Families of Abraham

I was 19 years old, living briefly in Jerusalem a year after the Yom Kippur War (otherwise called the 1973 Arab-Israeli War), when I was first introduced to "Father Ibrahim" by my Palestinian Christian and Muslim neighbors. My Jewish professor also spoke of "Father Abraham" and I realized the different paths we've taken away from God have taken us away from each other. Instead of obeying God's law to love, we find ways to be separate and at war.

Can you say it in ONE word?

USING ONLY ONE WORD -- It's not as easy as you might think -- copy and change my answers to suit you. You may find some questions difficult to answer with only one word.
If you're willing, please leave YOUR ANSWERS in COMMENTS.

1. Where is your cell phone? purse

2. Your significant other? Rich

3. Your hair? thick

4. Your mother? gregarious

5. Your father? intense

6. Your favorite? harmony

7. Your dream last night? forgotten

8. Your favorite drink? lemonade

9. Your dream/goal? health

10. What room you are in? computer

11. Your hobby? gardening

12. Your fear? death

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? mountaintop

14. Where were you last night? home

15. Something that you are not? efficient

16. Muffins? poppy

17. Wish list item? retreat

18. Where you grew up? Colorado

19. Last thing you did? friends

20. What are you wearing? jammies

21. Your TV? overused

22. Your pets? cats

23. Friends? enduring

24. Your life? incomplete

25. Your mood? contemplative

26. Missing someone? children

27. Car? reliable

28. Something you're not wearing? makeup

29. Your favorite store? grocery

30. Your favorite color? green

33. When is the last time you laughed? tonight

34. Place you'd like to be right now? bed

We are The Change!

Harvest time

My friend Mindy has a blog (icantbegoodallthetime.blogspot.com) where she posts lovely photos & tales of good food. I was inspired by her as I was steaming the last of my grapes into juice this weekend. They were so vibrantly colorful in my sunny kitchen! My nighttime photography doesn't do their natural beauty justice. The brilliant purple of the concord grapes make them as much a pleasure to look at as to taste. The green "concord" grapes (I have no idea what varieties I'm tending to in my yard) created an opaque juice the color of pear flesh.

It makes me cry to think of all the many years that the birds, the wasps, and I consumed only a few clusters of grapes while the bulk of them just rotted on the vine. I didn't know juicing grapes was so easy (albeit time-consuming). I think a steamer will be my next purchase for the kitchen.

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