Singapore Noodle from the Woks of Life

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The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) is a traditional Mexican holiday celebrated primarily on November 1 and 2 to honor and welcome back the souls of deceased loved ones. Day of the Dead - November 1: Día de los Inocentes or All Saints' Day, dedicated to the spirits of children who have passed away. • November 2: Día de los Muertos or All Souls' Day, dedicated to the spirits of adults.  Origins and Significance  • Mesoamerican Roots: The holiday traces back roughly 3,000 years to ancient Indigenous cultures in Mesoamerica, including the Aztecs, Toltecs, and Maya, who viewed death as a natural continuation of life rather than the end. • Catholic Fusion: During the colonial era, these pre-Hispanic death rituals blended with Roman Catholic observances—specifically All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. • Joyful Remembrance: Rather than focusing strictly on mourning, the celebration embraces color, music, and storytelling to keep the memory of ancestors alive.

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Gabor Mate: The Life that Fits You

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IQXUH0Nz5g

What if the difficult season you're going through is preparing you for the best chapter of your life?  Sometimes, life becomes quiet before everything changes. You may feel disconnected from your old identity, uncertain about your future, or less interested in the things that once mattered to you. It can feel like you're standing between the person you used to be and the person you're becoming.  But what if this season is an opportunity to grow, rediscover yourself, and prepare for a new beginning?

Savory Potato Egg Pie

 https://www.thekitchn.com/passover-potato-pie-23719089

Linguini lost in the Pantry

Last night when I came home from the grocery store I was loading cans of plum tomatoes into my deep cupboard. I reached in to create space and I found an empty 1 pound cellophane package of linguini. It was way in the back. It had jagged mouse bites along the plastic. I grabbed a flashlight and saw many little mouse turds. I cleaned everything up. I am amazed.

7 Signs You're Outgrowing Everyone (They Won't Understand) DR GABOR Maté wisdom DR GABOR Maté

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvWC5PU4k2o

Rewriting Your Love Story: Breaking the Cycle of Unavailability | Dr. Gabor Maté Healing Words of Gabor Maté Healing Words of Gabor Maté

 Dr. Gabor Maté.  How to stop loving people who can't love you back

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ7q3-OLg0g

Apple Juice Concentrate as a sweetener....

JENNY brand Imported Dried Kalamata Greek Figs

 They are good.

Tourtière: A French-Canadian Meat Pie Recipe

 https://growagoodlife.com/tourtiere/

Most people who die in fires don't burn to death; they die from smoke inhalation that kills the respiratory system. that's why the fire service is going on and on about smoke detectors. These little ten-dollar gadgets are one of the truly wonderful inventions of man. The wake you up from a deep slumber so that you and your family and your dog or cat or whatever can get out of the house in time to live and call the fire department. If this sounds like a public service announcement, it is. If you don't have one, buy one today. They make great Christmas gifts. Plus they're cheap. Give a gift of love to a loved one you love. End of announcement.
― Larry Brown  

All we have to do as people is keep teaching children to read, and the rest will more than likely take care of itself.

― Larry Brown

 If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

― Larry Brown, Big Bad Love

Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
― Larry Brown

All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean W. Cash)
― Larry Brown

You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.”
― Larry Brown

There’s a Rhode Island woman trying get the Corkscrew Roller Coaster back to Rhode Island where it was originally part of the former Rocky Point Amusement Park

A Johnston Rhode Island woman named Chantelle Croft is trying get the Corkscrew aka 'Wild Thing' back to Rhode Island. 

Ask PAWTUCKET RI. They have the Loof Carousel another historic piece of Rocky Point. If they say no, ask Woonsocket ask Lincoln!

Emerson said, “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”

He was choosing to skip gatherings entirely and calling the decision a new family tradition.

It seems to me that if there is no spiritual undercarriage beneath the ideological, if the political does not rest upon what can only be called love, then our politics grow hard and narrow, turn in on themselves, become tribal, cannibalistic, and lacking in mercy. Look around and see. Nick Cave