A Pie For Your Thoughts

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Pie Poem #16

"...the God who shows me unfailing love." Ps. 59:17

Before the hello I was almost without yearning,
yearning for what never was.
Leaving family, so no family, leaving husband, so no
husband, leaving babies, so no babies.

I watch my Gaura plant, pink flowers on long green stems.
two others killed in these harsh winters but this one,
oh this one is taller then I am, strong, swaying, blooming on and on,
It ignored the ninety-eight inches of
snow this year. With mercy,
I kill the aphids on it by
squeezing them to death.

And you,
You have all those things.
It's not for me to ask what do you cherish.
because I already know family and time.
Now I yearn. My Buddha says no yearning.

I look at old poems and I see
drunken illusion more then once.
Excused myself for love.
drop everything love
know nothing love
The Buddha within is not the
Laughing Buddha
sitting in my kitchen window,
watching and waiting for my blueberry pie, or
joy, my peace, my yearning less ness.

The Buddha in the living room says
yearn no more. Is there a weeping Buddha?
No. Effexior stopped the Buddha from any weeping.
He says make a pie to give away.
Give.
Yearning will go.

~ Cate DeLong

Gaura: "Siskiyou Pink"

Further Thoughts From Cate's Nature JournalOut this morning looking at my garden and my neighbor informed me that the bunnies have been eating geranium leaves. We have more bunnies this year because the red tailed hawk moved. He was huge and sometimes when I spotted him watching me (really watching something else) and I got a close up I was amazed of his innate power and how beautiful he was. Saw a Golden Eagle three years ago here also on his way to CVNP (Cuyahoga Valley National Park). That blew me away. There are so many places around here to see wildlife, woods, waterfalls. I can walk to a huge gorge forest with rock caves edging the Cuyahoga River. I can walk to one of the best local yarn stores in the country. I can walk to the donut shop (never have, really) or the library or the river center or the Natatorium and swim. It's pretty perfect: Perfectville. Only us city kids would call it that. And you know how I love the snow.

Grilled corn from my past life, yes, but I've forgotten about it. I don't grill just for me but I think of the Thermidor huge grill we had in my last kitchen. A flick of the grill, a flick of that big fan and grill city. We had a grill vent on the side of the house that was restaurant size. Make grilled corn chowder next time, but use half and half, don't skimp.

Just now I put together a set of storage shelves on wheels that I've been staring at for weeks getting ready to do it. Not at all as hard as I thought it would be --what is? Now finished, and found out why a Philips screwdriver tip is magnetized. Cool. I bought a set of screw drivers last year because I was tired of not having the correct driver.

Back to work. No pie. Making a peach crisp.

P.S.
"We must have a pie.
Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."
~ David Mamet ~

See also
"Kiss Pie!" & "Do I Dare To Eat A Peach?"

Kiss Pie!

Before the Valentine Season Slips Away
Now seems like as good a time as any to explain why, in our family, we say "Kiss Pie!"

Back when my younger son Sam (now 20) was about 3, he came bursting in one day and said, "Splash pie in Mommy's face!" I never did know the origin of that particular exclamation -- maybe something he heard (or mis-heard) on a cartoon show or something one of his little friends said (?).

As for the origin of "Kiss Pie," after Sam's "Splash Pie" greeting, I gave Sam a kiss on the top of the head and said, "Kiss pie on Sam's head." We did that back and forth for a few weeks or months, and from that point on, the phrase became embedded in our family lingo and gradually shortened to "Kiss Pie!" as a kind of all-purpose way to say "Good night" or "Good bye" or "Love you" or "Awwwwww!"

Visiting Sam's classroom during the Late "Splash Pie" Era

Kiss Pie, Indeed!
Peppermint Christmas Pie ~ Cheesecake Factory ~ Chicago

"We must have a pie.
Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."
~ David Mamet ~

"Don't say you're full before you've seen the pie."
~ Russian Proverb ~
P.S.
See also "Do I Dare to Eat a Peach?"
& "A Pie for Your Thoughts"