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Nanda,the Pariah saint
"Kill a hundred sheep," continued the oracle,"and two hundred fowls" and offer them with pots of toddy to god karuppan and his brothers,and they say that Nanda will at once be cured.The great gods are extremely angry with you for having neglected them so long."The oracle ceased and immediately a large dancing group of middle aged pariahs was arranged and they sang.
PidAri great,the guardian dev
of all our fields,poor nandan save!
Nanda added:
None but natesan(nataraja)has that power
For he's my chosen lord and lover.
They sang
O vira dark with turban Huge
Beneath thy feet we seek refuge
Nanda said:
No turban could you make for one
who filleth all these worlds alone
They sang(admiringly)
IruLa fat with aspect Brave,
Thy belly is of Goats the grave
Trust not ye fools!to demons base,
But Him who is all love and grace.
The enthusiastic dancers heard not Nanda,or at any rate heeded him not;but the dance was followed by a more serious affair-the butchering of inncent fowls and sheep.Nanda rose and vehemently protested against it,but in vain;he eloquently preached to them about the grace and glory of the creator,invited them to throw away their wicked gods and barbarous sacrifices and exhorted them to join with him in the worship of the beautiful,eternal Nataraja,but all his words were as pearls cast before the swine;nay worse than that,they tended to strengthen the current notions about his madness.
Nanda turned away from that ignorant multitude in sorrow and filled with pity for them,prayed to God that they might be saved.With every moment of prayer,the longing to visit chidambaram gained new strength,till it grew irrepressible and forced him to apply to his master for leave.After considerable hesitation,the Brahmin landlord was asked;but in the meantime ,the pious devotees of pidari and company,finding that their gods had no power over nanda,had carried their appeal to the more powerful tribunal of their visible agricultural landlord,who unlike the invisible gods vouchsafed a prompt enquiry.Nanda appeared before his master just a little after the above deputation had gone from there and made his application.
"Eh,you going chidambaram,you pariah fool!You want to become a B r a h m i n???" jeered the landlord.Nanda was thunderstruck,he felt himself undone and returned weeping without speaking a word.He went to the shade of his favourite tree,and there wept in Torrents."O God."he said to himself,"How cruel art thou!I have no right to blame the Brahmin,he ofcourse spoke under Thy prompting,for not an atom moves save at Thy bidding.I am a poor pariah too low for Thy Grace,Ah!how cold art thou!Thou hast no pity on this wretched,miserable forlorn creature.I have nothing to be proud of-no wealth,no beauty,no fame,no learning and as if these were not enough I am born a low caste bondsman.All this was nothing to me,so long as I had hope of Thy Grace,and now i have been deprived of even that.Oh God,How then can I live?".
But hope,that most wonderful of all things,again asserted itself and he thought:"God knows what is best for me,infinitely better than I do.I shall resign myself to His Will in all things great and small.The Brahmin master may relent and I am sure when I am fit to enter His Presence,i shall be allowed to do so."
A few days later,a second application was made for leave and with a similiar result of refusal combined with rebuke;but the disappointment this time had a different effect on him;he consoled himself with the idea that he was not yet fitted for the Holy Presence,and that therefore he should strive to be more pious and god-loving and purer in heart.He redoubled his meditation that there might not be in his waking state a single moment in which God was forgotten,curtailed his hours of sleep,danced in a wild and ecstatic way both morning and evening,and at other times wept for God's grace or rejoiced over his illimitable glory.In the stream,in the bird,in the tree,in man,in short wherever he saw life,there he felt the presence of Nataraja;and under heavy sway of this strange fancy,often played with the stream,embraced the tree,ran after the bird and did a thousand wild things which positively confirmed his kinsmen in the idea of his lunacy.
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Nanda,the pariah saint
The poor folk tried all sorts of remedies,even bound him by fetters and tortured him,but all in vain.To him,everything in the world was divine,and his love and tenderness to living creatures was simply boundless:he would feed the ants with sugar,would take up the worms from the roadside lest they might be scorched by sun or crushed under the feet of passers-by,play with the children and enjoy the music of the birds as if he were himself one of them.
In the meanwhile however harvest time had come and ,his kinsmen being desperately engaged with him,work in the fields suffered.The landlord got enraged and sent for his men.all of them came,except nanda,and related everything that happened.The Brahmin angrily dismissed them and sent for nanda.Nanda came and bowed to his master and stood.The Brahmin was greatly surprised at the remarkable degree of joy and calmness and humility that shone in his face.It clearly struck him that nanda was no ordinary man,and that what was misconstrued by the ignorant pariahs as madness was nothing but an extravagance of piety and fervour;but he did not want to encourage him,and got really angry when the request to go chidambaram was put forward;yet he was moved at the extremely piteous,sincere and imploring way in which it was urged and the quivering and suspense with which his reply was awaited,as if a soul's destiny hung upon his one word;and so he gently replied:"nanda,you are really a good fellow,but you have fallen into wild ways;you have not been doing your work properly of late.This is the harvest season,the corn has to be reaped,after all the harvest is gathered in,I shall grant you leave to go to chidambaram!".
No sooner was this said than Nanda sprang into the fields like a wild deer,and a few hours later ,again called at the landlord's backyard
.When the Brahmin asked why he was wanted,Nanda replied:"Do me the favour sir,to go into the fields," and led the way followed by his master;and what was the latter's wonder when he found that the whole of his vast paddy fields has been reaped and the harvest gathered in like a mountain of gold-all the work of a single man,and that in a space of a few hours!
