November 2013

Red Quinoa-Brown Rice-Lentil Stuffed Squash (Gluten-Free)

November 25, 2013

Once upon a time, there was an unassuming whole food vegan (gluten-free) one-pot meal on my stove nearly every week. Like my Bright Yellow Spit Pea and Rice Pilaf, it had just 5 ingredients (6 if you count the cooking water). When it comes off the flame, it looks like this: After a half hour […]

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A Fortunate Fall

November 22, 2013

  This little watercolor of Saturn I did years ago while using up extra paint reminds me all things that spin must eventually come to a halt. I got a sudden unceremonious object lesson in this phenomenon a few days ago. I was “spinning’ with holiday cake-baking and blog-posting, card-proofing, cat-drawing, phone calls and other […]

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Gluten Free Sweet Potato Spice Cake with Apricot Carob Filling

November 19, 2013

The Buddhists and Hindus teach that earthly existence is a continual wheel of circular motion, fueled by desires that entrap us within that motion, like a potter’s wheel or a water  mill–or, to be more modern, a clothes dryer or the food processor. And as the famous actress Betty Davis once said “Life–it’s not for sissies.” […]

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Slow Miracle Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup

November 15, 2013

I’m posting another recipe a little bit sooner than I usually do, because thanks to Lee over at Veggie Quest, I’ve been educated to the fact this is National Split Pea Soup Week. Lee has a gorgeous and delicious looking recipe for Vegetarian Curried Split Pea Soup over on her blog, which I suggest you […]

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Slow Miracle Store Page?

November 13, 2013

Another of my favorite poems from childhood is called “General Store” by Rachel Field. It starts out like this: Some day I’m going to have a store With a tinkly bell hung over the door, With real glass cases and counter wide And drawers all spilly with things inside. Over 50 years later, the beginning […]

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

November 12, 2013

November is not the time of year to see the spectacular rainbows that sometimes arc themselves in the immense skyscape above the softly rolling hills of the Palouse, fireworks in breathtaking slow motion. But the other day something happened that brought the majesty of those moments back, and sent me looking for photos. I suddenly […]

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Bright Yellow Split Pea and Rice Pilaf

November 7, 2013

The Huffington Post recently posted this article about scientists who calculated there are 8.8 billion earth-like planets in our galaxy–that’s more planets than there are people on earth. About 1 in 5 of the stars in our galaxy are stars like our sun, and it’s the planets around these stars that were calculated. And that’s just […]

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The Slow Miracle of My Yoga Practice: Here Comes The Sun (Salutation)

November 1, 2013

Last January I began doing Sun Salutation first thing in the morning. Before I committed to this practice, it had been so long since I’d done any that I could barely remember the sequence of even one round. But I found a lovely video on youtube by a woman named Barbara with a German accent […]

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