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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
Off the Cuff / My Other Journal
#720024 added March 18, 2011 at 4:23pm
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Cooking...
Do I have to be Mexican to love the Mexicans or to be Irish to love the Irish? I don’t think so. Yesterday, was St. Pat’s day, and since I consider myself an honorary Irish lass or rather old hag, I cooked Beef Brisket and cabbage stew all in the same pot, according to a recipe I found, just the way an Irish wife would cook the family meal in one hanging pot over the hearth, as the food fed a whole family and even some neighbors who dropped in.

In my case, however, I need to feed only hubby and me, and since I followed a recipe, I have enough to feed ten people for ten days, which may mean St. Pat has to drive the snakes away from my house for a couple of weeks or so.

Now I wonder what I’ll cook on Cinco de Mayo…Just the thought of it burns my mouth. *Laugh*

And I’m not even a cook, although I like cooking. My cooking meanders just like my writing while I wonder what my next out-of-the ordinary dish will be? Purple Peruvian Potato Hash? Well, why not? As soon as I find out what makes Peruvians tick—by July 28, Fiestas Patrias …

On the other hand, come next St. Patrick's day in 2012, I think I'll write a limerick instead of cooking. *Laugh*

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