Wednesday, June 28, 2017

THE BEAUTY OF CAKE BREAD

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Including bread in your diet, even better than plain bread, to indulge in cake bread!

To have your cake and to eat it too. A bread that is a sweet bread, a bread with living yeast inside, a life of sweetness within this living yeast.

To add raisins, nuts, and fruits. To eat a holy bread Jews call lechem "challah" as we sing a motzi prayer to bless our bread, to be so fortunate to have a Rabbi to bless your bread.

To eat bread loaded with energy-increasing ingredients, vitamin B's. Chewing it up slowly as you ignite your salivary glands to secrete hormones that create easy digesting, easy on the liver and kidneys.

Got bread? Do you mean cash? Dinero? No, I mean real live bread that is rolled or braided and is beautiful. Now my tummy is full. It took just one piece of bread that was better than cake.

Bread that is spotted with fresh blueberries or banana nut bread that flakes off so lightly as it is easy as pie to chew.

B' read, to have the sustenance to be able to read better after you digest bread. A mouthful of joy, a piece of bread that tastes as good as a cake and is as delicious as a pie.

Yellow breads. So good you cannot believe it is just a "bread." 
 

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

YELLOW BECOMING THE COLOR GOLD

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What is the color yellow? Why is it different than all other colors? What makes it shine and illuminate and why is it beautiful?

The color yellow like the color gold shimmers and hypnotizes, grabs you into its delightfulness like a quicksand pool or tar pit into and above\under the top of the world, if your underworld is yellow and the tops above your head is yellow, you truly have descended the darkness and the fright that comes with the night.

The color yellow is the color of a wedding ring as it is a golden yellow band of love around your finger. Golden wireframe eyeglasses that catch the light as a prism and reflect off a rainbow of all the colors in your vision as the yellow becomes primary and takes ahold of our moods.

What is a yellow mood? A chameleon changes colors and a mood ring changes colors. The waters of the oceans change colors from turquoise to royal blue to green to a yellow reflection of the sun's light upon its waves. 

Love the color yellow, buy yellow clothes, a summer color, a color that changes your moods from bad to good.

Yellow nuggets of gold found in the California Gold Rush, straining gold that is money. Yellow stones becoming green cash, yellow sparks from your eyes like the eyes of a tiger as they are enflamed like fire with passion and desire to see more and more yellow.

An addiction to yellow, a harmless addiction, a color that is joyous and causes joyousness.    

Monday, June 26, 2017

THE MIRACLE OF A SISTER

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How blessed can we be to be alive in a family and have a sister or sisters, younger or older, to be there when you need them.

To have a sister who has children, who gave you nieces and nephews, who stays connected on social networking sites, a sister with DNA so close to yours it is like having a twin.

A sister who wants to care for you and even takes employment in a field where she learns what you need and how to be there in case you want and need her to be there for you.

A sister who helps to care for your elderly parent(s) and for others in your family so your load is shared and lightened, distributed, so it all gets done.

A sister who is wise as you are wise, sharing the same childhood and the similar adulthoods.

To be so blessed to have a sister who is a teacher by occupation, someone who wants you to know as much as she can teach you, she wishes you too could have the Ko-ach (Strength and Wisdom) to be a better person. And you too wish she could know everything possible to increase the quality of her life and her children's.

Lucky and blessed to be a sister and to have a sister, it goes both ways in an equal distribution and when we benefit from each other we therefore can have the abilities to help others (e.g. friends, coworkers, family, neighbors). 

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

FLYING SINGING BIRDS WHO ARE ANGELS

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Listening for sounds of birds singing first thing in the morning, stimulating your thinking processes as they are angels with messages straight from The Lord, who whisper gently into our ears as we feed them sunflower seeds from our birdfeeders and house them in birdhouses. A birdbath out in your front or backyard, birds as clean angels, sprinkling in the air and on the grass pure water that falls from the skies, rainwater in barrels.

It is the sounds of these birds that ignite the fire of an early morning, the dove flies higher than all of them, the turtledove who came back to Noah carrying the sprig of leaves off a tree, returning to the Ark to tell Noah the world has been saved. The Raven also flew but never returned.

Listening to the caw sounds of these birds, then tuning into Classical Music on your radio, hearing the lovely sounds of music that is symphony, opera, Beethoven, Mozart, Klezmer music, dancing music.