The landlord could hardly believe his eyes,and struggled to know if he was not dreaming:what he saw was no vision but a concrete and thorough reality,and when convinced of this,he could only say:"Nanda,you could not have done this work,not all your kinsmen together ,what a miracle has God worked in my fields through you.This is the reward of your devotion-the proof to us,incredulous fools of your greatness.Nanda,you are the Holiest,and purest man that I have known,God's dearest Bhakta,Ah!what a sin have I commited by treating you as a slave,-from this moment,I am thy slave and this whole estate is yours.Bless me and recommend me to that High God who is so near and dear and kind to you."
Nanda's feat was at the same time a miracle and not a miracle-not a miracle in the superstitious sense generally attached to the word,but a miracle,a genuine miracle in that it was beyond the power and comprehension of ordinary men.Most of us are ignorant of the resources of love.Its intensity,its abundance and its wonderful possibilities are foreign to our mediocrity and when measured by our leaden standard,appear legendary.Love rolls the hills,leaps over the seas,annihilates the elements and shakes the universe.what can it not do and what has it not done?it is the energy of the soul,nay it is the soul itself and when nanda threw his whole soul into work on which hung the fulfillment of his life's objective,the result was what it was.The astounded Brahmin fell at his feet;and here by the way,it may be said to the credit of our caste system,that however rigorous it may be on the social plane,it has ever been liberal on the religious one.Many of the saints worshipped in our temples are men of the lower castes,some of them being of the very lowest;and the Brahmin is as ready to-day(Rajam iyer) as he was in the days of Nanda to fall at the feet of any man irrespective of caste,if any high religious merit be at least plausibly claimed.
Nanda ran to his master,and raised him up,repeatedly fell at his feet and with tears in his eyes said:"My Lord,what a sin you have commitedby bowing to your pariah slave",to which the Brahmin replied:"You are no longer either a pariah or a slave,you the holist of men;Go to chidambaram,but bless me before you go,forgive mefor my treatment to you and recommend me to God's High Grace." Saying this,he took nanda's hands and placing them on his head(our heads as well-ravi)implored him to give some parting advice. "This is all that your humble slave could say,my lord," said Nanda, "Love God as well as you love your wife,children,lands and wealth.What more does this uncultured slave know?".
The Brahmin looked at the radiant face of Nanda and worshipping him once again reluctantly let him go.With great many kindly exchanges they parted;but hardly had nanda gone a few yards,when the Brahmin ran upto him and asked :"Nanda,dear Nanda,O my Guru,when may I see you back?When will you return?" Nanda replied:"Now,O Master,we part once for all.O my Lord,who really goes to Chidambaram and comes back?I loathe again to enter into this mortal coil.My master,I hope no longer to return." The Brahmin did not understand what Nanda said,but we may perhaps do from the sequel of the narrative.
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Nanda,the Pariah saint
No deer that newly escaped from the hunter's toils,no barren woman just blessed with a male child,no blind man that newly received the gift of light,was more rejoiced than Nanda the pariah who was relieved from the work which stood between him and God.His heart sang:
The Drug that cures my grief,the fear-not-drug
The Drug that spreads through all the worlds alike
The Medicine of Grace,the wondrous drug
That grows within,the drug that feasts my love;
The Drug of growing light,the drug that cures the ill
of life,the Drug great and ineffable.
The story goes that the Earth shook with joy,the grasses waved with delight and a few rain drops of joy fell from the Heaven.Nanda sang and jumped like a veritable deer.He jumped with delight.His eyes and ears were hardly his.From Adhanur he reached colladam.The river was in full flood.The waves were rolling forth one after another for very joy as it were.Nanda looked at the river,saw the deep water yet clear,saw the Living Flood and claimed eternal kinship with it.A boat came;a black boatman steered it,and with a sunburnt face,with his sweat ,covered all over the body,but bearing the traces of the white ashes it wore and smelling of sweet camphor.Nanda saw him and worshipped him,for he was Nataraja in his eyes;and getting into the boat for hire sang to a surprised audience about the unfading glory of the Prince of Dancers.He said:
The drug which made me him,the dancing drug
That dances in wisdom's sphere,the silent drug
The poorman's friend,the rarest drug,the drug
Both First and last,The Drug that seeks out those
That seek it not,that which my hunger soothes,
The Loneliest Drug,the pure man's help,the Light,
The Drug that cures false loves and avarice kills,
That which Earth-hunger soothes,the drug which plays
Hide-and-seek,the Drug which is all within
The Heart that Loves,that is my strength and Joy.
NatarAja Guru,NatarAjA,NatarAjA,...
Nanda dancedon the Boat.The people in the boat danced with nanda.The sun-burnt boatman forgot his oar and danced with the people.The boat dancing this way and that,dragged itself to the shore.Nanda leapt on the ground-sacred it was,it was the territory of NatarAjA,put his hand into his lap searching for a few copper coins,the fruit of his toil,but the boatman wept and would not take the hire.
Ten minutes were the interval for crossing the river and within that time the Bhakta was recognized and worshipped by a band of men who became his Bhaktas.The Boatman left his boat;The man of business forgot his business;the ploughman left aside his plough.A dancing group formed itself.They danced for very joy.The Tower of Chidambaram ,grand,majestic,loomed from a distance and beckoned Nanda.
Nanda looked at the tower of Nataraja,bowed before it and worshipping it,covered the ground with the other devotees until the base of the tower was visible.The temple gate was in view.And Nanda sang:"Here is the Gate of the Kailas,the gate that opens to the good alone,the gate from which no good man ever returns,that through which Saint mAnikkar entered and sang to the echo of these High walls his divine anthems of ecstacy,the Gate through which that poet of poets appar entered and sang his majestic vedas,the gate through which Sundarar entered and enjoyed the secret nuptials with the prince of Lovers.my brothers and friends and kinsmen,here God is and is not.Here he is both form and no form.Here he dances and is quiet.Here it is that the ignorant are blessed with wisdom and the wise lose their senses.Here he is space and Light.And here he is both the creator and the destroyer." And that is why appar sang:-
The tillai Dancer,wrapt by watery fields
around,this helpless slave to forget and live!
