I've got two basic chickens in the fridge (cooked with just oil, salt, pepper, allspice and fresh thyme, with potatoes and onions underneath), and another couple chickens in the oven (stuffed with fresh oranges and mildly smushed hot red chiles, cloves, star anise, and dried lavender, then rubbed with a paste made of cassia cinnamon, saffron, ginger, allspice, salt, and walnut oil, baking with potatoes and onions mixed with olive oil, salt, fennel seed, and pink peppercorns.)

(I have this thing about spices, see.)

'The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas to discuss such dry but important issues as telecommunications standards and spectrum regulations. But for this week's meeting in Guatemala City, politics has barged onto the agenda. At least four of the two dozen or so U.S. delegates selected for the meeting, sources tell TIME, have been bumped by the White House because they supported John Kerry's 2004 campaign.'

This is in TIME MAGAZINE, not some paranoid partisan blog.

If God is infinite, there is no below...I like to think that a person can become closer to God, while God -- the infinite, all-pervading life/love force -- is never apart from anything.

Accepting this, it follows that a person cannot be innately evil, for that would be saying that God is innately evil. Instead a person can only be unaware of your own sacredness, and forget that everyone around you is equally sacred -- even when they do things that annoy you, like listen to music you don't particularly care for.

(I know this to be true, but...sometimes I forget to live it)