In times of old, The Furies protected Mother Right. If a mother (or any woman) was harmed, The Furies swooped down and took their vengeance. They were one of the last vestiges of a world that existed before the patriarchy. When we feel righteous anger, it is The Furies who are calling out to us to make what is wrong right again.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

And Ginger Has It 

Came home today after a meeting in Vancouver and grocery shopping in Portland and finished up the dinner Mario had started. Tomato sauce with shitake mushrooms for pasta. I hadn't had spaghetti (or hardly any tomatoes) in nearly six months. Decided it was time. He hadn't had enough shitakes, so I chopped up and sauteed more in olive oil, then added them to the sauce. Then I made a salad of spinach, lettuce, and dandelion leaves. I bought kale, so I looked up a recipe for it. I'm always buying kale and then it rots in the fridge. I found something easy. Sauteed minced fresh ginger in olive oil and then added chopped kale along with a bit of soy sauce and water. I minced the ginger, heated the oil, then dropped the ginger in. I was talking to the ginger the entire time. Saying how wonderful it was, how beautiful, how healing. Then I thought I smelled something. Like how ginger smells when it begins to brown. I can't really describe it, because it wasn't a strong scent. It wasn't even clear to me that it was a smell. I breathed deeplya. Such joy. Ecstacy. Hope. I was so excited! My first smell in over ten years!

I tried smelling others things, but nada. And later I couldn't smell the ginger any more. But it's a start.

Ginger is reputed to have magical properties. Arab magicians of old used it as an aphrodisiac. It's a distant cousin of the banana. It's supposed to help with sea sickness and other motion sicknesses. It's reputed to calm the tummy (like ginger ale), but it often upsets my stomach. But tonight, ah tonight, Ginger is Queen!

Blessed be!
Posted by: Kim Antieau / 5/04/2006 10:03:00 PM
2 comments

2 Comments:

May you smell in beauty!

By Anonymous Steve, at 12:17 PM  

Thanks, Steve! Hope you are doing well. Yesterday I had a whiff of banana. I was so excited. I think I need to retrain my brain. I'm going to ask my acupuncturist and doc and do a bit of research.

By Blogger Kim Antieau, at 9:33 AM  

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