Comments on: Find Your Inner Bumblebee! http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/ Food, Recipes, and Photography Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:08:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dorothy http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-14912 Dorothy Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:11:23 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-14912 My Mom died in August of 1979. I was 23. It really kicked me hard. On the surface I was fully functioning but inside I was a wreck and it took me quite a while to get my feet under me. Your Mom sounds wonderful and so do you. Thank you for sharing you! I came looking for Leek Soup (it will be cold and rainy tonight in California); I've never made it but yours looks like a great recipe. Thank you for the video. I had never seen it and I can't wait to share it with my college-aged sons. Again, thank you Nicole for you! My Mom died in August of 1979. I was 23. It really kicked me hard. On the surface I was fully functioning but inside I was a wreck and it took me quite a while to get my feet under me.
Your Mom sounds wonderful and so do you. Thank you for sharing you!
I came looking for Leek Soup (it will be cold and rainy tonight in California); I’ve never made it but yours looks like a great recipe.
Thank you for the video. I had never seen it and I can’t wait to share it with my college-aged sons.
Again, thank you Nicole for you!

]]> By: Mary http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-13157 Mary Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:33:13 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-13157 This blog brought tears to my eyes. I think that is so beautiful and your mom must be very proud of you. Thanks for adding a little joy to my heart today. Bee Blessed! This blog brought tears to my eyes. I think that is so beautiful and your mom must be very proud of you. Thanks for adding a little joy to my heart today. Bee Blessed!

]]> By: drini http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-7715 drini Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:43:32 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-7715 i couldn't resist clicking on your link there after finding your potatoe and leek recipe.. i knew there was something that clicked when i was reading it. i love that bumble bee thing, and it's so interesting how people who live completely different lives can be on the same paths. very interesting indeed. i lost my brother 9 years ago this month, so maybe it's why i'm tuned in to someone losing a special person. it sent me on a journey as you were describing and i came across this book 'a new earth' by eckhart tolle... that book and others was like crutches under my arm, so i wanted to share them with you. they can only take you so far, so like you said, it's up to us to find that place within ourselves. Again, thanks & best wishes :) i couldn’t resist clicking on your link there after finding your potatoe and leek recipe.. i knew there was something that clicked when i was reading it. i love that bumble bee thing, and it’s so interesting how people who live completely different lives can be on the same paths. very interesting indeed. i lost my brother 9 years ago this month, so maybe it’s why i’m tuned in to someone losing a special person. it sent me on a journey as you were describing and i came across this book ‘a new earth’ by eckhart tolle… that book and others was like crutches under my arm, so i wanted to share them with you. they can only take you so far, so like you said, it’s up to us to find that place within ourselves. Again, thanks & best wishes :)

]]> By: emonome | Honeyy, I’m Buzz Buzz Bu-uzz! http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-6219 emonome | Honeyy, I’m Buzz Buzz Bu-uzz! Sun, 27 Apr 2008 04:07:34 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-6219 [...] Well, this is more of a honey-bee thing but let’s not focus on the type here; make your own and send it to someone. Thank you Nicole for forwarding this site. By the way, I still have a lot of people following the link and coming to my post because of the beautiful piece you wrote. [...] [...] Well, this is more of a honey-bee thing but let’s not focus on the type here; make your own and send it to someone. Thank you Nicole for forwarding this site. By the way, I still have a lot of people following the link and coming to my post because of the beautiful piece you wrote. [...]

]]> By: A Hearty Potato Leek Soup Recipe for the Last Days of Winter — Pinch My Salt http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-5947 A Hearty Potato Leek Soup Recipe for the Last Days of Winter — Pinch My Salt Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:01:26 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-5947 [...] it’s just hard to write about a recipe that is so intertwined with memories of the person who meant the most to me and who isn’t here to make it anymore. I can make the soup, eat the soup, share the soup, but [...] [...] it’s just hard to write about a recipe that is so intertwined with memories of the person who meant the most to me and who isn’t here to make it anymore. I can make the soup, eat the soup, share the soup, but [...]

]]> By: wifemothermaniac http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-2740 wifemothermaniac Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:33:38 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-2740 Outing myself as a reader, this is my first post. This was beautiful to read, thank you for sharing it. Your mother sounds like she was an incredible woman, and my guess is that you're something like her more than you know :) bzzzzzzzz ~ Rachel Outing myself as a reader, this is my first post. This was beautiful to read, thank you for sharing it. Your mother sounds like she was an incredible woman, and my guess is that you’re something like her more than you know :) bzzzzzzzz ~ Rachel

]]> By: Genie http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-2521 Genie Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:26:56 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-2521 I want to second Courtney's poetry contribution -- my aunt sent me that poem at a time when I most needed it, and I have returned to it again and again. I also recommend Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. It's in the same vein. :-) I want to second Courtney’s poetry contribution — my aunt sent me that poem at a time when I most needed it, and I have returned to it again and again. I also recommend Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. It’s in the same vein. :-)

]]> By: Courtney http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 Courtney Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:52:37 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-2518 Nicole, I loved your post - it was one of those to-the-point pieces of writing that's overwhelmingly powerful because it's just so honest. There's a poem it made me think of, as well, that I expect you'll enjoy (and not just because of the feast/food metaphor - but how appropriate!): Love After Love, by Derek Walcott The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. ** Cheers - Courtney, Visalia, CA native Nicole,

I loved your post – it was one of those to-the-point pieces of writing that’s overwhelmingly powerful because it’s just so honest. There’s a poem it made me think of, as well, that I expect you’ll enjoy (and not just because of the feast/food metaphor – but how appropriate!):

Love After Love, by Derek Walcott

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

** Cheers – Courtney, Visalia, CA native

]]> By: Syrie http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-2517 Syrie Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:32:43 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-2517 Hi Nicole, Thanks for this inpirational post. It made my heart swell and brought tears to my eyes. Thank you Hi Nicole,
Thanks for this inpirational post. It made my heart swell and brought tears to my eyes. Thank you

]]> By: renee http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/comment-page-1/#comment-2487 renee Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:11:40 +0000 http://pinchmysalt.com/2007/08/17/find-your-inner-bumblebee/#comment-2487 thank you for the really important reminder. there are so many bees around town right now. they will help me remember that it's okay to be me and to just keep listening to my heart. your mom would be really proud of you. thank you for the really important reminder. there are so many bees around town right now. they will help me remember that it’s okay to be me and to just keep listening to my heart. your mom would be really proud of you.

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