Author Archives: cordelectatio

Haste Makes Waste

Posted on 2012/08/26 by cordelectatio

RECIPE FOLLOWS Slow and sure wins the race.  The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.  These sayings roll by on the ticker tape of my brain as I process the events of the day.  These events revolved around a … Continue reading →

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Pickles and Jams

Posted on 2012/08/22 by cordelectatio

Why is it that my thinking is drawn to food? It is my experience that sometimes a gift can become a curse of sorts, if not properly tended.  When misappropriated we can find ourselves in all manner of Pickles and … Continue reading →

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Peeezza! Pizza!

Posted on 2012/08/19 by cordelectatio

Oh, I cannot say Pizza without remembering a very dear young woman.  She is a mama herself now and thankfully re-connected with me via Facebook.  We lived in the same apartment building for a time and she was the perfect … Continue reading →

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Floating on the Clouds

Posted on 2012/08/17 by cordelectatio

There in the vast fathomless summer sea it felt just like I was floating on the clouds.  Any scuba divers reading this?  Then you can relate to that sensation of floating on the currents in the open seas. Don’t get … Continue reading →

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Should’ves and Could’ves

Posted on 2012/08/14 by cordelectatio

Possibly the shortest post this wordy, spaghetti brain will ever post. A date that should’ve/could’ve been spent revelling in a 30 year milestone, instead is spent mourning the painful losses that come when one refuses to choose recovery but continues … Continue reading →

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The Road is Lonnggg

Posted on 2012/08/07 by cordelectatio

The Road is Long, with many a winding turn…the words from the song “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” come to mind.  Sometimes it’s a long road home.  Most times we must travel for a season, or two, or three … Continue reading →

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W-O-W!

Posted on 2012/08/05 by cordelectatio

How many words can be attached to this acronym? As I was riding, yet once again up the interstate,  the usual thoughts and ponderings jostling around my cranial cavity, this acronym paused before my conscious awareness as it paraded by … Continue reading →

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Really…more lemons? no, not that title. Screaming Banshee, not that one either. Rolling with the Punches! yes

Posted on 2012/07/27 by cordelectatio

Laying blanketed under the midnight blue sky shot full of stars those are just some of the thoughts that tumbled around my head last night as I could not fall asleep.  Ever stare at a single bright star so long … Continue reading →

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Lemonade in the Rain

Posted on 2012/07/26 by cordelectatio

“Crisis brings us face to face with our inadequacy and our inadequacy in turn leads us to the inexhaustible sufficiency of God.  This is the power of helplessness, a principle written into the fabric of life.”  Catherine Marshall, Beyond Our Selves. … Continue reading →

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Taiwanese Running in America

Posted on 2012/07/15 by cordelectatio

Being a wi-fi nomad and having a busy week teaches me that I need to learn to prepare ahead of time as I have been on the run this week with my regular clients and teaching Cultural Cooking Workshops to … Continue reading →

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