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Oreo Bark

What you’ll need. (ingredients)

• 15 Oreo cookies, cut into quarters
• 12 oz semi sweet chocolate
• 6 oz white chocolate

Let’s do this. (instructions)

1. Melt the semi sweet chocolate in a microwave or on low heat in a saucepan. Remove from heat. Add the oreo cookies and stir very gently. Turn out onto a foil lined cookie sheet and spread out with a knife-try to spread out the cookies so they aren’t in a clump but instead a single layer. Make sure to keep it thin so it’s easy to break when cooled.

2. Melt the white chocolate and drizzle on top, filling in the thin spots.

3. Allow candy to cool and harden. When it’s hardened throughout, have fun breaking into bite size pieces to snack on.

Variation…..broken pieces of candy cane would be delectable in this.

The Journey of one

I've heard people say before, that once you hit a certain age. All you seem to do is reflect on life and how little left of it , you may or may not have.  reminising more than you should and trying to accomplish things, in earlier years you could care less about.  I suppose this is true in my case, allthough I'm not so much worried about death, as i am scared of living.  I have a constant fear of losing all my possesions, not saying i have much in the sense of valuables..But just the fact of losing everything. losing memories, losing touch..losing the grasp of what has made me who i am.  Not sure this would make sence to most rational thinking people..But Its just how my brain calculates.


I've been trying to reconnect with certain family members. But i keep striking out in that area... I seriously dont know when its time to give up people.  Thats always been a problem i've had,  Just needing them to stay for purely selfish reasons, or the fact that i fear loss, or just that i think i need them in my life.


Of course family is differant than most situations i've faced lately.  I am only one person on this earth, I cant read minds, I cant make things happen , just cause i want them to be.  I cant make those see who refuse to see.  and I cant make those love, who are unwilling or unable to love.  Will I keep trying?  I dunno, probably.  If you've known me for anything period of time, you know i wear my heart on my sleeve...I may not seem like the most sensitve of people at first...I am almost cripplingly sensitive. I love my siblings beyond words, It kills me to feel like I'm so alone.


I've been painting alot, its helped alot with negative thoughts. Its been a great outlet to just let go and put my feeling in the form of something tangible, outside my mind.


One thing ive been doing since i've hit 30 has been trying to eat healthier.. I have the  goal of becoming Vegetarian by January 2013...Not sure if that one is gonna happen...but ive slowly been setting short term goals, limiting meat from my diet.  And its slowly working, i think. Last night I made Mushroom Burgers. It’s based on something I saw Jamie Oliver do on his cooking show. It involves roasting large mushrooms with a garlic and herb butter spread on the underside. As the butter melts and soaks through the mushrooms into the pan all the flavor spreads through the mushroom. They’re awesome. I’d even go as far to say they’re better than a real burger.


I’m almost half way through the book American Gods and whenever I pause from my reading bouts I can’t help but think Neil Gaiman is simply the most awesome brand of human being. The book so far is so very clever. Gaiman has such a clear writing style, but his words are crafted so well that you don’t find yourself bogged down thinking “oh yes, this is so very Gaiman”. The concept, too is simply marvellous. The man is a genius. This is why I read. <3

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Home

I see the Bible as the quintessential book of stories, filled with wisdom, poetry, the hope of human potential and the consequences of human greed and fear. . I have no idea what God is. To me it’s a word that exceeds all human definition and explanation. To me, God, the Divine, the Universe... is a feeling word. I feel deeply that there is something more than me. Like any piece of literature, there are parts I find comforting, parts I disagree with, and parts that inform me. Recently, I was rereading my meditation journal and I felt comforted when I read the words “I will be found by you”  There, in that moment was the divine tenderly holding me and reminding me that I’m never lost or alone.

It’s easy to forget the unfathomable love and mercy that is the divine within me, and with me throughout my life’s journey. It’s easy to forget that I’m always on my way home no matter how banished and punished and apart I may feel. “Home” is nothing that I have to earn. It’s not that having seen the error of my ways, I’ve received forgiveness for my sinful self. It’s not the luck of the predestination draw. It’s what was always meant to happen. Home is the only reality, veiled as it may be. Home is all there is. God, the Divine, the Universe is Home.

I read those words and feel reassured and deeply grateful for the concept of God I am coming to know. It’s the realization that I was created with everything I need already on the shelf of my inner being.  God is all about teaching not judging.  God loves the student in me and seems to love studying with me. Creation is ever changing and God seems to love watching with surprise as each new moment springs into consciousness. ...There is nothing more joyous and satisfying than a “mutual” AHA shared between the creature and the Creator. But not every AHA is instantaneous. Many are born in the darkness of fear and ignorance, anger and loneliness over a lifetime. In that darkness I can feel so alone, so forgotten. I feel as invisible to the world as the world feels to me. It’s then, when the light of love grows dim and memories blur, that the Divine’s voice fills the void that doubt and fear create. With an act of gentle intimacy, the Divine puts forth its hand and touches my mouth and says to me

“Behold, I have put my words in your mouth, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Breaking down and overthrowing is not “bad.” It is neither a failure of faith nor a lack of values. It is a part of the natural process leading people to plant and pluck up and to build. I have wasted too much life on the impossible task of avoiding the dark. I forgot that seeds receive nourishment under the earth so that they can bloom above it. One cannot happen without the other. Taking root, building the stamina and the intent to push through the depths into the light can be challenging and painful. As bold and blinding as the black may be, as banished and apart as I might feel, that voice has never disappeared. Even when it seemed distant and muted as a whisper, I could always hear “Push”, “Push”, “Push.”

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