a timeless song for a time worn heart.

despite all the beauty of the planet, it can be a very rough, tough world out there sometimes.

here are some lyrics of a timeless song from a timeless artist. it speaks about the troubles of love, and how we're all searching for something but sometimes it's just out of reach. 

if you're lost, lonely, and searching, i hope this song might comfort you. one two three four, here we go, the song


We are young!

Heartache to heartache we stand

No promises, no demands

Love is a battlefield



We are strong!

No one can tell us we're wrong

Searching our hearts for so long

Both of us knowing


Love is a battlefield

sometimes when you are looking for love and you can't find any, and you're tired and worn out and sad and alone, there is a special type of food that can help. known as comfort food. just like there are many different kinds of love, there are many different types of comfort food, of varying degrees of healthiness. the best ones can involve things like beans, in stews or soups, roast vegetables, pasta, and mushrooms. like a good love, you can eat these a lot (but maybe moderate the pasta). but there are other kinds that are made up mainly of carbohydrates with solt and fat added. this morning was a morning for a comfort food and i must confess i made one of the bad ones. sometimes, like love, a bad comfort food is all you can make. the poet lou reed once said that no kinds of love are better than others. but i don't think this really applies to food. definitely some kinds of food are not good if you eat too much of them. but when you only have these things available sometimes, like with love, you just have to make do.

comfort food.

another view.

some candid shots of me with the food

 

 

i'm sorry. that's all i can do on a day like today.

My Ideal Life

A new post: My Ideal Life: Or: Food, and Friends.


In this busy and pain drenched world, sometimes it's good to pause and reflect on the things that make life what it is. No matter who you ask, the answer will always be the same, the most important things in life, good Food, and good Friends, will always be the answer.

Luckily for me, I have a lot of good Food in my life, and also, I am lucky to share it sometimes with a good Friend.


The other night my friend, who is Asian, sharing my country of birth, came over, and I made sure to offer my hospitality to him. It's important, when you share good Food with a Friend, to do it with friendlike hospitality, so I took great care to make the meal great.

I made roasted potatoes and tossed them with some caramelised capsicum. I cooked some delicious large flat mushrooms with soy sauce and mirin, an Asian ingredient in honour of my friend. I tossed together a salad with cucumber and yoghurht.
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To ensure I was in the spirit of great hospitality, I had everything nearly ready before the Friend arrived. He is a great team player, and he was part of the team for the idea of having good Friends for Food, so he arrived with some delicious beer. We drank a nice beer together and chatted about life. Ups and downs, some reminisching, it's all what you need to do when you share time with a Friend.

Pretty soon we got hungry, so I finished off cooking the Food and presented it to my Friend in great spirit!!

In the spirit of memories, and to share with all of you, my friends, my friend and I took great care to photograph all the Foods, and all the special moments, such as when I presented the Food to my Friend. However, due to a problem with modern technology, the photographs were lost.

It is sad when a problem with technology takes something away from you like the photographs of a great food and friend. But it's important to remember that without the technology you wouldn't have the photographs anyway, and it really does work well most of the time.

The saddest thing is that I now cannot share the one thousand words of those pictures with all of you.

But at least, for myself and my Friend, the memorie of the Food and those moments will always be in our brains.
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My Friend was happy to have such a delicious Food and we were a very great company for each other. We drank all the beer and ate all the Food.

If my ex girlfriend had been there we would have made a delightful little threesome, but even as a twosome, it was a night to remember.

I will remenisce about this night for a long time. It really was what was the best things in life.

So those are some ruminations about my Ideal Life. Everyone always says it's the same thing, Food, and Friends, and I am no different. What's your Ideal Life?


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Incognito, looking at the neighbours Undies on the line. There is a gate in the fence. I wonder if he would notice if I - stealed - them??