“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.”

— Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Argh, we forgot to plant cucumbers this year! Did you?

I love this recipe — it’s from my friend M.D.

Refrigerator Pickles

7 c. sliced unpeeled cucumbers
1 c. thinly sliced onion
1 c. thinly sliced green peppers
1 t. salt
1 t. celery seed
1 c. vinegar
2 c. sugar

Mix vegetables, salt & celery seed. Mix vinegar and sugar and pour over vegetables. Mix well. Store in refrigerator 1 day,
tossing the vegetables occasionally.

Store in jars. (They stay crisp!)

Keeps in refrigerator approximately 1 year, after which pickles will lose quality.

Happy bumper crop!

Two from Katharine Hepburn:

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.”

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”

“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could;
Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a
spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

I love you for a lot of reasons, My Blog and BlogWorld.

1. I just found out that my auntie (my husband’s aunt) from Pittsburgh, Pa., and some of the women at her office read my blog! Hi Ladies (and Gents?) of Allegheny County! Leave me a comment. You can make up names (I did!), I don’t care. I am comment lover. (Me, as a child: “I’m dancing! Look at me! I’m siiiiiiiiiiinging, la la la…”) I am glad you’re here. (more…)

“I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. ‘The first thing,’ I said, ‘is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'”

— Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)

I’ll have a new post up soon (sometime this morning, I’m hoping) at Grasshopper! Please leave me a comment if you stop by!

(Edited to say: It’s up!)

xxox

wm

Excerpted interview with author Sherman Alexie, from 1/5/97 issue of the New York Times Magazine:

Q: True, but you’re clearly angry, especially at whites who try to “connect” by immersing themselves in Indian culture. How would you have whites treat modern Indians?

A: No. 1, recognize that we are sovereign entities, with absolute political, social and economic rights on our land. No. 2, that’s all I care about. Other than that, leave our culture alone.

“I opened the drawer of my little desk and a single letter fell out, a letter from my mother, written in pencil, one of her last, with unfinished words and an implicit sense of her departure. It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window… or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed… or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.”

— Letters From Colette

“There are three things in life that are fun to watch: a rippling stream, a fire in the fireplace and a Zamboni going around and around.'”

— Charlie Brown