Feelin the Love: Do you give as much as you get?

Maybe it’s the time of year what with the holidays, or maybe it’s the end of the year and things are catching me up. In the end it doesn’t matter what the excuse is: we all need to slow down and take stock on what’s real and important. For me this means my relationships with friends, family, and myself and how I keep them in balance.

Throughout our day, month, year, and life we go through a number of exchanges. These may involve money and/or other people. A lot of the time they involve neither. Taking time to appreciate non monetary exchanges is something easily overlooked in a busy day. Even more difficult can be the ability to look at the exchanges we have internally with ourselves.

What do you think? Do you practice giving and getting equally? Are you feeling the love?

Edited: November 11th, 2009

Banana bread with all types of goodies like pecans, chocolate, and apricots #vegan

Deciding to bake stuff at the last moment seems to be my knack lately. Today was no different when I remembered I had been letting 3 bananas get extra ripe for banana bread. So naturally in my ADD existence it meant that at that time I had to make the Bread. Too bad I only has 40 minutes to make something that requires 50 minutes of baking… D’oh!

Anyway I figured the details would just work themselves out, and as usual they did. This time i just turned the oven off with 20 minutes left and when I got home a few hours later they were all tasty and yummy.

I changed up the recipe from the book a bit too cause I didnt have corn oil, went with olive. I also has dried apricots that I been meaning to use so I chopped em up and tossed em in.

Oh yeah and its all Vegan and stuff, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, or better yet just eat it cause its better that way.

Recipe:

• 2.5 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 3 ripe bananas
• 0.5 cups soy milk
• 0.25 cups oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 0.75 cups sugar
• 0.25 cups nuts
• 0.25 cups bittersweet choc chips
• 0.5 cups dried apricots

Mix well and bake at 375 for 50 minutes.

Edited: August 15th, 2009

For Kathryn Stewart:

Love is a funny thing, it has neither legal document, nor physical bond, but its weight is heavier than all Laws and the largest chain. In then end it should lift you up and make you smile:
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare
(1564 – 1616)”

Edited: July 23rd, 2009