Walking further they reached the sacred precincts of Chidambaram.The associates of Nanda,though of higher caste would not go into the town and enter the temple without Nanda.For 3 days,Nanda sang praises of the Lord and waited along with the other devotees.
Tradition rich in legends and folklore asserts that all the Dikshitars(priests of the Chidambaram temple)on one and the same remarkable Night,dreamt that NatarAjA appeared to them in their vision and directed them to take into their Brahmin fold,the purest of his Bhaktas,Nanda ,the pariah saint.It was a beautiful morning,when the sun had just risen,and the Dikshitars had returned from their bath with sacred ashes besmeared all over their bodies and Rudrakshas hanging loosely round their necks,assembled a miscellaneous council in the devasabha,their general meeting place within the temple.
Appiah Dikshitar,the eldest of the group,rose and told his wonderful dream-how Nataraja appeared before him,and related the possibility of purifying Nanda by means of a fire -bath.Kuppanna Dikshitar ,his immediate successor confirmed the dream by his own experience.Subbah dikshitar saluted the two previous speakers and expressed his surprise at the coincidence of his dream with those related;and all the Dikshitars simultaneously rose and expressed the uniformity of their dreams.at once,when the wind was blowing fiercely and the sun was burning hot,arrangements were made for a sacred fire being reared.
Meanwhile Nanda had just risen from a long trance and was singing:
My Mind,Go tell my Lovely Lord that I
Bow to His Golden Feet that dance on High.
Just then,the Dikshitars appeared in a body before himand bowing to him,to his great surprise,related to him their wonderful dreams,and took him over to the corner of the South mAda Street where the Fire had been prepared.The pious devotee at once sprang into the fire joyfully singing:"My father Isa's feet are cool like the effulgent evening moon,the faultless Vina,the Breeze that unceasingly blows,the spring that swells,a tank round which bees hum and swarm."
Nanda passed through the crucible unhurt.He was taken by the admiring Dikshitars from the South mAda street through the Eastern Tower gate broad like the vedas and speedily led on by the side of kambattuadi mantapa(Subramanya's shrine)and the square tank,and across the deva sabha into the common platform,midway between Sri Govindaraja Perumal and the Dancing NatarAjA.
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Nanda,the pariah saint
Where once stood appar singing his famous hymn:
"He is my Lord,He who is rare,He who lives in the bosom of the Gracious,He who resides in the temple of the vedas and in the atom,the true god yet unknown,who is sweet like honey and milk,the abounding light of heaven,the God of gods Brahma and vishnu,the Great invisible spirit that pervades the Rolling sea and the Mountain chains.the days on which I forget to sing His Praise are days in which I did not live."
Where stood mAnikkar fainting with Love and pouring forth his remarkable upanishads;and where great men have left the dust of their feet to inspire noble and pious souls that may come after them.There now Nanda stood and on both sides of the Kanaka sabha (the Golden mantapa)huge ocean-voiced bells poured forth their joyous chimes.appiah dikshitar entered into the shrine and made puja to the Lord waved the lighted camphor before the Lord.Nanda rushed to the sanctum sanctorum and disappeared ,singing his swan song:
Nataraja my Lord,Nataraja my Love,
My Lord,I come,I come my Love,
We both are only one from now;
Thou art I,and myself art thou.
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Dear Ravi,
Nice to read the story again about Nandanar, tiru nALaip pOvar. It is one of the finest stories of 63 Saints, though in such
detail Sekizhar did not say it. Later when Gopala Krishna Bharatiyar and a few others made some of these stories as 'dance
dramas' - sangeetha nAtaka kirtanams, the glory of Nanda and other saints became more popular. Recently I witnessed one
video that is running for about 15 minutes, about Tiru poR chuNNam of Sri Manikkavachagar. There the heavenly damsels
pound bathing powder for Siva's bath! When this was seen as a dance drama, it was more entertaining. It came in
Arunachala Siva.
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Yes,the nandanAr charitra keerthanai of Sri Gopalakrishna bharatiyar is a wonderful work that is full of moving songs.To see Dance Drama performance of the story of these Great saints is indeed a delight.The Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai staged a performance of KaNNappa nAyanAr story-it was absolutely rivetting,especially where thiNNanAr goes into the Forest and comes across kudumi thEvar among the KALahasthi hills.How Love fathomless gushes out and how he feels a deep compassion for the Lord and decides to feed and Protect the Lord!It was very well performed by all the artists.
I will check out what you have referred to in shaivam.org.Thanks very much.
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Dear Ravi.N, You were right,i ADORE this story!:-) It is very beautiful and inspiring,and i am reading it with tears and joy in my heart in the same time. Love it! Thank you for sharing it. Even,i feel like dansing right now.:-):-) And yes,i am from Serbia and,like you said,really is wonderful how love of God is bringing us all close to Him,to Sri Ramana,Arunachala,and eachother. I really feel blessed. Those are all His workings,and ways. And how wonderful is that! This world is He,and everything Is by Him only. What a beautiful play! Thank you for the kind words. I wish you too Very Best dear Ravi.
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You are Blessed with Deep Devotion.Thanks very much for your Blessings.
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Dear Ravi.N, Thank You sooo much!
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You may be interested in the talks on the devotees of Sri Bhagavan, by Sri V Ganesan that has been brought out in book form.It is quite an absorbing account.you may download it here:
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Dear Ravi,
Thank You for the link. I am downloading it now,and cant wait to read it. Surely,i will enjoy it.
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O,there are all devotees! And pictures too! Great!
