning to volunteer at the kitchen. I did the drink table serving them orange juice from the tank and canned apple juice. I worked along side with a nice fellow, Tom, from Glover Park. Witnessing all the people that asked for juice, I could just keep on doing my job without any emotional exchanges. They were people from all kind of backgrounds. I did see one asian man, and no asian women... I didn't recall seeing hispanic women, either. There were some clean cut white guys who look 100% normal and healthy to me. I wondered what their stories are. Most of latino men were very polite. Some black men were aggressive and a bit sneaky, and some other were very polite, too.

I went to the men's room just before taking out. The men's room is turning into a public bath house. It is built by the stainless steel oozed with human waste and filled with odor.

I could only imagine how the life is to be homeless or mentally ill. Driving back home to take a shower, I stared at the blue sky and breathed in the fresh air. I couldn't be more thankful to my parents for what they did to bring me up.

I am really a lucky person to be alive and healthy in this world. I won't take it for granted. I shall live every minute mindfully and kindly.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rumi's poems quoted in Wikipedia

* All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. * Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, idolator, worshipper of fire, come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. o Variant: Come, come again, whoever you are, come! Heathen, fire worshipper or idolatrous, come! Come even if you broke your penitence a hundred times, Ours is the portal of hope, come as you are. * Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. * Every tree and plant in the meadow seemed to be dancing, those which average eyes would see as fixed and still. * Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. * Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon h...
Post a Comment
Read more

Miyamoto Musashi's painting

One of the monochrome paintings he produced later in life "The Shrike" expresses his ultimate teaching of swordsmanship, namely, "the myriad principles are all of the Void." The insect that can be seen roughly in the middle of the painting, crawling up the branch of the withered tree, provides us with a hint of the meaning of swordsmanship hidden within the work. Ono interprets the painting as such: The Shrike is waiting for the fish in the pond. She could shake the dead branch to make the insect fall into the water which will entice fish to come out and eat the bug. Before then, the insect has eaten up all the leaves of the tree which was transformed into a dead tree. The shrike could catch the fish, and strike her catch to the other pointed branch to kill it. Thus: Fish kills worm; worm kills tree; shrike kills fish...; The unseen kills shrike; new trees grow around the dead tree; Shrike, fish, worm, dead trees all turn into fertilizer to grow the new tree. Such i...
3 comments
Read more

Banana Bread

Last night it was a good cause for celebration as I made my first banana bread in my life. It is so delicious... Above all, it is so easy to make. Here is a recipe that I found online. I put it here and will try this one instead of the one from my cooking bible. Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup brown sugar 2 eggs, beaten 2 1/3 cups mashed overripe bananas (about two of them) 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts preferred) Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) Lightly grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs, mashed bananas, and nuts into creamed butter until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake in preheated oven for 55 to 60 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of the loaf comes out clean. Let bre...
Post a Comment
Read more