Sunday Prayer

SOUL AND THE OLD WOMAN

What is the soul? Consciousness.  The more awareness, the
deeper the soul, and when

such essence overflows, you feel a sacredness around.  It's 
so simple to tell one who

puts on a robe and pretends to be a dervish from the real
thing.  We know the taste

of pure water.  Words can sound like a poem but not have
any juice, no flavor to

relish.  How long do you look at pictures on a bathhouse
wall?  Soul is what draws

you away from those pictures to talk with the old woman
who sits outside by the door

in the sun.  She's half blind, but she has what soul loves
to flow into.  She's kind; she weeps.

She makes quick personal decisions, and laughs so easily.

- RUMI -

‘Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation’ by Michael Pollen

Joe Yonan, the Washington Post’s Food and Travel editor reviews Michael Pollen’s latest book ‘Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation:’

Why bother cooking? The reasons to skip it are stacked as high as the microwavable meals in a Costco freezer case. You don’t have time, of course (or you think you don’t); that’s the big one. But you also don’t do it as well as the professionals, so it’s tempting to let them handle it for you. Or at least let them give you a head start in the form of meal-assembly shops, cake mixes, and canned, frozen and pre-chopped ingredients.

Michael Pollan thinks you should bother, and not just as a fashionable exercise in hipsterdom. His latest book, “Cooked,” is a powerful argument for a return to home cooking of the sort that doesn’t begin with an attempt to find the perforated opening.

(Penguin Press) – “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation” by Michael Pollan