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“Before plopping the pan into soapy water to clean, try allowing the child inside you to experiment with making a design in the last remnants of food or in this case, mostly hardened chocolate. No one’s watching. If your children are with you, create a tic tac toe board and play a game before clean up. The playfulness of attitude may even entice a child to learn how to wash the dishes after licking and drawing in the pan together. It’s an age old trick that Mary Poppins modeled, of how making work fun gets the job done in a jiffy.”
Music can add sweetness to our life, this audio is of me playing with Spoon Around The House- picking up unique vibrations. Tones are a way to acknowledge that music is all around us all the time in our everyday life. This audio is 8 mins long but you will get the feel for it right away, and you play with vibrations too. If you fast forward toward the end you will hear the tones of some actual musical instruments. Hope you enjoy!
“Reflections on this chant:
It is the everyday repetitive activities of living that are especially influenced by attitude. One can feel bored and discouraged by house cleaning or food prep, clean up etc. knowing the next meal is just around the corner. Nothing lasts. And yet, the opposite is also true. Connecting with Spirit while performing chores lightens, brightens, and rewards that part of us that yearns for meaning in the mundane. Transcending the physical aspect of being alive infuses, fuels, energizes, and motivates action, work, and chores. I experienced such a natural high the day I was cleaning and this chant came to me. Those were years of mostly service to my family. I was filled with joy as one verse after another tumbled out and through me.”
Rosalie Denenfeld Copyright 2/19/1998
“For me photography is a way to honor life in all its rich realness, whether fresh lush beauty, the hopefulness of new life, or poignant torturous despair of the human condition. When a photographer is awake and open the viewer may likewise wake up and breathe in a naked sampling of life.”
Every meal is an opportunity to create beauty and dress up food to wear color, shape, texture that pleases you. It doesn’t take any longer to play with the look than to throw it on a plate haphazardly.
The more you do it the more automatic and natural it becomes. Especially if you are serving food to young children, the presentation may make mealtime more enticing.
I find that it helps me feel worthy when I take the time to create a design on the plate. The whole point is to have fun with it. You can’t do it wrong.
Every meal is a new opportunity to express your creative side. Have fun!
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