Food on Fridays: Tea Time

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. If you want, you can simply list all the yellow food sitting in your fridge right now (butter, mustard). You could even stage a still life photo to upload and share. Anyway, my point is that posts like that are as welcome as menus and recipes.

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  1. Breakfast Bars
  2. Quinoa Stuffed Peppers, Roasted Chickpeas, Steak
  3. Understanding Nutritionism & Problem w/ Formula
  4. Janis @ Open My Ears Lord; Peanut Butter Bars
  5. Baking From Scratch
  6. Feels Like Home (baked apple pecan pancakes)
  7. German Apple Cake
  8. "Easy Peasy" Potato and Leek Soup
  9. sara (green beans with pine nuts)
  10. Mary @ Giving Up on Perfect (breakfast casserole)
  11. Roasted Butternut Squash
  1. My Mothers Sauce
  2. Crock Pot Chocolate Lava Cake
  3. Me Oh My, Chicken Pot Pie
  4. Sopa De Arroz from The Mommy On the Bus Says. . .
  5. Bittman Home Fries At A Moderate Life
  6. Brain Jello Recipe
  7. Lindas Lunacy – White Chicken Chili
  8. Apple Betty
  9. Shirley @ gfe (Popeye Protein and Fruit Bars)
  10. Heather Goodman @ L'Chaim–The Tea Daily Ritual
  11. Breastfeeding Moms Unite! Moosewood Apple Crisp
  12. This linky list is now closed.

Food on Fridays with Ann

My friend LL Barkat is on a tea pilgrimage.

She’s reading about tea, writing about tea, and of course drinking tea.

In her post “Suddenly Tea is Solace and Story,” she wrote this:

Tea has been my companion for a good long while. My mother gave me the ritual of tea when I was a child, and I have carried it into adulthood.

But suddenly I am looking at this drink I hold daily, this companion I have steeped from bags and loose leaves, in pots and cups. I am reading about the history of tea, its chemical properties, its rich cultural and literary connections. I am even writing poetry … Where will my new attention to tea take me? I suspect that doesn’t matter. For now, it is taking me right here, to my own cup and the stories it holds.

Suddenly

Solace is me, opening
pages, white leaves that whisper
the secrets, the stories of tea.

What secrets and stories of tea can we share? What solace might we find?

Won’t you talk tea with me (and LL)?

If your thoughts are brief, leave them in the comments; if you have more to say about your history and experience with tea, write a post about it sometime this week, and next Food on Fridays can have a focus on tea.

So, for this week and next, let’s join LL, however briefly, on her journey…her pilgrimage.

Let’s join her for tea.

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The High Calling #goodwork in San Antonio

We’re on a boat. Eating dinner. Talking about the game we just played that required considerable texting.

After we all arrived in Texas, we immediately launched into the game. This photo, taken after the game, is on a river barge set up with tables and chairs. Left to right, there’s Ann V., Cheryl, Deidra, Sam, and Dan (standing). And in the background, our tour boat commentator with the hat.

We spent the afternoon on a photo scavenger hunt. Our team didn’t have a way to upload our photos to Twitter, so we just took some snapshots as we went along, and I tweeted. So I didn’t really see San Antonio; my head was buried in my phone.

We were to locate various landmarks and/or connect with people who were working, complimenting them, asking questions, and posing for a photo when possible. All the while, we were to be tweeting where we were and what we were doing, encouraging their “good work,” turning it into a game with the Twitter hashtag: #goodwork.

Here, for example, is The High Calling photo editor Claire Burge complimenting and thanking a security guard at The Alamo.

The tweets (most recent on the top on down to oldest/earliest):

We just spoke w/gabriel a mariachi player. “I was born into it. I have been playing every day since I was 5.” #goodwork

@MaryDeMuth Thanks for the #goodwork (& good word)! Hugs back from @gyoung9751 @claireburge @dukeslee & me!

we found some real ducks by the river! #goodwork

we are in riverwalk area of san antonio @thehighcalling ideas? #goodwork

our @thehighcalling team would love a picture idea from our community. check out other teams’ twitphotos via #goodwork for ideas.

@katdish maybe we aren’t far from you? #goodwork

@katdish maybe we aren’t too far from you??

Our @thehighalling group is standing on a riverwalk bridge. We r trying to bring #goodwork party to everyone in community! RT w/ hashtag fun

@momfluential did somebody say nutella?? you are distracting me from the #goodwork game & san antonio tour w/ @thehighcalling !

@Doallas we are having a great time & you are helping make #goodwork a trending topic!

Thanks @doallas fo the RT! Keep up the #goodwork !

Our @thehighcalling #goodwork game has us at the buckhorn museum & childrens museum.

standing w/ @thehighcalling team members in front of the emily morgan hotel in san antonio #goodwork

@thehighcalling at ripley’s wax museum. @gyoung9751 & @claireburge look so real! #goodwork

WE are an excited workplace team @thehighcalling !! #goodwork

we r buying ice cream for alex who says, “I feel very comfortable about it. Why not? I love ice cream!” #goodwork

remebering teddy roosevelt’s #goodwork here at menger bar.


