What's making your heart beat?

What's making your heart beat?
Anticipation? Hope? Someone? Changing of seasons? Excitement of celebrations? Snow? Friends? Santa? Surprises? Cookies? Holiday toasts? A memory? A dog treat?
    .ryn 

Tracks in the Snow

This song gets me in the mood for some snow... and hopefully we'll have lots of it this Christmas in Minnesota!  Looking forward to walking Hal in the snow, family sitting around in PJ's, Dad's Swedish Pancakes, cookie-baking & relaxing!  Counting the minutes...
    .ryn

Recipe Roundup: Pasta!

 "Hunger is the best sauce in the world." -Cervantes

This month's ingredient: Pasta! The combinations of pasta shapes & flavors, fresh herbs, veggies, cheeses and sauces are infinite!  Create an oozing mac & cheese, or toss whole wheat spaghetti with lemon juice and basil for a lighter taste.  It's the perfect time of year to experiment.  So, crack open the vino, put on some old scratchy tunes, and get cookin'! 

    Bon apetit!  .ryn

The tried and true: Lemon Pasta, a la Giada

How to make pesto like an Italian grandmother from 101 cookbooks

Market pasta from Sunday Suppers

How did the abandoned bicycle win its freedom?

Still enchanted by these poetic questions from Pablo Neruda's "Book of Questions."  Enjoy.
    .ryn

XIV.

And what did the rubies say

standing before the juice of pomegranates?

Why doesn't Thursday talk itself  

into coming after Friday?

 

Who shouted with glee

when the color blue was born?

Why does the earth grieve

when the violets appear?

 

XV.

But is it true that the vests

are preparing to revolt?

Why does spring once again

offer its green clothes?

Why does agriculture laugh

at the pale tears of the sky?

How did the abandoned bicycle

win its freedom?

 

XXXI.

Whom can I ask what I came

to make happen in this world?

Why do I move without wanting to,

why am I not able to sit still?

Why do I go rolling without wheels,

flying without wings or feathers,

and why did I decide to migrate

if my bones live in Chile?