Thank You Dear Ravi!!!
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For sometime I have been thinking of Sharing the life story of one of the Great householder disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, Durgacharan NAg or
nAg MahAsya
about whom Swami VivekAnanda had said: "
I have traveled many places in the world, but nowhere have I come across such a great soul as Nag Mahashay"
I intend posting his life story in instalments here.
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Nag Mahasaya 1846-1899
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Life of Nag Mahasaya,Householder disciple of Sri Ramakrishna
There is a saying, 'Gurus are available by the thousands, but real disciples are very few.' A real disciple is one who translates the teachings of his guru into the actions of his life. Durga Charan Nag was one such rare soul. Once he overheard Sri Ramakrishna say, 'It is very difficult for doctors, lawyers, and brokers to advance on the path to God'. Referring to doctors in particular he said, 'If the mind dwells on tiny drops of medicine, how can it conceive of the Infinite?' Durga Charan was then practicing homeopathic medicine. He noticed that most of the time his mind was reflecting on them faces of his patients, and this disturbed his meditation. He therefore thought that the advice was meant for him. Immediately he resolved, 'I will not make my living from that procession which is an obstacle to the realization of God'. He returned home and that very day threw his medicine box and medical books into the Ganga.
According to Vedantic tradition, the life of a householder is based on spirituality. He should follow the path of truth and dedicate the results of all his actions to the Supreme Being. It is not an easy path. 'He is true hero', said Sri Ramakrishna, 'who can perform all the duties of the world with his mind fixed on god. None but a very strong man could stop to admire a bridal procession moving by while carrying a load of two maunds[164 pounds] on his head'.
It was because of his extraordinary personality that Durga Charan Nag came to be known as Nag Mahashay.
Swami Vivekananda once said about him, 'I have traveled many places in the world, but nowhere have I come across such a great soul as Nag Mahashay.'
He began studies in the Campbell Medical School but, for some unknown reason, discontinued them after a year and a half. Later he studied homeopathy under Dr. Behari Lal Bhaduri, a renowned physician of Calcutta. His success in his profession was immediate. He had a rare intuition in diagnosis and even as a student performed some remarkable cures. He refused to set any fixed fee for his services. Whatever people offered he accepted, than what he considered just. He treated poor patients free of charge, sometimes even giving money to them for food and medicine. Some unscrupulous people took advantage of his kindness, but he did not mind. He served men as God.
The lives of the mystic prove that when intense longing for god dawns in a soul, God responds and makes everything favourable for the devotee. One morning Durga Charan was seated on the bank of the Ganges when his family guru arrived there, unexpectedly, on a boat. When he was asked the reason for his coming to Calcutta, the guru replied, ` I have come at the special command of the Divine Mother to initiate you,'. However, the initiation only created in him more hunger for God. He was carried away by the divine intoxication and often lost outward consciousness. Once, while he was meditating on the bank of the Ganga, the flood tide rose and swept him into the river. It was several moments before full consciousness returned to him and he was able to swim ashore.
People read about God, talk about God, hear about God, but how many really want to experience him directly? This desire completely possessed Durga Charan. One day his friend Suresh came to him with news about Sri Ramakrishna, the saint of Dakshineswar. They both decided to immediately to Dakshineswar and see him. They arrived there about two in the afternoon and inquired about the Master. Pratap Hazra, a strange devotee, informed them that Sri Ramakrishna had gone to Chandannagore and asked them to come back another day. They were terribly disappointed and about to leave when they noticed someone inside a room beckoning them to enter. It was Sri Ramakrishna.
The Master received them cordially and asked them about themselves. During the course of the conversation he advised: ` Live world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud but its skin is always bright and shiny. Similarly, remain at home unattached and the skin of worldliness will not touch your mind'. He asked them to mediate into the Panchavati grove for some time, and then he took them too see the different temples. As they were leaving, Sri Ramakrishna said to them: `Come again. A relationship grows through frequent visits.'
It was a few months after his first meeting with Sri Ramakrishna that Durga Charan gave up his medical practice.
When Sri Ramakrishna passed away on August 16, 1886, Nag Mahashay quit eating and remained in bed. Hearing about this, Swami Vivekananda went to his house along with two of his brother disciples. After repeated requests he got up from bed, and Swami Vivekananda told him that they had come there for lunch. Immediately Durga Charan went to the market, brought back groceries, and cooked for them, but he would not eat anything himself. When they urged him to eat, he said, 'Alas, how can I offer food to this wretched body which has not yet been blessed with god-realization?' It was with great difficulty that Swami Vivekananda finally persuaded him to take some food.
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July 24th @ The Royals
With this game, Chien-Ming Wang's road ERA this season is now 4.44 - compared to a mark of 3.40 when he pitches in the Bronx.
Last year, Wang's ERA was 3.03 at home and 4.35 on the road. In 2005, his ERA was 3.55 at home and 4.65 on the road.
Anyone seeing a trend here? Home ERA near three - and the ERA is around four-and-a-half on the road. I think Chien-Ming likes Yankee Stadium - or vice-versa.
It's great to see the Yankees win these games that they're supposed to win. Now, it's time for Mussina and Igawa to show us something over the next two games. I'm less than sure that they will show us something good. That's why the last two games from Clemens and Wang are so important to the Yankees recent run.
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Buckwheat Mustard Loaf
>> Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Not enough food posts this week. That's because I've been too busy frolicking in this lovely weather we're having. I promise I'll get myself back into the kitchen (where we women belong, right?) ASAP. Hah. For those of you unfamiliar with sarcasm, please don't post about my snide anti-feminist comment. I'm only kidding! However, I'm a woman . . . I love my kitchen time . . . and among my many flours, sugars, and pretty appliances, I really do feel that I belong.
