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Hello Friends,
Not sure I want to heat up the kitchen, we currently are at 90 degrees as I write this on the last day of August. I am ready for a cold north wind and the comfort foods that autumn brings.
Nachos I open the door to the oven - warmed kitchen and smell my childhood ... a happy homemade happy life! Wishing you a beautiful September. Can you believe I just wrote September? 
Taco Soup
The garden is full of late summer color.
Peppers and tomato are ripening.
And now for the Hodgepodge.
Joyce asks the questions.
We answer the questions.
1. How do you feel about the transition from lazy summer days to a busier fall routine?
It is the opposite for me. My summer is far from lazy because of my work in the garden and my flowers. Once the evenings start to creep in earlier and the north wind starts to bring cold autumn air my cozy time will start.
2. Your favorite cookie?
Chocolate chip!!
3. What's something you've learned from a culture different than your own?
2006 I went on a missions trip to Ukraine. I learned many things while I was there. I worked at an orphanage. One of the things that stood out to me was the pride, the pride these street kids had for Ukraine. We had a big party on our last evening at the orphanage. We did face painting. They all wanted the Ukraine flag painted on them. I ran out of blue and yellow face paint.
What I learned from a culture different than my own, pride for Ukraine starts at a very young age and runs deep.
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4. Food critic, film critic, book critic, art critic...which hat would you most like to wear? Tell us why.
Food critic ... I love to try new recipes.
Recipes using new to me herbs, spices and more.
YUM!
5. What's a small, random thing from your childhood that you still remember clearly?
Our grandpa and grandma had a candy jar right by the door. We could take as much candy as we wanted.
6. Insert your own random thought here.
She was found on the street. She was full of lice, dirty and hungry.
We poured out as much love as we could in the time we worked at the orphanage the summer of 2006.
Every now and then I wonder how these children are doing today.
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Several of my blog buddies and friends are going through some difficult times right now. I had my own hiccup a few weeks ago and my friend L sent me the following poem for inspiration.
I am sharing it with you all today.
♥
"It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way. The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back. To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that's where the river will know it's not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean."
"Fear"
by Kahil Gibran
