Tag: friendship

Jesus and a cocktail

Chimayo is a holy place in New Mexico.  It hosts many sites for religious observance from Zen to Christian to Hindu.  It is a place of pilgrimage on Good Friday to a church well-known for cures.   But I like its cocktail.   Served in a frosted glass – its...

Brother Eldridge’s Mississippi Corn Bread One batch (serves 8) 4 tbsp bacon grease or butter 1 c. flour 1 c. course cornmeal 4 tsp baking powder ¼ tsp soda 1 ½ c. butter milk 2 lg or 3 sm eggs ¬ preheat oven to 425 ¬ melt butter or grease...

Friendship

  Friendship is the molten core of the Gospel of John and is the molten core of our faith. Not worship.  Not service.  Not Advocacy of the poor in money or faith. Not church buildings.  Not organs or choirs. Not vestries or Bishop’s edicts. Not memos. Not feasts nor fasts. ...

Rye, reality and relationships

Making spice bowls, like this one which holds brown sugar, is fast work.  A ball of clay the size of a golf ball and in about 4 seconds it is a small bowl.  The redish brown of the brown sugar sets nicely against the blues of the glaze. This little...

new freinds

I had a bunch of friends over to the house for a friend’s birthday party.  We made Brazilian drinks, I made pad thai and they set up a labyrinth with candles and paper bags in the grass. We ate. We drank. We walked the labyrinth. We talked about friendship and...

Friendship: Easter antidotes

Friends gathered around me recently and hosted me for dinner.  They made me a meal, poured me scotch - expensive scotch, even though they knew I could not taste it - and then, after dinner, they sat me down with evident excitement and read to me as the cool night...