Thanks for taking me along for the ride Jim, that was excellent! Lunch menu for me includes a sausage from my last home-made batch (pork, beef and lamb) with whole wheat pasta and veggies. Since you are a devotee of the fleshy arts, have you ever made sausage? It is very easy once you try it a few times and the results are fantastic. I make up a batch and then bake them all. That way I can unfreeze a sausage to complete a quick meal like this. Even when I was a cook at sidhaland I used to make meatless spam and mock- meats out of gluten. It was a lifesaver for repressed omnivores. This is all from the Charcuterie Veda. As Homer Simpson likes to say when Lisa challenges him on his crazy Bible quotes: " It think it is somewhere in the back of the book!"
--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Our perception of what it means to have experiences of Self or God > > realization from yoga techniques my change as we begin to > understand > > all the states our brain can support. We may decide that these > states > > don't matter as much as ancient people thought they did. I am > > projecting a lot of my own perspective on what that guy wrote > here. I > > couldn't care less about what my own or anyone else's state of > > consciousness is, I just want to know what is for lunch. Have you > > read anything interesting lately? What skills have we acquired > that > > we can express in art or music? Do we treat people well? These > are > > all "relative' concerns, but in my experience, keeping track of how > > people respond to these questions have much more to do with who > they > > "are" than their inner experiences. > > > > Take our cyber relationship. I was interested in your subjective > > experiences when I first logged in here, but I only post to you now > > because I enjoy what you say about your appreciation of things in > the > > world. You seem to be enjoying life and that is something I can > > respect and appreciate, not what your sense of self is while > enjoying it. > > Yeah, I feel the same way. Despite the focus and determination that > I show here on this forum sometimes for increasing my knowledge of > spiritual techniques and understanding their more direct results, > its all only important to me if I integrate it completely, like > finding a nice thing to say to the checkout guy this morning when I > zipped over to Safeway a couple blocks away to grab some groceries, > and knowing that he is just as special, and has just as many > interesting ways to express himself as we do, here on FFL.(of course > I saw him for a total of 20 seconds...) > > Yesterday in the city, I had a nice conversation with the person > behind the counter in a cafe, the Javacat, that my daughter and I > went to yesterday after discovering that the french jewelry exhibit > at the Palace of the Legion of Honor was closed for President's Day. > Took some great pics of the place and surroundings. Before that, we > drove around the Sunset district, taking pictures of houses from the > 30's and 40's, Spanish Mission and Italian style mostly, lots of > stucco, with the ocean in the distance a couple miles away. > > Then down along the Pacific coast, sunny and warm (72? degrees) but > rough seas(!), where we tried to eat at the Cliff House, (the place > sits hanging over the ocean just outside the golden gate) but 45 > minute wait, and it seemed kind of stuffy since the remodel a few > years ago, so we started just driving down Geary Street, cutting > straight across the middle of the city, checking out places, until > we spotted this cafe, Javacat, that had good energy, in a Russian > and Chinese neighborhood, with a gold onion-domed Russian Orthodox > church up the block. > > I ended up zipping across three lanes of traffic, left to right, at > the light(!), to grab a parking space right in front of the cafe. I > know-- "asshole!" the other drivers screamed through their > windshields at me--. I had dolmas, humus, flat bread and salad, and > Claire had a bagel with salmon, lox, capers and cream cheese. I took > some good pics of the street too while there, then we just drove > down to the skyscraper area, hit the freeway, and home. > > > > > Dennis Miller once said about gay people that his own orgasm was > the > > most interesting thing to him in the world and your orgasm is the > most > > boring thing in the world to him. I feel the same way about > > consciousness except that I am bored with both of our states of > > consciousness. It didn't seem to make the changes in people that > > impress me so I figure it is just one of the many irrelevant > variables > > about people I interact with. So whats for lunch Jim? > > > nothing very inspiring I'm afraid, like a frozen cheeseburger, and > some fries. Or maybe just a yogurt, and some fresh lemonade from the > garden. ..nothing that's going to knock anyone's socks off...How > bout you? > > >
