PINE-ing
One-Word Wednesday 4/23/25
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Monday Moaning or Monday Marveling? 4/21/25
I’m Marveling this Monday Morn at last night’s Marvelous Easter Supper.
Chef Robert made a scrumptious dinner of beautiful lamb steaks, chopped asparagus, gnocchi (potato dumplings) and a savory herb gremolata sauce.
I had not heard of gremolata before, but Google came to the rescue. “Gremolata is an herb condiment classically made from parsley, lemon zest and finely chopped garlic.”
Beyond Delicious!
TIB (Truth in Blogging): Shockingly, HR did not make this MARVEL-ous meal from scratch.
Do you know about these meal kits from The Fresh Market? We have tried half a dozen of them so far and loved them all.
We have also gotten to know the delightful butcher Elise at our Savannah Fresh Market. She puts the meal kits together. When Robert showed her the kit he chose for our Easter Supper, Elise took the kit from his hands and replaced it with larger lamb steaks. (Get to know your butcher!)
Shhh … Silent Sunday. 4/20/25
Five Friday Happy Bringers 4/18/25
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. Brilliant red blooms of the Fire Lily in a yard near us.
2. Enjoying a delicious and educational olive oil tasting at Woodpecker Trail Olive Farm near Glenville GA.
3. Making a very yummy Strawberry Pear Pie with fresh-picked strawberries from Sonrise Farms near Dublin GA.
4. Our skin, which wraps us up so lovingly.
5. This beautifully quirky little pillow on the couch in the waiting area at my therapist’s office.
(I wonder if it was strategically placed there to somehow assess or affect our mental health.)
May you have a Healthy Weekend ahead – mentally and otherwise!
One-Word Wednesday 4/16/25
“PEACE”
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if PEACE could somehow start to bloom in our troubled world?
Shhh … Silent Sunday. 4/13/25
My Saturday Evening Post: 4/12/25 “Night Light Life”
Robert and I were walking through Telfair Square here in Savannah last night after dinner. The statue-laden Telfair Academy (the first public art museum in the South, 1888) shone incandescently, perhaps a bit eerily, exuding both pride and remorse in our city’s problematic past.
I paused and gazed up into the heavy, meandering limbs of the ancient Live Oak trees, limbs laden with both desiccated (for now) resurrection fern and new, brilliant green spring leaves.
Death and life together.
The street light could not illuminate all their crevices.
“Some of these trees have to be older than the academy itself,” I thought, as we walked out of the past. “If only trees could talk!”
A light breeze kneaded the old and the new together, causing an audible whispering in the leaves.
And that’s my Saturday Evening Post.
Five Friday Happy Bringers 4/11/25
My weekly gratitude journal, of sorts.
1. The joy of very simple food.
2. The joy of … fancier food.
3. The incredible sense of taste! What a blessing.
4. Colorful trash cans on a visit to Greene Acres Farm in Cochran GA.
5. The color of not-quite-ripe strawberries.
May you have a ripe weekend ahead.
Taizé Four 4/9/25 “Let All Who Are Thirsty”
Tonight was our church’s (Asbury Memorial, Savannah) fourth and final Taize service before the beginning of this Sunday’s Passover and Holy Week.
“Taizé is a meditative prayer service that incorporates simple repetitive song and chant, scripture readings, and periods of group silence in a setting of peace and soft light that fosters communion with God.” St. Mary’s of the Hill
After Pope John Paul Il visited the ecumenical, monastic Taizé community in France in 1986, he said:“One passes through Taize as one passes close to a spring of water. The traveler stops, quenches his thirst, and continues on his way. The brothers of the community do not want to keep you. They want, in prayer and silence, to enable you to drink the living water promised by Christ, to know his joy, to discern his presence, to respond to his call, then to set out again to witness to his love and to serve your brothers and sisters in your parishes, your schools, your universities, and in all your places of work.”
So come into this place of peace & let its silence heal your spirit; Come into this place of memory & let its history warm your soul; Come into this place of prophecy & power & let its vision change your heart. (From the service bulletin.)
Tonight‘s chant:
Let all who are thirsty come. Let all who wish receive the water of life freely. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
REMEMBERING OUR BAPTISM. You are invited to “Remember your baptism” by coming to the altar and receiving a stone from the flowing water of life. We encourage you to keep the stone with you throughout the seasons of Lent, Easter, and Eastertide. (From the service bulletin.)
May a Bit of Evening Peace be yours tonight.
NealEnJoy 