The nurse said she had been coming but always found me asleep,& that
it was not the nurse call button repeatedly pressed... It was the
morphine drip button...
double barrel shotgun blast of rock salt- Close range gut shot !!!
That was what it was like with out the morphine! So mixing up the
buttons was fine.
It all began with a binge of vegitarian High protien health food
mock meat...
The high protien health fad seemed worth trying, and Chinatown had
some mock meat with high protien that tasted good , it had melamine
in it. the dictionary said melomine was used to make counters, dinner
plates, and was a food additive increasing protien made from coal
minerals... Thus vegatarian.
Years later after loosing a kidney due to mysterious dark mass my
urologist Doctor/ surgeon said melomine was most likely the cause...
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Aunt June
Aunt June was my destination,shortly after high school graduation ,Mom dropped me off by the Williams Inn, with a tearful good bye,my hitch-hiking journey began.
Having read Jack Kerouac's On the road,& Neil Cassady's The First third..., Hitch-hiking from the village beautiful in the Berkshire hills to La Habra California was exciting.
Non-stop on the interstate , it was easy in the early 70's,almost impossible today, facial profiling would hinder me...
Called Aunt June days latter from a supermarket blocks from her house,what a house! fruit trees,& a big avocado tree in the back yard, she paid the local kids a nickel for each avocado they cleaned out of her yard,saying she's chop the tree down if it wasn't such a good shade tree,the avocados would splatter the house with green if hit with the lawn-mower,could twist your ankle if you stepped on them...
She was working in a aluminum recycling center & brought home cases of Coors light beer that weighed light ,were not totally filled, but went great with the tons of guacamole made from all the avocados ...
She shared her library of Alan Watts, Zen, poetry..., & her Jazz collection,along with the light beers & guacamole it was wonderful.
One of my first Sensei in living.
Week ends we went sailing in her boat Deliverance in Marina Del Ray, or went to practice the Zen art of archery...
How wonderful it would be to leave my trawler ,The Bohemian,on the Hudson river,& hitch-hike to her bedside in California , where she lies with lung cancer,the 40 year old memories will do nicely though , and my Loving thoughts are with her...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Dilly Beans
This is my Mom's adaptation of her Mom's recipe...
stem & pack 2 lbs. small tender green beans
in hot sterilized jars
to each pint add-1/4 tsp red pepper,
1 clove garlic,1 head dill
heat together.
2 cups water
1/4 cup pickling salt( do not use iodized might make pickles soft & dark)
2 cups white vinegar
bring to boil;pour over beans.
seal, makes 4 pints
also used turnips,carrots,cauliflower,zucchini,celery,& cukes in this...
Monday, November 2, 2009

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