On the Menu this week . . . .
A Compass & A Map
Maps, metaphoric and real, guide us and seduce us to avoid the less-well traveled roads. But maps obscure more than they reveal and keep us from finding some of life’s most treasured treats. Take a lesson from the birds of the air and learn to navigate life by following your compass and embracing the chaotic, magnificent adventures found by wandering off the well-beaten path. (Read full article here)
Wild Geese
Mary Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. I discovered her several years ago and have been captivated, inspired, taught, and changed by her poetry. This is one of her most famous and beloved poems that draws on her uncanny revelations about the complexities of life through the simple lessons of nature. In this case, the migrating, wild geese. (Read full poem here)
Undiscovered
I stumbled on his song, “Undiscovered,” during a TV show or some other random way many years ago at a time when I felt lost. His lines, “I’m not lost, just undiscovered” felt like they were written for me. I’ve since listened to it more times than I can count. To all those who are still undiscovered!
The Pale Blue Dot
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU).(Wikipedia)
From the Carl Sagan Portal:
“Carl Sagan lobbied NASA for ten years to command the Voyager 1 spacecraft to turn its camera homeward to take one last picture from beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. On Valentine’s Day in 1990 it did so, revealing our world to appear as but a single pixel from that distance. Carl wrote the following mediation on the meaning of that image.”
Click the image to see the video of Carl Sagan’s reflection on this remarkable picture. The words are taken from his book, Cosmos.
Do the real food cart piece here - link to the full page - the project will appear in a list on the blog page of all the food carts. So, as I write this text each week I’ll need to change the link so that the click goes directly to the page about this cart and not to the archive page.
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