Pita, Prayers, and Perennials
Welcome to a sanctuary of
Recipes
Inspiration
Gardening Tips
My hope is for all to receive sanctuary and encouragement, including hospitality venues and ideas, conversational meditations, and organic gardening tips. Topics will range from the deeply personal to the light and entertaining, but all with the purpose of uplifting you while encouraging you to think deeply.
Dates, Yum!
Dates are a delicious staple in Middle Eastern cuisine, whether used as a pick-me-up mid-afternoon snack with a demitasse cup of coffee, the first menu item in breaking a religious fast, or the main ingredient in desserts.
An Honorable Gift for my Dad
March is my dad’s birthday month. He had Alzheimer’s in his last years and was lost to our reality most of the time. We missed his wit and academic wisdom. My mother had always surpassed him in the brass-tacks wisdom department! Be that as it may, the world my father inhabited in the grips of Alzheimer’s wasn’t this one, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t real to him.
Don’t Sweat the Dead-stuff
I’m learning not to sweat the dead-stuff in my garden! Every year, I fret that my flowering shrubs and perennials have been killed off by our crazy Texas weather! I say to myself, “this is the year that the ice storms are going to be the killers!”