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Cinnamon

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I was gearing up for a big bake – and it was after all the stores closed early for Midsommar. I looked through my cupboards once, twice and even a third time because I was sure that I HAD TO have a giant, industrial-sized container of cinnamon in there. But there was absolutely no cinnamon in my cupboards – which is unheard of. Not even cinnamon sticks. This put a little kink (not the good kind!) in my baking plans, but I plowed ahead… only several hours later did I notice that there is a massive container of cinnamon sitting on my countertop – where I had looked already several times but just experienced temporary blindness, apparently.

Cinnamon Goliath towering over ginger David

Cinnamon Goliath towering over ginger David

Smoked Mozzarella, Experientialism, Psychic Nature and Magic

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Am I psychic or was it just coincidental? Did I manifest smoked mozzarella out of thin air? Two days ago I was thinking hard about the absence of smoked mozzarella – not really a favorite food or anything, but suddenly I felt I really wanted and needed smoked mozzarella but I knew I had never seen it here.

But then tonight I went to the store and had no intention of looking for smoked mozzarella – but there it was – on sale no less!

Who knew it would be so exciting to find?

On the way back from the store I was thinking about how it is so easy to get caught in the trap of thinking one is becoming happier and more fulfilled because they have more stuff. I have been alone and worked to buy more things – but I have not been any more fulfilled by having. I began to think about how experience can be so much more enriching – and then found an article on that very subject.

It really is all about the experience – “experientialism”, as the article puts it. Learning to breathe after the “stuffocation” modern society engenders.

And sometimes experience is magic.

Overdosing on Banshee on TV and enjoying the latest from Neneh Cherry and Robyn.