Brrr Cold Outside, but will that stop us from bloggin? Happy Mother's Day

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

What a glorious day to celebrate.
The orange sun rises behind Charley's house
lighting up the neighborhood and my house,
the yellow house you bought me thirty-one
years ago.

Over the years
which ebb and flow like the
spirited Atlantic
my hair's turned white and my kidney scooped
out and replaced by one from my daughter Sarah.
A small miracle, unlike the resurrection of
Christ.

Walking around the garden, a cup of
peppermint tea in hand, I hover
over the red poppies, soon to awaken
with their brilliant black button eyes and
tiny dancers sashaying round and round.

The majesty of the garden overflows
with joy at the coming of spring.
Mom, do you see the orange and black
honeybees?

Their mission is assured.
Food production. Honey, sweet enough
for our Sedars here in our home
in a verdant green valley of Pennsylvania.

See the clear water in the bird bath
shimmer? The black crow bathes there
cawing Keep away, away, away!

These are the days of the pandemic
innocent people die, as if they
were gassed in The Fuhrer's ovens.

The only ovens we know are the ones
where you bake your chocolate chip cookies,
brownies and layered lemon cake with
white icing, specially for my son
Daniel Paul.

You were my mother, but now you are gone.
Where do the dead go?
Where in God's name do they go?
When Daddy died he was lifted up
by a giant forklift and disappeared
for ever.

You donated your body to science,
What a collection of bodies sailing
like cruise ships and banging
onto the edge of the universe.

Glowing forever.

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Woke up in the middle of the night and started my short story for today's Beehive.

I'd discussed it briefly with Scott, who said, "All those stories in one?"

It's called I HATE BEING MARRIED.

Twas certainly true with my one and only marriage.

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Am trying to finish all the rye bread from Ben n Irv's. Once it's refrig'd, it's awful. So scuse me for eating peanut butter on rye.

Am also drinking Harney and Sons Spiced Tea. Why? Was listening to the food gurus last night and they said, Drink Tea.

From Time magazine:  Put down those saucer cups and get chugging — tea is officially awesome for your health. But before loading up on Red Zinger, make sure that your “tea” is actually tea. Real tea is derived from a particular plant (Camellia sinensis) and includes only four varieties: green, black, white, and oolong. Anything else (like herbal “tea”) is an infusion of a different plant and isn’t technically tea.

But what real tea lacks in variety, it makes up for with some serious health benefits. Researchers attribute tea’s health properties to polyphenols (a type of antioxidant) and phytochemicals. Though most studies have focused on the better-known green and black teas, white and oolong also bring benefits to the table. Read on to find out why coffee’s little cousin rocks your health.

1. Tea can boost exercise endurance. Scientists have found that the catechins (antioxidants) in green tea extract increase the body’s ability to burn fat as fuel, which accounts for improved muscle endurance.
2. Drinking tea could help reduce the risk of heart attack. Tea might also help protect against cardiovascular and degenerative diseases.
3. The antioxidants in tea might help protect against a boatload of cancers, including breast, colon, colorectal, skin, lung, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, ovarian, prostate and oral cancers. But don’t rely solely on tea to keep a healthy body — tea is not a miracle cure, after all. While more studies than not suggest that tea has cancer-fighting benefits, the current research is mixed.
4. Tea helps fight free radicals. Tea is high in oxygen radical absorbance capacity (“ORAC” to its friends), which is a fancy way of saying that it helps destroy free radicals (which can damage DNA) in the body. While our bodies are designed to fight free radicals on their own, they’re not 100 percent effective — and since damage from these radical oxygen ninjas has been linked to cancer, heart disease and neurological degeneration, we’ll take all the help we can get.
5. Tea is hydrating to the body (even despite the caffeine!).

OK, next blog, s'ils vous plait!!!