Today I'm sharing an experimental bread recipe -- mostly made up by me -- that turned out wonderfully. It's served best with the hummus-esque dip Stephen made to accompany it. Now, I didn't get fantastic photos (I hate, hate, HATE when that happens!), but I assure you. It's golden. And it's good.
(yields one delicious loaf that ultimately serves 16)
What you'll need . . .
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 1/4 cup beer (I used a lager, stick to darker brews)
- 3 tablespoons honey
- 3 tablespoons brown mustard
- 1 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 2 cups bread flour
- 1 to 1-1/2 cups buckwheat flour
- 1/8 to 1/4 cup chopped red onions
- 1/8 to 1/4 cup chopped zucchini
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon ground pepper
Method . . .
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk yeast into warm water until dissolved.
- Add beer, honey, mustard, salt, and bread flour (2 cups). Beat until smooth.
- Slowly stir in remaining flour until a soft dough forms (not too sticky, but not too dry).
- Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic for about 6-8 minutes.
- Place in a greased bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled (45 minutes).
- Punch down and fold chopped red onions and zucchini into the dough; shape into a loaf. Place in a greased 9 x 5 inch loaf pan.
- Cover and let rise until doubled, about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Mix together the oil and pepper. Brush top of loaf to generously coat.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Rotate pan and cover loosely with foil -- bake for an additional 10 to 15 minutes (until golden brown).
- Let cool in the pan and then move to cooling rack.
- Enjoy with the following dip . . .
Combine the following ingredients in a small foor processor until smooth.
- 1 can garbanzo beans
- 1/4 cup roasted red peppers (with some juice from the jar)
- 2 cap-fulls of lemon juice (so, 2 teaspoons?)
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- 2 teaspoons sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon garlic powder
- Dash paprika
- Freshly ground pepper (to taste)


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Theme and main/ central idea are the two different terms used in the Anchor Reading Standard 2. While different terms, both get at the same core concept: message. What does the author want the reader to take away? This is confusing for students and most adults. Teaching it as two different concepts is challenging. So how do introduce these concepts? As one!
I work with teachers to introduce this as one concept, with two different names. The title of this chart, It's All About the Message, captures this notion.
This chart was created with sixth grade students. You will notice that we used both main and central. We chose to do this because these students had just spent the previous year calling this the main idea. Now, as middle school students, the term had shifted to central idea. We wanted them to connect the two ideas and recognize them as synonymous.
- Vary the types of informational text and/ or literature that you list to suit your classroom. These choices made sense for what we were learning that year. Our list is not exhaustive. Some basics, like biographies had not been included. This list can and will grow throughout the year.
- Not good with the large text? Use a large sticky note or colored paper to write them, ideas, and message in an attractive format in advance. Stick it onto the chart as you discuss each term with students.
- Note the asterisks next to memoirs and autobiographies. We talked a lot about how these are considered to be true and based on facts. We then explored how the validity of that assumption depends on the honesty of the author.
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Two of my favorite Chaim Potok stories are The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev. Both books were adapted for the stage by playwright Aaron Posner. The later play, with Stephen Sachs directing, is now being featured at the Fountain Theatre (5060 Fountain, Los Angeles.)
Potok, who grew up in an Orthodox Jewish home, took advantage of his upbringing to enliven his stories with personal antidotes. The story, which takes full advantage of the back ground, covers a twenty year span and revolves around young Asher Lev (Jason Karasev), who, early on, discovers his talent for art. It is highly discouraged by his family (Anna Khaja plays his mother Rivkeh) especially when he starts drawing nudes and pictures of the crucifixion especially since he is not studying the Torah or Talmud as his father (Joel Polis) wants him to do.
Only the intercession of the Rebbe, the community's rabbinical leader, giving Asher his blessing and hooking him up with another artist, Jacob Kahn, to train him in the non-religious world of art.
There is smoking and some nudity in the play.
The talented Jason Karasev played both the young Asher as well as the older Asher, bringing tears to the eyes of the audience in his stark portrayal of a torn young man, while Joel Polis managed an easy transition not only as the father, but as the Rebbe, the artist Jacob, the brother and other men in Asher's life. Anna Khaja, too, showed the wide variety of her talents in both Rivkeh, Rachel and Anna.
Posner's version of My Name Is Asher Lev, a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays, was commissioned by Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company and premiered there to standing ovation in 2009. Recently, it appeared at the New York's Westside Theatre and earned the 2012-13 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play and the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award.
Set design is by Jeff McLaughlin while Ric Zimmerman did the effective lighting and original music and sound were done by Lindsay Jones. Shon LeBlanc did the costumes while Diane Martinous did the wigs. Misty Carlisle managed the props while Tyler Seiple was perfect as the accent coach. The production stage manager was Terri Roberts. The play was produced by Deborah Lawlor and Simon Levy.
Jewish or not, this moving culturally diverse play, has been extended to May 18,2014, is one that you don't want to miss. Times are Thursday, Friday and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Thursday and Fridays, seniors over 65 and students with ID have a special discount ($25.) Reserved tickets are $34. On site, secure parking is available for $5. The Fountain theatre is wheelchair accessible and air conditioned. For reservations and information call 323 663 1525323 663 1525 or go online to The Fountain Theatre. The two story building, which houses the theatre, is located at Fountain and Normandie.


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Among our unkept New Year's Resolutions every year is one to make more of the city in which we live – to go to more plays, concerts, shows etc., to visit places we have never been, to experience things we haven't experienced.
After all, there are plenty of things not to like about London, but you could never complain there is a lack of things going on.
However, this resolution never normally survives our first outing – a couple of years ago we took a couple of friends to Sadler's Wells to a ballet of Hamlet transported to Nazi Germany and they retaliated the next year with a Chinese piano recital.
