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over here posted on may 3 2013 by dearrosie spring is the time when blossoms tulips and daffodils fill our gardens how do you define summer you wear a tee shirt and shorts sweat drips down your back after a walk to the corner your swim suit and towel are always wet you have to switch on the ac in your car you buy iced lattes at starbucks picnics peaches and cherries at your local farmer s market i think it s all the above what do you think you may be interested to learn that i was able to answer in the affirmative for all the above items this week it was 85 degrees today so i went swimming and after seeing the bounty at our local farmer s market last sunday i feel i can say summer has arrived in southern california come let me show you the farmer s market studio city farmer s market sunday april 28 i bought a bunch of sweet peas at the market their scent takes me right back to my childhood home where they grew on the verandah wall each spring and the fragrance from multiple arrangements of freshly cut sweet peas and roses filled the house sweet peas roses i don t get excited to see apples or pears in the fall do you but i can act like a kid when i see the first peaches and plums cherries and apricots strawberries and citrus don t make my heart sing citrus strawberries cherries and peaches do cherries peaches three kinds of asparagus a large variety of squash and squash blossoms asparagus squash blossoms variety of squash if you ve never eaten dandelions this is an excellent time of year to try them they are rich in vitamins and minerals their bitter flavor stimulates digestive function from the stomach down to the intestines including stimulating bile production in the liver click here for a great recipe of dandelions and shiitake mushrooms dandelions sorry i don t know what this is we bought eggs from the happiest chickens in town and tried a bottle of rebecca smith s cold brew coffee in the cold brew process we grind the beans soak them in water for 18 24 hours then filter out the beans to get the coffee concentrate to prepare mix 1 part coffee to 2 parts milk add some ice and voilà a cup of iced coffee that s not bad i ve had some every afternoon this week we bought these eggs rebecca smith holding her cold brew coffee http www secretsquirrelcoldbrew com at the studio city farmer s market kids ride a merry go round pulled by real ponies and last weekend snow white popped in children get to ride real ponies on the merry go round snow white i took all the photos last sunday note it s not just hot its dry and unfortunately there s a serious fire burning just north of the city the springs fire which started thursday around 6 30 a m has scorched more than 18 000 acres between pacific coast highway and the 101 freeway winds continue to push the flames southwest when single digit humidity temperatures in the high 90s and wind gusts of more than 40 mph fed the fire that consumed dry old brush that hasn t burned in over 20 years posted in america tutto va bene tagged dandelion greens farmer s market 63 comments 11 11 posted on may 1 2013 by dearrosie a few months ago my blogging buddy georgette at georgette sullins s blog tagged me with a blogging challenge which came with a set of rules 1 post these rules 2 post a photo of yourself and eleven random facts about you 3 answer the questions given to you in the tagger s post 4 create eleven new questions and tag new people to answer them 5 go to their blog twitter and let them know they have been tagged yours truly in anza borrego desert state park march 2013 photo credit mr f i don t think anyone is interested to know my favorite meal of the day or which state i d like to visit though i hope you share my enthusiasm that new zealand and france have both recently legalized gay marriage while the united states supreme court is still dithering anyway as it s my derriere that sits in the editor s chair over here at wondering rose this is one place i don t have to follow any rules i m free to interpret the challenge any way i like firstly i always see the number 11 11 on digital clocks i hear your what s the big deal in a twenty four hour clock numbers will come round twice each day true but when you see the same time consistently you begin to wonder what it means and you d also ask why don t i see 12 12 or 3 33 or 5 55 an internet search led me to a site called maya 2012 with an explanation that i m not alone there s a global phenomenon perplexing people of all ages who see 11 11 on a daily basis it s not as though you are constantly waiting for this magical number to appear it just does 11 11 signifies your spiritual awakening as this number seems to be predominantly noticed by those who have begun their spiritual journeys at the corner of ventura and beverly glen in l a it took a long time to wake me up and get my attention i m now ready to receive my truth i wonder how many of you also see repetitive numbers she loved her wallet for the second part of this challenge eleven observations from my museum cash register with my sincere thanks to the hundreds of people i ve had the pleasure of meeting each day for the past twelve years 1 photo i d s very few people look like the person in their driver s license photo a negligible number of women have the same hair style or hair color and sometimes you can see the same smile or freckles though it could be their sibling 2 tax en plus monsieur foreign tourists always think i m stealing and get angry when i include tax in the total why are you asking 3 when the price says 2 75 they demand in the united states and canada tax is added at the end everywhere else in the world it s included in the price 3 where do you keep your money don t assume folks keep their bills neatly folded in their wallets like the woman above you d be amazed how many women simply chuck their money into their purses and tell me i know it s in there somewhere most children visiting the museum with a school group pay with wads of crumpled wet sticky money yuk asia and dani are from los angeles 4 fashion can you explain why someone would walk around with this written on his tee shirt my parents said i could be anything so i became an asshole 5 culture man to a teenage boy as they walked into the gallery you re gonna go in there and get some culture god dammit vermeer s woman reading a letter 1662 on loan from the rijks museum in amsterdam 6 are these paintings real i ve been asked that more than once i d love to say the originals are in my house and the museum hangs up fakes the screaming scream 7 people forget the cashier is human oh god this thing would drive me nuts if i had it in my home said the middle aged woman to her friend and she pressed the screaming scream three times i agree with her i think it sounds like a dentist s drill thankfully her friend didn t need to press it too 8 questions do you work here can i ask