a new concoction of pasta

Monday, 28th November 2005  


I’ve been a strict vegan for most of the year so far, actually starting in September 2004 but falling off the vegan wagon in Spring, and getting back on in May 2005. It hasn’t been that bad actually as far as cravings for the “old foods” are concerned. Being vegetarian for most of my life and a strict vegan in the mid-1990’s, it’s been rather easy.

But, being a “raw vegan”, in which I eat vegan food that is raw and uncooked, has been fairly difficult during the Fall and Winter months when the weather has been getting colder. But I have been bundling up more, and that is better for me rather than putting on the weight and acquiring a layer of fat around my body to widthstand the cold. Plus, hot herbal tea and soy mochas do the trick too in keeping me warm!

Anyway, I had a strange craving for olives this morning, and I cooked some pasta and added olives, fresh dill, sliced cherry tomatoes, chopped mushrooms mixed with a bit of veganaise…. it tasted very good! And I’ll definitely experiment by adding other ingredients.

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another eerie dream…

Monday, 28th November 2005  


My wife woke me up this morning because she said I was crying in my sleep!

All I remember of my dream is that I was in my younger sister-in-law’s house, although it wasn’t really her house. It was some other house. It was somewhat dark and dreary, close to sunset. My older sister-in-law was sleeping on the couch. And there were children playing in an adjacent room, whom I’d never seen before in my life.

Anyway, she told me that there was this object that, if you bring it close to the window at dusk, would emit a strange eerie fog or mist that would come out and go through the window and head toward the canyon outside. She brought it from a closet. It looked somewhat like a container for holding ice. It was plastic, brown and black in color, and sure enough, as she held it near the window, a strange smokey fog came out and made it’s way through the window and down into the canyon!

For some reason, I let out a “Yeah!”

Then, oddly enough, the ground started shaking as though there was an earthquake. That’s when I became startled by what just happened. But in the dream I wasn’t really scared, or had a reason to cry…

And that’s when my wife woke me…

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hidden poems…

Saturday, 26th November 2005  


I was searching through my previous online journal and found a poem I’d written and forgotten about. It’s always good to go back over past entries to see what one has written. Which reminds me that I seriously need to put together my book of poetry, at the very least, with the sole purpose of compiling together everything I’ve written over the years.

Here’s a poem I’d written back on November 16, 2000, coincidentally, just before officially creating Rice Bowl Journals:

. . . .

late afternoon sun

A warm sun
caresses me, as I lie down
in bed
on this late afternoon.

I think of you,
as the sun’s golden rays
bring a certain joy
to my soul…

I find comfort
in the sun’s light,
even though it dims, as the
approaching night
casts eerie shadows
upon the land.

Yet your beauty
surrounds me
in many ways,
and keeps
me warm
within my heart.

If it is just a memory,
then let it become just that…

a memory…

that finds its place within,
where no harm can come to it,
as I keep it sheltered
from the storm.

For that is how
I will always remember you,
like the warmth of the sun, caressing me
as I lie in bed, dreaming…

into the late afternoon sun.

©November 16, 2000 Carlos Rull

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thankfulness

Wednesday, 23rd November 2005  


I’m just meditating and doing yoga… being thankful for what I have and what I have learned in life….

I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!!

And I leave you with an old Thanksgiving entry from several years ago!

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my version of the four noble truths

Tuesday, 22nd November 2005  


In Buddhism, there are the Four Noble Truths:

(1) There is suffering. Suffering is an intrinsic part of life also experienced as dissatisfaction, discontent, unhappiness, impermanence.

(2) There is a cause of suffering, which is attachment and desire (tanha).

(3) There is a way out of suffering, which is to eliminate attachment and desire.

(4) The path that leads out of suffering is called the Noble Eightfold Path.

My version:

(1) Life sucks… because it does.

(2) We make life suck… because we want things to go our way.

(3) Life can cease to suck… if we can find a way out.

(4) The way out of a sucky life is to follow the Noble Eightfold Path.

. . . .

Please note: I have a sucky life… read previous entry.

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wordpress problems

Monday, 21st November 2005  


For some reason, I wasn’t able to login to my own wordpress account!!!

So, recently I was able to get into it via PHPmyAdmin and redo the password and encryption! What a hassle, but it’s done. I can finally login again! *hehe*

Anyways, the “comments” part is now totally open and no need for “moderation”… so, we’ll try that for now until I start getting a lot of spam!

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