But this year it looks as if our early-year cultural enthusiasm will last at least into March because we went to see a play last night and enjoyed ourselves so much that I'm already scanning the pages of Time Out for our next outing.
The play in question was Becky Shaw, an off-Broadway hit that is playing at the Almeida in Islington until March 5th.
It has something of the American sit-com about it – the situation being that a married couple arrange a blind date that goes so disastrously wrong that it pretty well finishes off their marriage, the com being that it is genuinely very funny.
I am an inveterate match-maker myself, but thankfully still a married one, probably because I have never tried to pair off a super-cynical half-brother my husband doesn't know I've slept with and a neurotic work colleague of my spouse!
I don't know how many tickets there are left – we got the cheapest 'restricted view' tickets in the house last night because they were all that was left, but it certainly didn't stop us from enjoying the performance immensely.
I just hope we can say the same for the Tibetan choral music…
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I am a house
I am a house.
This is what I said to him while rounding the street corner, trudging up the sidewalk on a day that by 10 a.m. was pushing one hundred degrees, our clothes and mean-looking squints sticking to our skin.
I had spotted it up the hill, its peachy countenance and clean white trim. The little house encased by a gleaming, half-height black fence. We felt we knew it. And we were pulled by some ineffable force. The longer we stared in admiration at it, the more it looked unreal.
(The familiar slowly becoming unfamiliar, which is the very definition of uncanny.)
Or, no, I retract that. It happens more suddenly. A quick zap! -- and you are abruptly, (perhaps too) keenly aware that you are, in fact, standing in a neighborhood in which you do not live, staring at a house you do not own, or even know who owns.
(And you may ask yourself...well...how did I get here?)
Ah, that you were so blithely cool about this reality before you were zapped by it. But now you are writing about this, aggrandizing the obsession, which is possibly -- or absolutely -- the story's stranger halve.
(You remember that your father always corrected you -- you didn't get the larger half, you got the larger portion. You always wonder what portion of stories, having been made up, decides the line between a story which is true and untrue? Did she see the bird fall from the sky like that? Does it matter?)
But, it has reminded you of something -- or stirred up the memory of some yet unlived dream (which is closer to nostalgia than remembering), and it makes you feel something you haven't felt in a very long, long time. And you are, after all, hand-in-hand with the one you love. And: Is a tandem daydream more or less acceptable than one conjured in solitude?
Together, you start to imagine the Life Interior. (And the Life Imagined is always idyllic.) Washing dishes, hanging clothes out to dry, sweeping dead leaves from the stairs, a pile of mail growing by the front door. You extrapolate your idea of the inside from what you see on the outside. It is a nasty habit.
Passersby would see the two of you, the girl in the red dress and the boy in plaid, pointing at its various features -- the little window, the oval in the door, the tin mailbox, the lamp, the curtained awning -- would maybe call it leering. And are you? You don't want to admit it -- but you wouldn't do this if the owner were sitting on the steps, after all.
But paying a thing some attention, some admiration -- you would rather live your life this way, have your motives be suspect, than to otherwise march on with your head down, never to take in, always to push out with your small, flat feet heading one way, unhindered by life.
And you are no middle-distance runner, but either a sprinter or a meanderer -- vacillating always between extremes. And so sometimes you will say things -- I am a house -- because your admiration can't approximate its beauty, your long-windedness only distracts. But for what it's worth, this statement, which is both entirely false, and entirely true, and also neither -- I am a house -- at this moment (in spite of its trueness and untruness and neitherness) is, exactly right.
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Don't ever stop writing in this way. You are taking me to places far and beyond the limits of my mind, and it is a beautiful place. I hope to stay for a while.ReplyDelete
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I don't know why, but it hit me a few days ago that I'm going to right in the middle of finding my new normal with the baby when holiday season rolls around. I'm all about baked goods during the holidays so I immediately knew I had to have a freezer cooking session so that I'll be able to enjoy some goodies without being pressured to make them.
So, my fingers started walking (with my stomach not far behind) and I made a list of baked goodies to make and freeze. For the most part, I already had the ingredients on-hand and only had to pick up a few extras at the grocery store. Woot!
My Freezer Cooking Recipes
- 2 batches of Homemade Chicken Pot Pie (one went in the freezer and we had the other for dinner)
- 2 batches of Grandma's Pumpkin Roll with Cream Cheese Filling
- 2 batches of Chocolate Pudding Pie
- 1 batch of Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bread (this recipe made one loaf and 12 muffins)
- 1 batch of Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars (I just used the recipe on the back of the bag)
Even though my kitchen was in a bit of disarray for a few hours, I think I came up with a pretty good system. The key to freezer cooking is to be organized. Choose your recipes, make sure you have all necessary ingredients and, most of all, have fun with it! It's a lot of work, but it's definitely rewarding!
My Freezer Cooking Plan
- Set the pie crusts and cream cheese out ahead of time to thaw/bring to room temperature.
- Bake the pumpkin rolls (they baked at a higher temperature than everything else).
- Prepare the pies and chocolate chip bars (while the pumpkin rolls bake).
- Prepare the pumpkin cream cheese bread (while the pies and bars bake).
- Prepare the cream cheese filling for the pumpkin rolls.
- Make the chicken pot pie filling.
- Fill the pumpkin rolls with the cream cheese filling.
- Place cooled items in freezable containers (I wrapped the pumpkin rolls in wax paper and bread in cling wrap and foil before placing them in their containers) and mark them with the name/date created.
