"salt in the pond / for your fish"

The subject line's from Nikki Giovanni's "I am Jazz," which is in Bicycles: Love Poems, which I am reading tonight because my e-book loan expires in a couple of days.

I am cooking: "Company Carrots" (recipe from Charleston Receipts Repeats), a riff on parmesan black pepper coleslaw (because both parmesan and cabbage were on sale at the supermarket), and pork chops.

I am listening to TFS's "Blackest Crow," via Nathalie. Sxip Shirley: "The girls started singing 'The Blackest Crow' and it was like a mute volume hit the party. The party went SILENT and people listened to the women sing and it felt like that...LISTENING TO THE WOMEN SING."

Back to the stove, back to the knife, back to the pen and the paring life... ;-)

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three people highlighted the last three words...

...of this passage in my library e-copy of Nikki Giovanni's Bicycles:

In order to properly care for things
They must be loved
And touched

- "Give It a Go?"

Giovanni, Nikki (2009-01-09). Bicycles: Love Poems (p. 35). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

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