you a question a little old lady asked me last time i was in jerusalem i went on a walking tour and we saw two cemeteries could you explain the difference to me 9 plastic bags a man from san francisco told me this story i was in hermes recently the woman in the line ahead of me spent about 10 000 on her purchases but refused to pay the extra ten cents for a plastic bag 10 i met these girls at my cash register this year a three year old called tiger lilly a twelve year old called genesis an eleven year old called malaya a teenager called carnina it was supposed to be carina but my mother made a spelling mistake when she filled out the form 11 food a woman from wisconsin told me if you buy cheese curds from wisconsin they must be squeaky or they aren t fresh and you must eat them warm according to the rules i must now tag someone by a lovely coincidence frizztext s a z challenge this week is tagged r r is for me rosie in my happy place with thanks to georgette posted in museum musings photography tutto va bene wondering tagged 11 11 museum musings tagged r 66 comments my lady is compared to a young tree by vachel lindsay posted on april 28 2013 by dearrosie april is national poetry month i share a poem written by an american poet nicholas vachel lindsay my lady is compared to a young tree by vachel lindsay when i see a young tree in its white beginning with white leaves and white buds barely tipped with green in the april weather in the weeping sunshine then i see my lady my democratic queen standing free and equal with the youngest woodland sapling swaying singing in the wind delicate and white soul so near to blossom fragile strong as death a kiss from far off eden a flash of judgment s trumpet april s breath vachel lindsay was born in illinois in 1879 and died in 1931 the second of six children and the only son his parents wanted him to become a doctor like his father while studying at hiram college in ohio he was trained in oratory a skill for which he would later become known throughout the united states and england lindsay is considered the father of modern singing poetry his style of chanting verses helped keep appreciation for poetry as a spoken art alive in the american midwest one of lindsay s most famous poems the title piece in the congo and other poems has a rhythmic structure based on african american speech rhythms and jazz though lindsay believed jazz was a decadent art form he used it in his poems to faithfully relate the regional lore of the south he recited the poem in a variety of voices ranging from a loud deep bass to a whisper if you re interested to know more about vachel lindsay click here posted in poetry tagged my lady is compared to a young tree national poetry month 41 comments seeds of peace posted on april 26 2013 by dearrosie at a peace walk i attended in los angeles about five years ago is is the responsibility of all people with an aspiration to spiritual perfection to help develop a deep recognition of the value of other faiths the dalai lama professor suwanda hj sugunasir with the dalai lama at the university of toronto photo credit wikimedia commons in 1893 the first formal gathering of representatives from eastern and western spiritual traditions met in chicago at the world s congress of religions one hundred years later the council for a parliament of the world s religions was formed when two monks from the vivekananda vedanta society of chicago suggested organizing a centennial celebration its aim to cultivate harmony among the world s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just peaceful and sustainable world at the first modern cpwr in chicago in 1993 the keynote speaker was the dalai lama in 1999 in cape town south africa 7 000 people from 80 countries heard nelson mandela speak 2004 in barcelona spain 2009 in melbourne australia 2014 will be held in brussels belgium for more information click here photo credit wikimedia commons last weekend i attended the second annual conference of the southern california committee for a parliament of world religions at all saints church in pasadena seeds of peace meditation and the engaged life at the opening ceremony a conch shell was blown like a trumpet in all four directions its got a hauntingly beautiful sound and was followed by tata appolinario chile pixtun a guatemalan mayan elder who recited an indigenous blessing miranda rondeau did the musical invocation she opened the ceremony by blowing on the conch shell indigenous blessing by tata appolinario chile pixtun a guatemalan mayan elder musical invocation by miranda rondeau in the first workshop we had to choose one of these meditations isha kriya meditation labyrinth walk vietnamese cao dai meditation kabbalistic jewish meditation sat nam rasayan vedanta meditation to increase your inner peace vedanta guided meditation on the self mindfulness meditation vipassana support international meditation on cosmic awareness the twelve blessings color science meditation ignation awareness exsmen raja yoga meditation stillpoint christian buddhist meditation international society for krishna consciousness lotus sūtra chanting shumei philosophy and spiritual practice seven pillars journey of wisdom zen meditation meditation on peace from a mayan perspective meditation led by darakshan farber who knew there were so many ways to still the mind i wish i could have taken them all during the lunch break we were entertained by the talented taiko drummers taiko drummers a moment to catch his breath the drumming is done in pairs marianne williamson gave the keynote speech we re living a time of evolving consciousness with humanity ready to apply love as an agent of healing on every wound personal as well as political marianne williamson she s a brilliant speaker who speaks from the heart with no notes after lunch there were social action workshops i met jodie evans one of the co founders of code pink a woman initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end u s funded wars and occupations to challenge militarism globally and to redirect our resources into health care education green jobs and other life affirming activities i loved the sound of this drum that looked like a wok the day ended with a concert of heart healing rumi poems set to transformational music this post is part of wordpress weekly challenge culture posted in photography tutto va bene tagged postaday s ca committee for a parliament of world religions 52 comments older posts search for email subscription enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up rss posts rss comments copyright rosanne freed wandering rose unauthorized use and or duplication of this material without express and written permission from rosanne freed is strictly prohibited excerpts and links may be used provided that full and clear credit is given to rosanne freed and wandering rose with 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