>> You cook to make ghosts. Spirits that live on in every ingredient.
I’m not sure I feel like I am channeling the spirits of the beans, onions, bell peppers, and whole grains in the chili we made yesterday. (Not counting digestive gasses, of course.) Chicken, maybe, but ground chicken from the store? Lots of chicken pieces do not a ghost flock make, IMHO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if even though the film was food centric, there is a broader message. Of many children, Hassan was the only one to have a relationship with food like his mother. The others cooked and chopped, too...and perhaps their "thing" was something different? Music...like Gary mentioned...or painting, or building, or teaching?
Not so long ago I shared the clip from Ratatouille--the rat who put feelings into his chefery.
What if...and this is a stretch...she was saying we have to kill off all the things we're not to find the thing we are? Too philosophical?
Those muses! Seems they live in the moment, chaotic though it may be. It’s plain as day this was snapped last summer as you crossed a local trickle.
The “cooking to kill” idea is a brain teaser for me. I first wondered, “E pluribus unum.” (I chuckle. Auto correct turned “unum” into “unimpressive.” Perhaps a not so subtle hint?) It seemed the strong, active verb “kill” was referring to something deeper than the words on a symbol on the back of a dollar bill.
Next, the image of a chef cutting stalks of rhubarb to make a pie came from out of nowhere (I refer to my brain that way sometimes). Certainly more active; definitely “killing” the rhubarb stalks. Pretty sure something more metaphorical was intended in the phrase from the movie.
Following Calliope’s lead, while food doesn’t call to mind memories, music does. Powerfully.
Have Thalia call my people this afternoon and share any trends that have emerged from the readers of today’s Born Free Newsletter... 🤔
>> You cook to make ghosts. Spirits that live on in every ingredient.
I’m not sure I feel like I am channeling the spirits of the beans, onions, bell peppers, and whole grains in the chili we made yesterday. (Not counting digestive gasses, of course.) Chicken, maybe, but ground chicken from the store? Lots of chicken pieces do not a ghost flock make, IMHO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if even though the film was food centric, there is a broader message. Of many children, Hassan was the only one to have a relationship with food like his mother. The others cooked and chopped, too...and perhaps their "thing" was something different? Music...like Gary mentioned...or painting, or building, or teaching?
Not so long ago I shared the clip from Ratatouille--the rat who put feelings into his chefery.
What if...and this is a stretch...she was saying we have to kill off all the things we're not to find the thing we are? Too philosophical?
Those muses! Seems they live in the moment, chaotic though it may be. It’s plain as day this was snapped last summer as you crossed a local trickle.
The “cooking to kill” idea is a brain teaser for me. I first wondered, “E pluribus unum.” (I chuckle. Auto correct turned “unum” into “unimpressive.” Perhaps a not so subtle hint?) It seemed the strong, active verb “kill” was referring to something deeper than the words on a symbol on the back of a dollar bill.
Next, the image of a chef cutting stalks of rhubarb to make a pie came from out of nowhere (I refer to my brain that way sometimes). Certainly more active; definitely “killing” the rhubarb stalks. Pretty sure something more metaphorical was intended in the phrase from the movie.
Following Calliope’s lead, while food doesn’t call to mind memories, music does. Powerfully.
Have Thalia call my people this afternoon and share any trends that have emerged from the readers of today’s Born Free Newsletter... 🤔
A trio of "now-ness" seems just about right. They can actually get me to laugh out loud.
South Dakota 2017...Oddly I cannot remember where we were walking...
Out of many, one...appropriate connection! That could be a title? (The muses are contemplating a book.) I was thinking Me+3...