moo!

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once a loner, always a loner.
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being on one's own isn't too hard, unless someone points out, how lonely you really must be? 

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and when one doesn't immediately reply, - silence. at that point the speaker's attention is drawn towards the next person's case and one is left alone with one's less than brilliant answer. 

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today three local creative inhabitants are being honoured in their lives' works, by inaugurating the bizar route in their village, suburb to the town i live in. it is a brilliant september sunday, literally. the sun dashes off everything and everyone, the cows are but displaying a hilarious late summer moo, the walk taking us through fields and natural lay-bys, up alleys and through dry mud. exhaustive but immensely satisfying. 

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but so. before the group walk starts, i get asked that question. - on your own, are you? - who's with you, no one? - will you stay for afters? - oh well, okay then. - bye! and off they generically trod. 
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i keep myself to myself, some ten minutes behind said group. on this clear day, i see them proceeding from afar. no fear of getting lost in the wide open fields.

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by the time the walk abates, there seems to be plenty to talk about, on the village square, amongst friends and fiends, in between blaring speakers. 
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and ah well.. thanks, but no thanks. honestly. 
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what i can do, is offer you this, gladly. 
♥

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drawing | mandala

quite unwillingly so, have i designed a dinner plate? the truth is i did not know which direction this drawing was taking me. since, i've been researching the subject and bumped into zentangle, zendoodle and zendala (the links here but a few random examples). i still feel a little reticent on the spiritual side of mandalas, but what a kaleidoscopic stimulus drawing circles, curves, lines and shapes within circles prooves to be. i feel so elated, i can't wait to come and find you all {probably by tomorrow only}. thanks so much for your enthusiast playing, crew: 

stefanie,patrice,rosemary,

barbara,renilde,victoria,

helen,sus,norma,

ariane,céline,olga,

{lynne?},tatjana,jgy,

sabine,mano,carole, 
rachel,greta,...

corner view ≈ horrible {and not}

i will need your imagination on this one, for i did not photograph the event. just last night, i only managed to microwave boil my spuds on the wrong settings. as i pulled my barquette out, i perceived the disaster: like a tupperware bomb imploded over those delicious 'tatoes, now swimming in molten plastic. horrible! 
so, as to go all for zen over sa[i]d misfortune, i offer you a natural intermezzo from just last weekend. probably the last, last summer weekend too. ☻ ps - at special request! the beetroot hummus recipe below!

jane's corner view, francesca's hosting,tanïa's theme. 

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beetroot hummus recipe ☻ whizz up about two sliced knots of beetroot (tossed in a light vinaigrette of olive oil & vinegar, spring onion, pepper, salt and a good sprinkle of ground cumin) with two heaped table spoons of {black} beans and one table spoon of tahini paste; next add a tea spoon of mustard and two heaped table spoons of thick yoghurt. splash this mixture with the juice of half a lemon and run it through the processor until satisfied with consistency. in this way obtaining a slightly runnier version to its classic chickpea brother, it holds far less digestive issues (as the classic pea one may do). bon appétit!

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today's toast

rice dolmades, beet root hummus and sour dough bread
recipe

drawing challenge NEW THEME : mandala

good old spirograph, what else? 

how about a mandala, honey, an old acquaintance used to ask of me, if or when i started to talk gibberish. i hated mandalas for that reason, because i love talking gibberish. so i thought it could be interesting to do something with a mandala theme, and why not draw a-one, or whatever whichever? it is a mediation exercise, of that i am convinced, and it soothes the soul in all the right places too. but i also still LOVE gibberish, so's you all know! feel like giving it a try? there's no end to what a mandala is, can be, or even wants to be. i'm curious! leave your name here, we post the weekend of september 29 & 30. i think we will be in for a real treat...  

remember kaleidoscopes?

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courtesy allows me to enlighten a little on the mandala? the {sanskrit word for} circle symbolises the universe. 
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concentric diagrams within a mandala often hold significance in buddhism and hinduism, but since we're not fussy (i know i'm not), we can add whatever we like to our circles, i don't think buddha will mind either.
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used in spiritual exercises for the purpose of concentration, i can't say what the actual effect would be, since i have not tried it. i don't think i will either, i believe the exercise is very much in the creation: turn inwards... and play. why, yes! that is concentrating. ☻
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sooooooo.... will play ☺ : stefanie, patrice, {rosemary}, barbara, renilde, victoria, helen, sus, norma, ariane, céline, olga, {lynne?}, tatjana, jgy, sabine, ¿mano?, ...