Peacock Dreams

Food of Life

yezida

11/19/08 07:56 am

Do not savor that which is bitter in your heart. Remember also, there is something sweet. The bitterness is but a sharp reminder to awaken and the sweetness calls you back to the home of blood beating in your veins, of feet dancing down the winter rain, of the coming in of something, always new.

Do not bathe in the bitter, it is but a tang for the living. Let your tongue dance instead to spices and smoothness, to voluptuous richness of flavor. Call in cinnamon, and apple. Call in hope.

Kiss the world, in all it's beauty, and it's sorrow. Kiss your life, ever returning to the sources of our love.


(eat the music)

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• luna_virgo

  11/19/08 06:55 pm (UTC)

  

  "Do not savor that which is bitter in your heart. Remember also, there is something sweet."
  
  Thank you for reminding me.

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• bythebootstraps

  11/19/08 08:14 pm (UTC)

  

  I was eating broccoli rabe while reading this post. It was a surreal moment to savor the bitter in my mouth while being implored not to do so in my heart. ;-)

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  • yezida

    11/19/08 08:16 pm (UTC)

    

    yum!

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• arielmn

  11/20/08 12:21 am (UTC)

  

  Thank you for this.

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• nkaramarek

  11/20/08 04:14 am (UTC)

  

  Brilliant... and much needed!

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• eldriwolf

  11/20/08 07:23 pm (UTC)

  

  ---but, I want it ALL !
  The bitter *and* the sweet---I *Want* that tiny bitter edge to my sweet apple---the beauty *and* the sorrow---I want to ignore nothing, to deny nothing.
  
  to savor the whole world--ALL of it----Too much bitter can overwhelm, too much sweet can Also make you sick...
  Each, in the right amount, makes us alive and healthy---and, "the right amount" might be different at different times, even for the same person

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  • yezida

    11/23/08 03:48 pm (UTC)

    

    Yes. Inclusion is powerful practice - as I wrote, the bitter adds a tang to life - however, sometimes we get stuck in it and savor it too much.

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• loveandpower

  11/20/08 07:27 pm (UTC)

  

  Thank you for this. Gorgeous.
  Kisses

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• Takin in the sweetness...

  shen_tat

  11/24/08 02:21 am (UTC)

  

  Thank you, Thorn!
  
  I was just needing to remind myself of this truth...
  
  

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