Garrison Keillor

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"A Shakespearean tale is unwinding and it does not appear to me to be a comedy."

Garrison Keillor

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one. M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet. M. F. K. Fisher.

Happy Birthday MFK Fisher

“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of the nonchalant extravagance of the Twenties. They will feel, until their final days on earth, a kind of culinary caution: butter, no matter how unlimited, is a precious substance not lightly to be wasted; meats, too, and eggs, and all the far-brought spices of the world, take on a new significance, having once been so rare. And that is good, for there can be no more shameful carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.”
― M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war's fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment. M. F. K. Fisher

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. M. F. K. Fisher

There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment. M. F. K. Fisher

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavor. We are as a nation taste-blind. M. F. K. Fisher

It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises. M. F. K. Fisher

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. Thomas Jefferson

Thurgood Marshall

It's the birthday of the first African-American to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, born in Baltimore, Maryland (1908).

Marshall became the legal director of the NAACP, and of the 32 cases he argued for that organization, he won 29. His biggest case was the landmark Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. He went on to serve as an appeals court judge under Kennedy, and Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1967.

Thurgood Marshall said: "None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody — a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony, or a few nuns — bent down and helped us pick up our boots." The Writer's Almanac

A Hope so Tiny You Could Miss It

by Lindsey Heatherly  

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Dream

I dreamed I was eating my black Croc flip flops. They tasted like licorice. I wondered if I should wash them first after having walked around NYC in them.

I dreamed I gave sharp cheddar cheese and my homemade bread to Obama so he could make a sandwich and I gave him a big beautiful Gala apple. He made a lunch to take with him.

Carl Finch The Machine’s Pump Volume 27 – #6 – June 2024

"[T]here are new frontiers to explore, when it comes to messing with people’s perceptions. I am always listening to weird unconventional, non-mainstream music and it’s fun for me to figure out ways to share the excitement of my discovery with others. That’s all I’ve ever done, really."   Carl Finch The Machine’s Pump Volume 27 – #6 – June 2024

Hail

A storm blew through from the north this afternoon and it was hailing.

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That's the bee's knees!

What does the saying "bees knees" mean?

'That's the bee's knees' which means it is excellent, the highest quality.

The phrase 'the bee's knees' came from the 18th century and it was a fanciful phrase that referred to something that didn't exist. A boss would send an apprentice to the store to pick up a left-handed hammer and a bag of bee's knees.