Colorful German Potato Salad with sauteed Red Onion and Red Bell Pepper

I couldn't resist a bargain so I bought a 5 pound bag of Yukon Gold potatoes for a couple of dollars and made my pressure cooked German potato salad using olive oil, red wine vinegar, mustard, adobo, honey, salt and no bacon. I also added a huge freshly-chopped red onion.

Then my five red bell peppers were asking to be chopped today and I complied. I also chopped two more huge red onions and sauteed them with the bell peppers in olive oil. Then I sprinkled balsamic vinegar over the mix. Later I decided to add it all to the cooked potato salad.

It's delicious! The Yukon Gold potatoes held up, mixed in with the sauteed red onion and bell peppers. 

Great Northern Bean Vegetable Soup

I had no idea I was going to make a soup but I cooked the beans and went from there. It was so good I am writing it down.

1 pound  dry Great Northern beans rinsed, soaked and cooked. 

3 large cans of plum tomatoes (you can cut them later but they are more flavorful than pre-chopped).

1 pound carrots (peeled if skin is bitter), chopped.

1 pound frozen spinach.

Serious bloop of jug Chianti (Carlo Rossi).

Olive oil 

Homemade cilantro pesto .

Adobo

salt 

Simmer it all in the soup pot! 

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

John le Carré 

The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.

― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

In chaos, there is fertility. 

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I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.

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Write. Write until it stops hurting.

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Passion gives me moments of wholeness. 

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You cannot save people you can only love them. 

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Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again. Anaïs Nin

Keep on writing, no matter what! That’s the most important thing. As long as you have a job on hand that absorbs all your mental energy, you haven’t much worry to spare over other things. It serves as a suit of armor. 

Eugene O'Neill

 Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. Jack Kerouac

what the world asks of you is courage

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

ROBERT McKEE

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. Alice Childress

We should look inward and think about the meaning of our life and its purposes, lest we do it in 20 or 30 years and it’s too late. Robert Coles

Hi Neighbor!

It was the bumper sticker that gave Eugenia away. The woman was swapping out license plates, wearing blonde wigs over her brown hair, hiding drugs in the engine compartment, but the tell was that darn bumper sticker. The detectives knew what to look for. They knew all about the tilted lady and her brother-in-law in prison and the decorative pillow found in the last raid, WE'RE NOT A DRUG HOUSE WE'RE A DRUG HOME. But this time it was the HI NEIGHBOR bumper sticker on the back of the silver Buick that did her in.

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When asked why he wanted to turn his life into a comic book, Harvey Pekar said, “I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.”

Tikkun olam (Hebrew: תִּיקּוּן עוֹלָם) translates literally to "repairing the world" or "healing the world". It is a central concept in Judaism that describes human responsibility for improving, fixing, and elevating society and the physical world.

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller