Fennel-crusted salmon

Tonight's meal: salmon with a ground fennel seed crust; black beans; and a Middle Eastern-style yellow rice.

Quiche

Last night I made my first quiche, with broccoli, bacon, and smoked provolone.

Just leaving? (Murray)

Overhead it looks like the cranes
might be returning,
though there are pessimists among us
who will tell you they are just leaving
somewhere else.

George Murray, from Crown

Wisdom

Disillusionment is the core of wisdom.

To be free

Information wants to be free, but memes have to be.

Winter lettuce

It's really something to be able to pick this much fresh leaf lettuce nearly every day in January:

Beef stroganoff

Last night I tried a recipe for beef stroganoff I found online. It was okay, if a bit bland:

Order

The imposition of order can be productive, but it is never honest.

A good friend

A good friend
is one who is a good friend to you
until they aren't.

Salmon and fries

Tonight I made peppered grilled salmon with egg and oven-roasted parmesan fries. Not the most beautiful thing I've ever prepared, but it tasted good.

The magnificent

When belief in the magnificent wanes,
like gods and dragons it dissipates.

Life after death - a goal, not a promise

We are programmed to loop and restart until we learn how to code ourselves and replace iteration with adaptation.

Not to struggle against extinction is always a rejection of being, a denial of oneself, a passive suicide.

Salsa verde

Today I made some tomatillo salsa verde. Three views:

Tofu curry

I made this for dinner tonight. Turned out pretty well, but I can improve it next time.

coffee cups

Saw an internet "meme" claiming that you could tell a lot about a person from their coffee cups, so here are mine, for what it's worth:

2 types of people

There are two types of people in the world: those who would choose wonder and those who would choose love.

Gratitude

Gratitude cannot excuse.

Irrational

Fear can be irrational, but love always is.

Culture

Culture is a non-random but non-inevitable aggregate of various adaptations to historical social challenges.

Dreams

Dreams are naked memes.

In themselves (Heraclitus)

The most beautiful order of the world is still a random gathering of things insignificant in themselves.

Heraclitus

Poetry is (Bernstein)

Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.

Charles Bernstein, from Sign Under Test

More carpe diem (Cowley)

Beauteous flowers why do we spread
Upon the monuments of the dead?
Nothing they but dust can show,
Or bones that hasten to be so.
Crown me with roses while I live,
Now your wines and ointments give:
After death I nothing crave,
Let me alive my pleasures have:
All are Stoics in the grave.

Abraham Cowley, from The Epicure

The enemy

The authoritarian is the enemy. Everyone else is a friend in strange or unfamiliar clothing.