Category: MONDAY MUSINGS

Jean Jacques Rousseau, Marion Cunningham and Monday Musings

Hosted by Barbara at Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers

In every city dweller there is a displaced yearning for the rustic farm and land, the taste of the homegrown, all the natural foods. The paradox is that we do want authentic country flavors and integrity, but we do not seek the discomforts of the simple life, so we rediscover regionalism vicariously amid modern convenience and luxury.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th century Philosopher

It is somehow both alarming and consoling to know that Rousseau wrote these words over two hundred years ago. I think the best cure for this separation is home cooking. Looking for and buying raw ingredients, handling and preparing them in your familiar kitchen, and then eating at your own kitchen table will daily restore a feeling of connection with the natural world.
~Marion Cunningham, cook book author

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Monday Musings [41]

Hosted by Barbara at Candy Hearts and Paper Flowers

Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand.

~Unknown

I had found this quote somewhere and wondered why it was unknown, it sounded so profound. Barbara said… Mark Twain said Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see… I wonder where the dumb can understand came from… Good quote, but I think someone’s messed it up a bit…

So we stand updated and corrected.

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