It's World Food Day…
A day to think about what we eat and about those who don't have enough food.
Think about that "food" you eat.
There is something we can all do about this..
We can eat better ourselves……
AND
We can be social entrepreneurs and help the world's malnourished children!
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Even though I try to stay on task with my projects [and blogging] – I just never seem to be able to do so for a long period of time.
My brain finds such other interesting things to ponder, think of 
writing about, and/or designing a new project about!
Some people can enter a maze and plot their way out…their brains find a path and stick to it.
If they hit a dead end, they figure out how to get back to the choice point where they entered the "wrong" path.
Not my brain…My brain frequently goes into those alleged dead ends…and when it is there – instead of finding it's way out – it says
"WOW" Look at all the interesting things to do in THIS dead end."
I’ve seen airplanes since I was born as we lived not far from Idlewild Airport.
And yes I know it has a new name but it was Idlewild when I left NYC so for me it will always mentally be Idlewild.
I’ve also seen lots of ducks too in my lifetime.
BUT – each time I drive past Portland’s airport [which is every time I make trip to Costco] I see planes landing and taking off – and I’m pretty close to them.
I also see planes in the sky as my house seems to be right under some flight paths.
Yet – given all my visual knowledge – and having been in many airplanes that have taken off and landed –
When I was a teen, we used to get to a grassy area near Idlewild and lie there and watch planes take off and land. They were literally not far over our heads.
I see cars parked near the airport here with people standing watching the planes take off and land and I think they feel like I did as a kid.
It’s a wonderment..
Ducks! Airplanes!
They all seemingly defy gravity and continue to amaze me!
My cat loves boats and I was trying to capture an image of him looking at me from my neighbor's boat.
But something or someone was more interesting and he moved so fast the camera caught this shot and I got the idea for this image.
I'm still slow at creating images [it's easier to pen words] but I AM getting speedier and I do love making these!
According to Shakespeare’s Juliet:
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Most of us don’t think we’d “smell as sweet” with a different name – well – except that when women get married, some do change their name and of course many people do change their first, middle and/or last names for something they deem “sweeter.”
I do, though, think most people develop a liking or attachment to the name[s] they were given.
Sometimes we prefer our middle names to our given ones, but there are those who were never given a middle name or an “official” middle name.
As one Facebook friend, Melissa Galt, said in response to a post about figuring out your yogi name: “I never bemoaned not having a middle name until now. Raja Discovery is just not me!”
Does not having a middle name make a difference to you? Would you add one to feel something is more “you?” Even if the something is a better yogi name?
What IS your feeling about your name or names?
Would you change it? Add to it? Subtract from it?
On a personal note – and why Melissa’s comment hit home and got me to write this – I was raised to think I had a middle name. As a kid, I used that initial on everything – including my then teenage application for a Social Security Card so I could work.
Imagine my surprise then when, as an adult, I got a copy of my official birth certificate.
NO. MIDDLE. NAME.
Abruptly, I stopped using the initial. It was not part of my legal name -and it is less writing when you have to fill out forms or sign something….
But…and it’s a huge but…. “the” initial is on my Medicare and Social Security accounts and a few other non-governmental cards like my one from REI.
I’ve thought of going back and letting the powers-that-be know about the lack of that middle initial – but dealing with bureaucracy and filling out forms is not how I wish to spend my time…so I still have the initial as part of my “official government ID” and am glad I don’t live in a state that would not let me vote or drive due to this potential alleged identity issue.
And if I ever have to make the change? I’ll do it then……
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I hang out on Facebook and a friend had posted some photos of a pretty breakfast dish of eggs coked in peppers….so I decided to try it…
Glad I did.
The pepper I used was a long narrow red one and next time I'd use a shorter rounder one so there would be more surface….
Wouldn't taste any different but I think it would look prettier.
I roasted the pepper first and also added Feta cheese as I love it…then just before eating, I added some nasturtium leaves and a flower because I love the taste of these too.