Month: January 2024
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Chocolate Cake
Chocolate cake is a staple dessert – rich, dark, and decadent. Some folks prefer milk chocolate, but if one truly loves chocolate, one wants it dark. It’s akin to the idea that if you eat your steak well-done, you don’t enjoy beef. I personally have my chocolate cake as black as midnight; something like Hershey’s…
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Patching
My grandparents had a sewing machine. It was a treadle machine, which was solely foot-powered: through pedaling your feet back and forth to keep it running. It was so vintage that it could probably sit in a museum now. They had a few pattern booklets, not only for making shirts and pants, but also for…
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Concept Evolution
How we view the world reflects who we are, so that two individuals witnessing the same event or reading the same text may have completely different understandings of it. That one is always evolving means what one hears, sees, and reads is always evolving too. At different stages of life, we are moved by different…
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Ode to the Persimmon
The persimmon is a gorgeous tree – of large, glossy foliage, – of tall, hard wood, and bedecked with orange-hued sweet fruits in globular or teardrop figures. Though not only is it ornamental, this fecund tree also nourishes throughout the cold winter. Revered in East Asia, particularly in Japan, it has inspired much poetry, perhaps…
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