You've Got a Nice Planet

Sunday is my favorite day for study and contemplation. It is THE day for reflection. On Sundays I like a comfort breakfast of an egg biscuit, reading the New York Times and listening to baroque music. Once I get in that zone I'm as close to Nirvana as I'll get during a typical week. Today, after my biscuit, I stopped by the Unitarian Church and sat in my favorite sun room just off of the sanctuary. I like to sit there and listen to the sermon from my isolated corner - observing the goings and comings of the people rather than being a part of it. I'm not sure why I prefer observer status. But as Kevin Spacey said in K-PAX. "You've got a nice planet here."

I made the mistake of showing my son a vegetarian recipe book today and telling him I'd make anything he liked from it. Of course he picked the most difficult dish in the whole book. After hunting down fresh sage and white wine vinegar at the local employee-owned grocery I spent the next two hours making wholewheat spinach ravioli from scratch - and I mean scratch. But it was worth it when he said he liked it and wanted more. But next time I'm going to show him a soup recipe book.

While the kitchen and I became more familiar today I listened to my new Internet radio. The Logitec Squeezebox streams hundreds of radio stations and Internet music from around the world so while kneading pasta today I listened to a radio station from Japan and tried to pick out words I knew. When I got tired of that I listened to the BBC. Reminds me of my days twirling the dial on my old shortwave radio.

Tonight, I started reading "The Names of Things".