To be the wonderful gymnast in love with Russian Ukrainian dance music and to fly high with a jump into the air, clicking your heels together, like on a trampoline, jumping on mattresses of beds when you were kids playing games with your brothers and sisters.

Still in a family with brothers and sisters, as we all awake each morning to the music of our parents as they love the music of the birds.

With an angel, angels, in a holy place, outside or inside.

G-D as your daily and nightly Companion, listening as "shema" to hear The Lord as He sings. 

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

SINGING SONGS OF JOYOUSNESS

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The ability of singing, to sweetly sing, to be an opera star? To be a soloist? To sing Hebrew language in a Temple, with others or by yourself. to connect with song to another who has the same song.

Letting your voice increase in volume as your blood pressure increases, taking louder deeper breaths, to exhale as you inhale, a song that is a breathing meditation.

To sing the praises to YAH with all your might, to sing a speech, to be pleasing to the ear, to use your voice box as your own musical instrument, to change the keys and tonality as your heart feels the strength and delight of the beauty of the words you are singing.

Loving someone who is singing with you and combining your desires with theirs in the same words of the same song. Uniting in song with someone you admire, to keep up a steady beat, to march with your mouth. 

A song without words, a song inside your body as you breathe and tap your foot, moving your leg to the increasingly louder beat that is the beat we all feel as we all sing together.

What is your musical instrument? The stereo? Feeling song on a radio, feeling its beauty as others do as well. Clapping your hands together like cymbals, to whistle like a flute.

All joining in together as a band, a concert, a sound with color, all the colors of a rainbow from your vocal chords.

Singing The Blues, that become The Yellows!  

Tuesday, June 13, 2017

WANT TO GO BACK IN TIME?

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Good morning! No mourning this morning. Not as of yet, but put your exer-bike in reverse and go backwards a few years, a few months, a few days, how about 5,000 years ago?

Imagining the Earth covered with water, fish and dinosaurs. Is there someone who was in your life who you miss and would like to see and talk to again? Imagine him/her with you and feel the security of their companionship as you imagine their face and body, hear again something they say that they had said to you. See him/her smiling at you and feel protected.

Are you fatherless or motherless or both? Go back in your imagination to the wedding of your parents even if you were not born yet. Imagine their love for each other on their wedding day! Dressed in pure white with golden wedding rings on their fingers.

Now you are a child again. A warm bottle of milk? A cradle to sleep in and to play with toys? How many years can you go back in your memory? To the days when your grandma taught you how to walk? Before toddler age?

Yes, we once were toddlers, all of us, and yes, there once were dinosaurs all around the world.

So, now you are in a different place, you know your history and how you got where you are now.

Today can be the same as yesterday or it can be different, another day to love G-D, it is all in your control, up to you, a day of goodness and day of graciousness, a day of mercy and thankfulness to the ONE G-D Who brought you Earth, a history, a present day, and yes, you can count on a Future.  

Sunday, June 11, 2017

BEING THE PILOT OF YOUR OWN ENGINE

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Do you want a life to be a movie or a drama, a life that sparks the fireworks in your brain, to be floating on a yacht but not on water, to be jumping off a mountain but that is just a small hill, to not be afraid of success, to have success simply because you try new things?

Is there music that echoes like lovely angels that are singing to you, what is an angel? When the music stops are you still able to be in tune? As the conductor of your own train or the pilot of your own airplane, can you land your plane safely?

Can you see a 3D movie when you close your eyes? Can you tip toe through the tulips when there is no garden? Can you imagine a field being a meadow filled with flowers, can you  imagine the gorgeous scents in such a meadow.

Can you eat a small amount of food yet be fed as much as you are able. To know when to eat and when you are sated. To still have the delicious taste in your mouth of your last meal, to again and again taste the foods you just ate, not to be hungry, leading Pavlov's dog, the dog who salivated at the sound of a bell, to always be a dog who has reached his limit, a dog that does not need to be fed, a dog who lacks nothing, a dog who follows the advice of Psalm 23.

To imagine a full meal with all the trimmings, a Thanksgiving meal, a time to eat and a time to laugh! To salivate to the same tune, the same G-D's blessings, the same tastiness, the same as you were and forever will be.

Thinking safe thoughts, overcoming blindness, yes, with eyes gently closed for a minute, swallowing Kosher foods, being satisfied, not looking for more, not yearning, having a permanent friend in The Lord.

Go get a friend! Where? You yourself, are the friend you are looking for! Feel G-D inside of yourself, as yourself, and you will never "be in need" again. Amein.