@claireburge quotes coco chanel who says “to be remembered, you need to be different.” #goodwork

@claireburge is writing encouraging postcard to Howard Butt & @dukeslee is writing David Rogers. #goodwork @gyoung9751 & I r messing w/phone

The Alamo!! thank you @thehighcalling & @laitylodge for this opportunity! #goodwork

we r at hard rock cafe w/ @dukeslee fake interviewing melissa etheridge poster. we r desperate for points #goodwork

we are at beautiful mokara hotel (used to be the watermark hotel) #goodwork @omnihotels in san antonio.

got a photo in front of aztec movie theater w/ @dukeslee for @thehighcalling #goodwork game.

@claireburge just sent a text to her mom saying “i love you & you did a great job.” #goodwork

hi @arestlessheart ! wish we could upload the fun photos for #goodwork game!

we just ducked at riverwalk. #goodwork

@gypsymama say hi to us, too! #goodwork we love you!

@claireburge is leaving a nicholas sparks book for some random san antonio visitor or resident. #goodwork

@claireburge said thank you to one of her employees via email for job well done. #goodwork

we have a photo of @mgoodyear giving directions on how to find zombies. #goodwork

riverwalk bridge with team @gyoung9751 #goodwork wish i could attach photos!

beautiful san fernando cathedral. #goodwork

got a picture in front of drury hotel & gave sweets to receptionist, complimenting her for #goodwork . gave plug for @laitylodge too.

the snack shop employee in san antonio is doing a great job & likes her boss. #goodwork (this is a scavenger hunt assigned by @mgoodyear

just complimented hairstylist at rooster’s grooming center. the guy said she did great, too. #goodwork

Team @gyoung9751 is thankful for @lylawlindquist ‘s help! Wish u were here @thehighcalling #goodwork

Finally, this isn’t a tweet–it’s just a cute shot of Jennifer Dukes Lee in front of some big sculpture.

Here are Glynn Young and Claire at the Landing.

And here are Gordon and Claire, sitting down after a long and tiring Scavenger Hunt.

That was day one. We arrived at Laity Lodge very late, fell into our cushy beds, and slept.

It’s an honor to be here, representing the High Calling community. We want to share this time as best we can—please visit The High Calling Facebook page for current photos and status updates, thanks to our Social Media Editor, Dan King. It’s our small (but high-tech) way to gather online and share this with you.

Love is Patient, Love is Pink

Today’s Reflection by Mark D. Roberts (via The High Calling) is entitled, “I’m Glad Love Is Patient, But Could You Please Hurry Up and Change?

His lead grabbed this Not So Fast girl:

I recently read a fascinating book by James Gleick. It’s called Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Pantheon, 1999). Gleick shows how our lives have been sped up by technology and the cultural shifts it has spawned. “We have reached the epoch of the nanosecond,” notes the author, “This is the heyday of speed.” [Read more...]

True Woman 2010

The True Woman 2010 conference came to Indiana.

And 6,000 women came to True Woman.

Among those 6,000 women are many friends of mine from the area, and some from farther away.

One of those friends from farther away is Erin, of filling my patch of sky, a blogger I came to know several years ago, enjoying her well written, bright and thoughtful posts; she’s also part of the High Calling community. We discovered that we would both be attending True Woman 2010 and made plans to meet up. [Read more...]

Food on Fridays: No-Prep Breakfast

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. You can list all the green food sitting in your fridge right now, if you want. Anyway, my point is that posts like that are as welcome as menus and recipes. [Read more...]

Dry as a Creek Bed: Concrete vs. Abstract

“Look at the creek, Mama!”

We were at a park, jogging across the bridge that spans a creek where my daughter remembered the water so high and the current so strong, it seemed alive and powerful, threatening to knock her over as she waded in practically up to her hips. She remembered how her feet sank into mud. Slick moss or algae coated the rocks. [Read more...]

Think Twice Before Befriending a Kroeker

One of my daughters has a good friend who invited her to a fall festival last weekend.

They ate fair-type food, rode carnival rides, and stayed up late listening to local bands perform. When my daughter visits this girl’s house, she swims with her friend in their pool, explores the woods by their creek, plays Wii, and finishes the day eating pizza and Oreos. [Read more...]

Food on Fridays: Vintage Apple Pie

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. If all you want to do is link to the article in the Wall Street Journal about the guy who eats bugs, do it. Anyway, my point is that posts like that are as welcome as menus and recipes. [Read more...]

Notes on Writing: Let My Life Speak (and other thoughts)

I found an old spiral-bound notebook.

Inside, old notes.

They are about writing, I guess. And they are sketchy. Spare:

Food on Fridays: Food Fights Are Not Fun

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Here at the Food on Fridays carnival, any post remotely related to food is welcome—though we love to try new dishes, your post doesn’t have to be a recipe. If you want to describe a worm that crawled out of an apple at your local U-Pick orchard, do it. And be sure to include a picture. Anyway, my point is that posts like that are as welcome as menus and recipes. [Read more...]