Miso Noodle Soup

Ingredients

Deboles Noodles
Instant Miso or
3 tablespoons of Miso Paste
Wakame
1/4 cup of olive oil
1 clove of garlic
ginger (an inch is good but depends on your taste)
3 cups of water or more depending on the amount of pasta being cooked
Brocolli
Spinach
Braggs Amino Acids
Sea Salt


Directions

prepare the Debole's noodles as directed

Blend the Miso soup ingredients/or prepare the instant package, heat and pour on top of the wakame

Let the soup sit for a couple of minutes and add the noodles.

Add sea salt and braggs to taste.

(I add broccoli to the bottom of my bowl and pour the noodle soup on. I then pile spinach on top. You can also add shredded carrots, mushrooms (if that's your thing..)...)

Papaya and Strawberry Shake

Papaya is excellent for digestion and strawberries are packed with antioxidants.
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About a fourth of a papaya (I'm not sure how much this is in terms of cups)
Eight large strawberries
Hemp Milk or Almond (the amount you use depends on your smoothie preferences, the less the thicker, the more the smoother)
Agave (again this depends on your taste preferences but be sure to taste the shake before sweetening it, your fruits may have already done the job)


Blend
Bless
Enjoy

Message to the Artist

"If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you."

Jesus
The Gnostic Gospels

CREATE!

Happened Upons or Word Sketches from an Old Notebook

Jasmine

She sways
light bounces and reflects off her head
she is literally laced
she smiles and you smile

Her hands
craft jewelry
bake peach biscuits
garden
invite me to belly dance

Sister locked
upon first meeting she cornered me with good intention
and I am in awe of this goddess
who honors life despite urban context
she sways

Malcolm

All pronounced
you brought me to myself
El Hajj to my divinity
Omowale because you came to your own
In our name

Omowale
Beauty so deep it tempts me to tears
words I whisper softly "Kaaba" "Zam Zam" "Al-Safa" Al-Marwah"
It suites you

Kevin

Because you were the only rhythm strong enough to disrupt my trance

Inspiring Storybooks for Young Women

Bandy Bandy

The Still Mind

Bikram is an intense form of Yoga. Postures are assumed inside of closed sauna like rooms where the temperature is about one hundred and five degrees. The most challenging aspect of Yoga for me has always been concentration. When I focus on discomfort and the amount of strength I am exerting to maintain difficult poses, I break and fall out of alignment.

One of my teachers, Jagadeesha, has helped me to overcome being startled out of form. He told me to detach and to remain present, engaging only what I will. “Be still,” he said. I have applied this teaching to my yoga practice with much success but have always strived to assume this attitude in my daily life. There are instances throughout all of our days when it seems that almost everything and everyone around us is vying for our peace. “React to me in anger,” they say, “stress, worry, doubt, fear, be annoyed, be irritated.”

Yet the reality of our life challenges is that we are better able to address them in a state of peace. Stress, fear, anger, irritation and the other emotions that I mentioned above, are all extremely detrimental to our well being in terms of physical and mental health as well as spirituality. The endocrine system is damaged when we err in these states too often and too long. Folk also develop ulcers and cancers and ultimately exist in a lower level of being.

Work, performance and creativity are also stifled by an inability to transcend the emotional and sensual body. In Irritation: The Destructive Fire, Torkom Saraydariah states, “Many promising artists fail on their path of success when they tolerate irritation moving in and poisoning their being.” I realize that in the same that I lose my stance during yoga by focusing on the negative, I lose my stance in my life’s work when I allow myself to focus on everything that is not a higher idea, higher vision or higher thought. I am not arguing that we should be impervious to our emotions but that we should allow ourselves to do as Badu advises in Bag Lady, “let it go”.

I absolutely refuse to allow anything to take away my peace and wholeness. Yet I realize that my attention must not be directed at everything and everybody who/that I perceive as a threat to my peace. I must focus on directing and remaining aware of the lens that I perceive the world with because it is at the root of every one of my dilemmas. It is also my salvation. Check any study, positive thinking is the secret of success. At this point I think of challenging situations as just that—challenges. The challenge exists so that I can exercise my resolve to be well and as I contend I grow stronger in it.

Strategies for maintaining peace

Patience
Joy
Beauty
Clear sight of goals
Love
Light
Mantras
Humility
Wisdom
Flowers