Except for the chicken pot pie, I used my my KitchenAid Stand Mixer (that's my affiliate link), my absolute favorite kitchen appliance, to whip everything together in a jiffy. Yes, I had to wash the bowl multiple times, but it cut down on the amount of dirty dishes I had. I also cleaned as I went so that I wouldn't have a mound of dishes at the end. The pumpkin cream cheese bread was the last item to be finished cooking. By that time, everything was cleaned up and I was ready to rest!
Here's a prime example of why following directions is important. :O) When they say to bake bar cookies in a bar pan, you should probably do it. If not, you'll be like me and have it oozing over the side of your pan and burning in the bottom of the oven.
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I went to R.O.X (BHS) last Saturday to register for the October Running Festival. Unfortunately, the personnel manning the registration won't be available until 5pm. I came in around 4pm. Much to my dismay, I went back home sobbing ... well not exactly
I decided to take Edsa on my way home. I glimpsed on a billboard and was surprised on what I saw. Crocs has a product named ABF which is short for Almost BareFoot. Almost BareFoot? Wow! A flip flops made for me! Isn't that cool?
I guess the barefoot revolution is indeed coming. I am expecting it to roll out by next year *fingers crossed*
What does it look like? Here are some grabbed snaps from Crocs website
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Spelling and grammar errors go against applicantsWe've actually written about "ain't" and its status as a word, but we could never recommend using it in a job application, unless, perhaps, you're fixin' to git a job squashin' cars (not that there's anything wrong with that). Read all about ain't and other words from the red-light district here.
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So my 5 year old daughter comes home from Kindergarten talking about bees. She sees that I am busy making comics so she decides to draw a comic of her own.
At first, I didn't understand what a "proboscis" was so had to look it up (it's the appendage that comes out of the bee's mouth for feeding). Once I learned what it was, I couldn't stop laughing at the genius of this comic. So yes, I am a proud mommy and am a little biased thinking it is genuis. However, I think it's pretty cool that the public school is teaching my kid such interesting things at such a young age. Guest art by my dear Cali Zimmerman, age 5.
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Champagne Larmandier-Bernier is one of the true stars of the Côte des Blancs. Both the Larmandier and Bernier families have had a long history in the Champagne region, dating back to the French revolution, but it was not until the marriage of Philippe Larmandier and Elisabeth Bernier in 1971 that Champagne Larmandier-Bernier was established. The small house today is directed by Pierre and Sophie Larmandier, who own just under fifteen hectares in some of the finest villages on the Côte des Blancs: Cramant, Chouilly, Oger and Avize (all Grand Crus), as well as in the fine premier cru village of Vertus.
Pierre took over the direction of the family estate in 1988, and by 1992 he began to move the family's vineyards over to organics and then to full-blown biodynamic viticulture by 1999. The Larmandiers are very much committed to the ideal of producing world class wines that speak of the inimitable terroirs of the Côte des Blancs, rather than using parlor tricks in the cellar. They thus work extremely hard using biodynamic methods to produce the finest possible fruit in each vintage. Their holdings are comprised of eighty-five percent Chardonnay and fifteen percent Pinot Noir. As their vines near 45 years of age, the Larmandiers practice a much more conservative approach to yields than is currently customary in the Champagne region.
In the cellar, Pierre Larmandier is every bit the purist and uses only indigenous yeasts for alcoholic fermentations, producing the most natural and terroir-specific wine possible. Each cru is vinified separately, using a variety of stainless steel tanks; large, old, wood foudres; enamel-lined tanks; or smaller Burgundian barrels, depending on each cru and each vintage. Many of the wines also undergo malolactic fermentation. Occasionally battonage is practiced as well, but Pierre Larmandier is quick to point out that it is really the vintage that will decide how certain crus will be raised in the cellar.
Blending is generally done in the spring following harvest, and it is at this time that the Larmandiers decide whether or not their two single-vineyard bottlings (Terre de Vertus and Vieilles Vignes de Cramant) will be produced. The final blends are made and the wines bottled in May, and undergo secondary fermentation in the deep, cold cellars of Larmandier-Bernier. The wines are aged for several years prior to hand-riddling and disgorgement, and are then held a minimum of six months before being released into the market.
An important belief of Pierre Larmandier's is that the underlying terroir is expressed best with very minimal levels of dosage, or—in the case of Terre de Vertus—no dosage at all. Consequently, all of the Larmandier-Bernier wines never receive more than four grams per liter of sugar (versus others Brut bottlings that can go up to twelve grams per liter). This puts Larmandier-Bernier's Brut Champagnes in the category of Extra Brut. In a world of Champagne that has witnessed sweetness levels rise in the last couple of decades, the Larmandier-Bernier wines stand out for their textural purity and their underlying energy derived from their minerality. They emerge from the cellar with picture-perfect balance, drinking well right out of the gate, while possessing all of the inherent precision to age gracefully for decades.
Champagne Larmandier-Bernier's lineup includes blended bottlings from their superb Côtes des Blancs holdings and single vineyard bottlings as well. The lineup includes:
Latitude Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut NV - previously known as "Tradition", a name that was chosen in the 1970's by Pierre's parents. The new name Latitude was selected since the wine is composed exclusively of Chardonnays originating from the same latitude: south of Vertus, an area historically planted to Pinot Noir. This is a generous terroir with a deep topsoil, resulting in a round, rich, Pinot-y style (despite it being 100% Chardonnay) coupled with the characteristic pureness of the Estate's Champagnes. The base wine makes up approximately 70% of the blend and is fermented in stainless steel tanks, while the remaining 30% is reserve wine aged in a combination of large, old oak foudres and neutral Burgundian barrels.
Longitude Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 1er Cru NV - This non-vintage cuvee known as Longitude replaces the wine previously referred to as Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 1er Cru. The names references the fact that the vineyards form a line close to the 4th meridian. Longitude is also an allusion to the length and the very pure, frank and mineral style of these great terroirs, where the chalk is very close to the surface. The base wine makes up approximately 60% of the blend and is fermented in stainless steel tanks, while the remaining 40% is reserve wine aged in a combination of large, old oak foudres and neutral Burgundian barrels.
