The bitter taste of lemon juice in warm water or unsweetened diluted cranberry juice helps me feel that I'm doing something of great benefit. It's potency reminds me that I'm making a choice contrary to pleasure for the sake of future reward. It tells me with each hostile sip that I am cleaner or at … Continue reading Benefits of Bitterness
Author: Kim Blenkhorn
Giving Reflections on Thanks
Before everyone arrives with hot casseroles and forced conversations, it’s quiet. It’s dark and soundless, except for the occasional jingle of the dog’s collar. The coal stove glows orange inside, reminding me of ET’s heart.
Shabbat Mevarchim
Today is Shabbat Mevarchim- “the Shabbat when we bless.” On the Sabbath before the start of a Jewish month/new moon, a blessing is recited to usher it in. Why, i mean why bother blessing the new month, before the new moon? Don't we bless and pray every Shabbat? Picture this: every day you wash the … Continue reading Shabbat Mevarchim
Parallel Play
A letter to my grandmother
the Benefits of Chewing
Chewing food properly I guess is important. I didn't know! I was in a desperate state of bloat at the book store – hiding out in the diet and nutrition section, hoping I might meet a fairy god mother, who would wave her special wand, like with Cinderella and poof-flat belly. No luck, but I … Continue reading the Benefits of Chewing
The Distance Between Us
My sister lives on a lake in Maine.
I’m watching Genesis Part 1 on @YouVersion.
God creates a good world and appoints humans to rule it on his behalf. Humanity rebels, and the story traces the tragic consequences of human sin for individuals, families and societies, and creation itself. Source: I'm watching Genesis Part 1 on @YouVersion.
food’s influence
Food connects me to people. I don’t mean only that I feel connected when I am eating with others, what I mean is that when I make lasagna I think of my Dad, and when I make bread I think of my sister. When I am sinking my teeth into Thai food my friend Naomi … Continue reading food’s influence
the unrighteous steward
I fear that God will tell me that I can burn all my journals, he won’t be needing them, years and years of beautiful words, lost forever. I fear he has no use for the hours I have spent writing, and studying and thinking, that it was all to ‘grow’ me, but now, like training … Continue reading the unrighteous steward
My Faith Place 