equinox ode

today i am absolutely flying in the face of convention: i put winter AND summer squashes together for a soup. i needed a soup today. obviously its fall. but did you know you could include the skin of a butternut squash in the soup? you can. i know its not done much but i learned it from wendy esko i think, you just throw it all in there, and it softens up nicely. i even didnt bother to take the seeds out of the little bell at the bottom, just left em in. green and yellow summers and a mess of rosemary from the bush outside. its just the right sort of day for it.



i hear from artists a lot that they are worried about copyright and ownership and whatnot. i understand wanting to have whats yours be yours, but ive never met an artist who was happy about nobody being able to experience their art, to give it away. i see incredibly gifted people sitting on a pile of amazing work that theyre afraid to share or put out because someone might steal it, or take it for free, or whatever. and so the amazing art just sits there, rotting and making them ill. it is very bad for the health not to do what some native american indians call a give-away; its a ritual central to right living, good community, artisanship.

ps  at the very end i tossed in even more rosemary, a curry blend, a huge amount of olive oil and celery and pepper. i think its a stew now. too bad theres no baguette on hand to have with it. ;)