So. Robert and I have been members of our local library’s Fight Club, I mean SPICE CLUB! for a while now. Every couple of months, they present a new spice, with a little history about the spice and a few recipes to try.
We Love It!
The current spice is … Vadouvan. One of my very favorite! Okay, TIB (Truth in Blogging): I have never heard of it before.
“Simply put, Vadouvan is a French curry powder. Vadouvan combines many of the classic flavors of Indian cuisine in a typically French preparation. French chefs in southeastern India used a Tamil spice blend, known as vadavam or vadagam, as their primary influence when creating vadouvan. The flavor of vadouvan is best described as being mellow and sweet with smoky notes.” SpiceClub
And the vadouvan recipe I chose to try?
It took a while to prep, but oh my goodness, how delicious it was! I served it with yellow saffron rice. 
Even though I broke the silence on my Silent Sunday post, you REALLY needed to know about Vadouvan, didn’t you?
My very favorite subject in high school was GEOMETRY.
Unlike calculus, trigonometry, and even algebra, geometry just made plain sense to me.
I mean, everything seems to have a shape. Even if it’s shapeless, isn’t that still sort of a category of a shape?
I also like the way the word “geometry” sounds and even feels coming out of my mouth. Try saying it.
“gee-ah-muh-tree”
Now try saying it a little slower.
“geeee-ahhhh-muuuh-treee”
It’s like getting a teensy massage of the mouth and lips. (Stop staring at me like that. It is!)
And it has such a rhythmic flow.
So yes, I love geometry. The word and the subject.
And apparently, so does my iPhone’s camera. For as I was walking out our front door the other day, minding my own business, my phone looked down and somehow without my assistance snapped a quick photo of our hallway floor, etc.,etc., including my left shoe.
When I discovered the unintentional (at least by me) photo, I have to say that I was a bit charmed with my phone’s artistic expertise and perspective.
Just look at all the geometry!
Circles and squares and ovals. Rectangles and triangles. Lines and points.
If I squint, I think I can even make out a few symbols from sacred geometry.
So even though I have not discovered what the geometry of the universe really is, I do have a better “footing” for my hallway’s geometry.
“The Bay Bridge crosses the Chesapeake Bay along US 50/301. Its dual spans provide a direct connection between recreational and ocean regions on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the metropolitan areas of Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington, D.C. At four miles, the spans are among the world’s longest and most scenic over-water structures.” Bridges.com
A day after the horrific tragedy of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Baltimore Harbor, Robert and I had to travel across the nearby 4.5 mile Annapolis Bay Bridge to visit his grandmother on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. (Incredibly, HR’s still young enough to have a living grandmother!)
The weather was terrible. Dark, cold and very rainy as we crossed the bridge.
I was a nervous wreck. I tried not to, but all I could think about was what had happened yesterday.
Thankfully, we made it across. But we were most sadly aware that not everyone made it across the Key Bridge.
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