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Celebrating the Art of Living in Southern Arizona Hope by Carol st. John MINDHANCE HOLISTIC LEARNING CENTER is an Online Certification program offering 30 credit hour certifications in Holistic Mental Health Coaching, Holistic Grief Coaching, or Professional Mediation. Fully accredited by the AADP www.mindhancelearning.com So, what is hope Is it a little town in Arkansas where Clinton was born I went there this summer and saw the 42nd President’s birthplace. Any one who needs to believe that America really is a land of opportunity for all willing to work hard to make it, should visit Hope. There are few silver spoons in that town. Seeing the modest birthplace of the Clinton boys tells you that it doesn’t take a dynasty like the Bushes or the Rockefellers, the Kennedys or the Roosevelts to make a President. However, the only hope I recognized in Hope was the little family restaurant called The Melon Patch where I ate Ann’s Buttermilk Pie. The restaurant is under the umbrella of a rainbow organization designed to employ and reward those who are challenged in one way or another. I met Ann Woods after I raved about her special dish. She came out of the kitchen with her recipe in her hands and beamed at our praise. She was a big woman with her heart on her sleeve. Our waitress was also a radiant presence and made a point of taking both our orders and satisfaction very seriously. She called my husband Miss and then giggled as she corrected herself. I laughed right along with her. She patted me in friendship and gave me a wink as I left. The little visit there turned out to be as memorable as dinner in the Lodge in Yosemite, only more so. What is hope I see it resting on my canvas every time I begin the adventure of making art. It is the idea of something better coming. Something beyond what I thought possible. What is hope I see it resting on my canvas every time I begin the adventure of making art. It is the idea of something better coming. something beyond what I thought possible. way beyond the kind of hope we have at the front of a marriage. It’s testimony of a real relationship. The Bible says, “Hope is the anchor of the soul.” I once liked that idea so much I named a book after it. But, now, I am not sure I want my soul or anyone else’s tethered or anchored. I would rather that hope stretched like a rainbow over our lives, a nefarious upside down smile, a light hard to nail down, even with a camera -- a spirit light that moves as the clouds do, as we change our perspectives, as the sun finds its way before or after the rain. Hope shines on the toes of new school shoes. It rises with the first shoots in a garden. It sparkles in the face of first love. It rings in church bells and resonates in the voice of a mosque’s muezzin. It is at the start of each race and it is the impetus to try again. It is evident in the activities of a village readying for a new season. It is in the hospitals that try to save us from the inevitable. And, although it is hard to find in the dark, it survives even the worst of life’s suffering. It’s only reality rests in the abstract. It’s not tangible and it is not to be nailed down or it loses its essence. Hope is placed at altars all over the world. It prevails in the sacraments of marriage and death. I met a man in Van Horn, Texas, who stopped to chat as I was drinking a cup of bad coffee. He told me that his wife made him breakfast on the first day they were married and when he responded by saying he usually didn’t eat breakfast, she never made another. We have been married 41 years and never once has she made my breakfast again. And now I want a good breakfast and I have to make it for myself. But, he added, if you lined up a thousand women I would chose her all over again. I thought, this goes I see it in President Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Award, in recognizing that attitudes change the world; that a leader’s hope and intentions can bring a new energy to those who are oppressed and losing faith in the future. Peace, like a river, rarely, if ever, flows, but we all want to believe that it can. We hope it can. Yes, hope propels us forward, gives us vision, and a quest. It has a childlike quality that keeps us going. Like Little Toot, the tiny train who made it up the mountain saying, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, until he reached his destination and sang, I thought I could, I thought I could, all the way down the other side.
25 Just can't resist old songs, they tell my story....I don't get around much anymore, but I must tell you I just returned from a 3,000 mile road trip through this beautiful country with my daughter and her husband, who by the way, when he was a driver in his trucking business amassed more than two million miles traveling the United States, what a great driver! Each of the states we went through had their own absolute beauty and color, temperatures ranged from 250 to 850, lots of rain and snow the last day. Why would one travel in such unstable weather I'm so glad you asked. We went to K.C. Missouri to see my two month old first 'great' grandchild, oh my, what a beautiful baby boy, my granddaughter and proud husband doing well! Then to see other granddaughter and her young man wedded in a very beautiful, simple ceremony, my other two sons and wives, granddaughter #3 and grandson #1 also, lovely friends and guess what It was all free! The marvelous scenery, the unforgettable moments with family and friends, the love, one for another, FREE! Then to arrive back in Arizona in time for me to sing again... The moon belongs to everyone, The best things in life are free, The stars belong to everyone, They shine there for you and me. must say, the moon is bigger here the stars are closer and they really are brighter too, it's all mine I and I don't mind sharing, can you believe it's all free Ruthie's Recipes Pennsylvania Dutch old saying: The hurrier I go the behinder I get. Haiku for November: The swallows are gone Willie said goodbye last month They said they'd return SWEET POTATO AND CRANBERRY CASSEROLE 1 large can sweet potatoes 1 c. orange juice What You Should Know About Sweet Potatoes 2 c. fresh cranberries 1/2 c. melted butter 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1 tbl. cornstarch I buy baby sweets, peel and cook and mash, two small ones are about 5 inches long and 2 1 c. firmly packed brown sugar inches around. A tbl. of brown sugar and a delicious dish is to Mix juice and cornstarch, add sugar, butter and nutmeg, mix with sweet be had for two days! potatoes. Place in large baking pan or casserole, sprinkle cranberries on top, press in. Bake 3500, 20-25 min. GREEN BEAN BUNDLES DUTCH PECAN PIE 2 cans whole green beans 12 strips bacon 1 c. white sugar 1 c. chopped pecans 1/2 c brown sugar cut in half 1 c. white karo 1/4 c. soft butter 3/4 stick butter, melted garlic salt 2 eggs 1/4 tsp. salt Make small bundles of beans (8 or 10) wrap strip Cream butter and sugar, add salt, well beaten eggs, syrup of bacon around, seam side down. Place in large and chopped nuts. Bake in raw pastry shell 1 hour at 3000. baking pan in rows, pour butter mixture over each bundle, sprinkle with garlic salt, cover and bake in a 3250 oven for 20 min. uncover, turn bundles over SALTED PECANS... and bake 20 more min. til bacon is done. Delicious To Eat or Give 1/2 c. oil 4 c. whole pecans COLDER WEATHER 4 tbl. white corn syrup salt FOR BIRDS TOO Mix oil and syrup in heavy pan, add pecans and stir well. After nuts are coated put skillet in preheated 3000 oven, bake 15 min. stir nuts Do this three times, check that nuts don't get too brown. Take from oven and dump nuts onto wax paper. Sprinkle with salt. Soooo good! This mixutre can generate body heat. 1 c. salad oil 3 tbl. peanut butter 3 c. corn meal 3 tbl. honey I just mix this with my hands, place in holes in wooden feeder or sprinkle on bird feeder 90 calories no fat fiber 4 g. Vit. A 120% Vit. C 30% Iron 4% Calcium 4% Blessing to all dear friends for a Happy Thanksgiving, it's Free! Do you have items you’d like to sell on ebay Collectibles, memorabilia or the like! Mike Bader 398-2437 cell 370-7239 Tubac Online Sales Internet Auction Consignments email: TubacOnlineSales@att.nett Did you know Tubac's Shelby's Bistro was chosen by Arizona Highways as one of the Top 25 places to eat in Arizona! Congratulations Shelby's
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