Terre de Vertus Bl. de Blancs Non Dose 1er Cru - The non-dosage vintage bottling of Terre de Vertus is always a vintage-dated bottling and is produced from two top vineyards in the village of Vertus: Les Barillers and Les Faucherets, which are located in the heart of the Vertus vignoble, mid-slope on the rolling hills of the village. The wine undergoes its alcoholic and malolactic fermentations in old oak casks, rather than stainless steel, and is generally aged a minimum of four years in the cellar prior to disgorgement and release. It is universally considered one of the most profound non-dosage bottlings produced in all of Champagne and ages brilliantly.
Vielle Vigne de Levant Extra Brut GC - The Vieilles Vignes de Cramant Extra Brut is a vintage cuvee produced from the oldest Grand Cru vines in the village of Cramant- ranging from fifty to eighty year-old vines. Like the Terre de Vertus, it is a single vintage cuvée fermented in oak, rather than stainless steel, though in this case, it is a combination of large foudres and smaller Burgundy barrels that are used. The wine receives a very low dosage of two grams per liter prior to release.
Les Chemins d'Avize Extra Brut 1er Cru - This vintage cuvee was a long time coming! Pierre knew for many years that his Avize vineyards were unique expressions of the village and merited a terroir cuvee like those of Vertus and Cremant. Historically, the vineyards of Chemin de Plivot and Chemin de Flavigny contributed to the Longitude cuvée, but in 2009 Pierre and SOphie purchased a smaller press to allow them to vinify the juice from these parcels separately. It is fermented in small Austrian oak barrels and receives only 2 grams of dosage.
Rose de Saignee Extra Brut 1er Cru - A singular, Rose de Saignée Extra Brut is a vintage cuvee made solely from the oldest Pinot Noir vines planted in the village of Vertus. The grapes are crushed and the juice macerates on the skins for two or three days to give the wine its lovely color (rather than fermented as a white wine and then blended with a bit of red still wine further on down the road to make a Rosé). The rosé is fermented in enamel-lined stainless steel tanks and finished with an extremely delicate dosage of three grams per liter. This is a Champagne Rosé meant for the table with a deep, penetrating style that stands up to savory meat dishes.
All in all, the wines from Larmandier-Bernier are reference point Champagnes that fully demonstrate the profound potential of low dosage and non-dosé bottlings that revel in their beautiful expressions of terroir, impeccable balance and clean, zesty and very pure palate impressions.
Click here for a Map of Larmandier-Bernier vineyards.


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She shares decor, designs, recipes, and so much more on her facebook page. I sent Dawn a message to ask if I could introduce her on my Friday favorites and show off some of what she posts on her page. Of course she said yes but does want us to know that she does not own any of the pictures or recipes that she post. She finds the pictures on the Internet and from other favorite sites.
She actually needs no introduction....her FB page already has 16,033 likes · 58,145 talking about this.
That could have changed already in the last minute!
Thank you Dawn for sharing with us. Google Simply Southern at Heart and check Dawn's page out! Love her daily show cases!
Now here is a few things for my Friday Favorites from Dawn's Simply Southern at Heart....
Looks like Fall..........
Brilliant idea. For a pretty design for your rolled out cookies use the bottom of a pretty glass with a design! NOW WHY DIDN'T I THING OF THAT!!!
Sweet Idea...
All the ideas using simple jars amaze me.
Another jar idea....
This is so stinking cute!
Oh my! Do I ever
This cracked me up!
Be sure to visit Dawn on FB... Such a sweet gal.
Hey, by the way..do you want to make new friends on the blog? Go over and visit my friend Debbie over at http://www.jeremiah-2911.com
She has a linky going on and you can link up your blog and visit other blogs!She is need of Labor Day Ideas of "what to do and where to go"....Speaking of Labor Day Plans....what do you plan to do? We'll be celebrating with the kids and grandkids. Pool party and hamburger cookout!
Hope you've enjoyed our Friday Favorites today!
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Friday, December 26, 2008
I feel the rhythm,
or is it your heart beating
sweet touch of an angel
gentle waltz of your breaths on my skin
its the breeze that made me shiver
or was it the fear in my heart?
I close my eyes, lean on you
wait for you to pull me close
wait for the warmth of your arms
bloody battles, I fought for you
let my armour drop
under the silver moon,
there is nothing to hide me – to protect
the clock strikes midnight, and I feel you
pushing me away, ever so gently
I fight. harder this time –
for I am fighting you – for you
"Its time for you to go" you said
and the dream is ripped at the seam
still, I want you to see
before the cold freezes me
I was never meant to be safe
my soul was your twin flame -
the peace was never for me
you are my unfinished sonnet
waiting forever
knocking at the door you closed
never leaving – fearing your pain,
if you ever,
decide to return
but my heart is dying now
and my soul is lost
in the sea of oblivion
Now that I am fading away
my heart, still yearns for you
I had in your arms-
Life, Death and the Judgment Day
its the final midnight
the darkness pulls me
the glass slipper doesnt fit anymore, my love
this Cinderella was never meant to be
© 2008 by Chhaya. All rights reserved
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I Think I Would Rather Go In Cold Rather Than Warm-Up In This Bullpen
Posted by Steve L. on July 29th, 2011 · Comments (2)
Wall to wall Paul Williams. That's ugly.
Wall to wall Paul Williams. That's ugly.
Not the Paul Williams I had in mind…
LOL – Yeah I was thinking the Paul Williams that Felix Unger's daughter ran away from home to follow around on The Odd Couple.
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