This Just In: I Heart Pom

I LOVE pomegranates! Ok, I've never actually tried a real for real one (and when I went searching I was informed they usually are in the stores closer to fall which is probable ok since I have no clue how you eat one) but I love the flavor and adore the color.

Current Fave Pom things:
• Chapstick (Burts)
• Gum (Orbit ... bless Orbit)
• Hot Tea (got several but the Arizona Green with Pom is excellent)
• Martinis (with Pom Wonderful, lime juice and a lil touch of suga)

It seems that pomegranates are considered "superfruits" so not only are they yummy in flavor and purty in color but they're also rich in antioxidants and other good vitamin-y stuff! And .... in Azerbaijan they make wine with them! I cannot imagine a better use for such a yummy fruit ;) It also seems they are very prominent in a number of different religious traditions.

From Wiki Wiki:
• Jewish tradition teaches that the pomegranate is a symbol for righteousness, because it is said to have 613 seeds which corresponds with the 613 mitzvot or commandments of the Torah.
• In Christianity, the fruit, broken or bursting open, is a symbol of the fullness of His suffering and resurrection.
• The Koran mentions pomegranates twice as examples of good things God creates.

Viva la Pomegranate!

The welkin of the summer sang a color out of dunes

That's the subject line of a recent email from my Brother Ben (BB). For some reason, though we are 6 years apart and didn't even get along until I graduated from high school, BB knows what music sends me sailing. He introduced me to some of my forever favorites ... Indigo Girls, Be Good Tanyas, Sea & Cake.

And now, comes this (and if you haven't heard, you should!) ... Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago. It's the most haunting, beautiful, I-can't-stop-listening-to-it wonderful thing ever (at least until my next great find). If anyone decides to check it out and would like a copy, I'm happy to oblige.



Something I learned from this recording:
In the song "Re: stacks" he opens with "This my excavation and today is Kumran." Kumran I asked? Yes, Kumran ... where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947. I've never read much on this subject but apparently the discovery kind of changed the course of Christianity for many people. Some ignored it; some embraced it; but whatever happened afterward was different than before because of the new information.

Grazie BB, I adore this.

Humpday

I had a relatively unproductive, but incredibly un-dull day today.

A friend recently told me that all the trouble starts when you stop learning stuff ... so, I'm making it part of my blog in a "Things I learned ..." kinda way. Hell, maybe you'll learn something too!

What I learned today:
Girl Down the Hall (GDH) and I took a little stroll downtown. Stopped in at Blue Spiral 1, a gallery I never thought to enter (though everybody who's everybody stops by). I guess I don't often think to saunter through galleries. I'm not an "educated" art admirer ... I know what I like and what I don't like and what I don't get, but I couldn't tell you if a piece achieved any sort of standard. Hell, lots of times I like to just walk up really close and try to figure out how someone had such incredible patience as to paint hundreds (thousands?) of individual leaves on a tree. One tree that's a part of one painting in a room of dozens. Blows my mind.

GDH, however, is a gallery-girl ... likes to paint, used to manage, wants to own kind of lady. And so we walked through these absolutely amazing, unbelievable paintings that looked so real they might as well have been photos. GDH said it's called, trompe l'oeil ... a visual illusion that makes things look 3D when they're 2D. Ran a little wiki wiki on it, read up and now I know! GDH knows art but not Photoshop ... maybe she and I can exchange knowledge.



In other news:
Went to see my back doc today (mom calls her my "voodoo doc") and ran into a youth leader from a friend's church back in our high school days. I remember going to a "lock in" at her house and singing Indigo Girls songs with my friends and staying up too late wondering if I'd ever feel normal. I still remember it like it was yesterday though I guess it was almost 1/2 my life ago or more. That concerns me (scares me), though I guess it's good I do remember some stuff like it just happened.

adieu