Author: brenda

feeding america

Oatmeal, walnuts, sugar

Mother Earth, sunshine, and rain

in my breakfast bowl

Did you know 1 in 6 military and Veteran families experience food insecurity? Many of these families are forced to choose between paying their bills or putting food on the table.

During a research project for a sociology class while an undergraduate at San Diego City College in 1982, I was stunned to learn that many enlisted Navy Families relied on Food Stamps to feed their families. I found myself questioning then and again now the justification for service personnel whose lives are on the line for all of us to be experiencing food insecurity.

I recently learned that Navy Federal Credit Union is partnering with Feeding America to get more meals to those in need in the military community. With a little help from augmented reality (AR), you can join them in their mission to help combat hunger for Veteran and military families

a bit of orange

“Different flowers usually have separate meanings, but, as of often happens, flower-symbolism is broadly characterized by two essentially different considerations: the flower in its essence, and the flower in its shape. By it very nature it is symbolic of transitoriness, of Spring and of beauty…

“…Orange or yellow-colored flowers represent a reinforcement of the basic sun-symbolism …”*

*cited:Trans: Jack Sage: J. E. Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols

Image submitted in response to Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge

sunday morning with akazome emon

I can no longer tell dream from reality.

Into what world shall I awake.

From this bewildering dream? ~Akazome Emon*

Akazome Emon (956-1041) was a member of the great group of women poets, roughly contemporary with Murasaki and the author of the Eiga-Monogatari, the story of the supremacy of the Fujiwara, an unusual type of book for a Japanese woman to write at any time.

*cited: Trans and Edited by K Rexroth and I Atsumi. The Burning Heart Women Poets of Japan.

words of wisdom

“… the wind bids me to leave you.

“Less hasty am I than the wind, yet I must go.

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

“Even while the earth sleeps we travel.

” We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”~Kahlil Gibran*

Paula’s Lost in Translation: Words of Wisdom

*cited: Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. (Alfred A Knopf 1973)