Feel Good Guru

I don’t know this person. She is a friend of a friend of a friend, Anne Thomas, connected by the human family, shared via email, in Ode Magazine, and also by a member of the American Zen Teachers Association. But I wish I knew her. In the following message from Sendai, Japan to her friends and family back home, she describes how the people in her city are surviving by helping each other.

It’s both the content of the message and the tremendous grace, gratitude, acceptance, compassion and humility with which she describes the beauty she is seeing all around her that make this an astonishing read.

She writes “Somehow, as I experience the events happening now in Japan, I can feel my heart opening very wide…”  Thank you, Dawn of the Mountains for sharing this with me. I felt compelled to post it again here ~ The world needs this message ~ Would love to know your thoughts ~ (more…)

Rockin the hyper-local, super-awesome lunchtime neighborhood soup delivery service, too busy to post recipes, but peeps are asking, so here’s a quick down ‘n dirty version of today’s offering, maple-roasted root veggie. I filled a 37-litre pot, so just guestimating quantities for a normal family-sized soup pot.

A good soup is all about the ingredients. If you have good quality food, it speaks for itself and barely needs to be doctored in any way. We’re lucky to have Uncle Jorge supplying us with all our amazing local organic winter veggies. The beauty of this soup is it makes itself in the oven. Roasting the veggies creates a beautiful rich flavor, and the maple syrup caramelizes and brings out the sweetness of the root veggies. Y-ommm. (more…)