We say that in Puerto Rico, the night is young. Meaning we still have a lot of partying to do. Believe it or not we do a party about anything. Food, music, dancing if you want, drinking (it is what it is) and in communion with each other, specially after you have been doing it for a very long period of time, everyone is a brother and a sister no matter what. We all know each others idiosyncracies (did I get the spelling right? I struggle with this one) and we jokingly refer to them all the time so your "specialness" or what makes you who you are, or what others would refer to as your "faults" is accepted by what a dear friend calls "the tribe." They are special and to refer to them as "my people" would be extremely accurate. The thing about this relationship within my tribe is that we accept each other unconditionally with our "specialness" and our real specialness, if you catch my drift.
The night is young. I am dressed up and not going anywhere. But I do look pretty. Did my nails, my feet, my hair, my makeup, my legs, and have been feeling pretty special myself. Cleaning, dancing, Besides feeling pretty (whether I am or not), I am happy and savoring the moment. Cleaning slowly all the intensity of the past 3 weeks of recovery from my frozen shoulder. Stay unfrozsn shoulder please! Anyway, life is good and that is what is of importance here. Have literally turned the TV off and turned the CD player on! Started to read the NYT and that was not a good experience so I continued to dance and clean and sing at times, in what I consider to be an intense and emotinal voice, exactly ss the one I used to make fun of, my mother's. The reason I am dressed up is that I was going out alone into the world to go eat something at a nice restaurant, Coconut Grove or Mary Brickell, but I got a call from a friend from Puerto Rico that lives in Orlando that just got back from Puerto Rico and wanted to tell me about our old stumping grounds when we were in high school, and we talked for about 45 minutes. Then it was about 10:30 and as I hung up the phone rang again and it was my cuban friend that is moving to Houston, she lives in Hialeah and I had to go pick up something from her house. So then it was midnight and I did not want to go anywhere at that point. But it does not matter because I have enjoyed every minute of this day and on the way to Hialeah I played my favoite CD of Marc Anthony and I was feeling it all the way there! There is so much passion in the Puertorican music that stirs me immensely. I am going to translate a song for you so you all can hear the power of the lyrics. Give me time. And that would only be the lyrics, because the music itself is unbelievable.
So here I am at your disposition and welcome to my home. Home is where the heart is and in this blog you can feel my heart and soul, if you read it of course.
Stayed tuned, tomorrow I am BAKING! Yes, Oscar (my PR friend who loves it) I am making banana, cranberry, nut bread! So all of you who get some of this batch, consider yourselves loved, not only loved, but loved dearly by the Chef!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
SAY YES TO LIFE!
"Hello people now, smile at your brother everybody get together and love one another right now." Now where can you find today lyrics like that? Don't seem to hear them in English. I do hear some music in Spanish that is intense. And you are wondering from where exactly. Of course, from the beautiful island of enchantment in the Carribean, the one and only, Puerto Rico, Borinquen! That is why we puertoricans call each other Boricuas, because Borinquen was the original name of the island when the Taino indians lived there... until Columbus decided to come and change things around a bit...
La tierra de borinquen donde e nacido yo.... The earth of borinquen where I was born....
Es un jardin florido de majico esplendor... A flower garden in its maximum splendor..
Those are words of the Puerto Rican national anthem. I feel so very puertorican tonight! I seldon drink wine, but tonight I felt so happy I stopped at the Liquor Store on Coral Way as I was leaving Brickell Avenue where I work. I told the clerk behind the counter that I wanted a good red wine. He pointed to a gentleman that was surrounded by a table with cheeses, fruits and many wines from Spain, the mother land. I told him I used to know about wines but lost interest and that I wanted him to pick it for me. He did and here I am having a glass of Sentido 2006 Robera del Duero. Sounds strange but this wine is very smooth and light and I can taste the wood barrell it was stored in, if that is possible. I do not consider myself a connoisseur but this is nice. You sip it slowly and just cover your tongue with the nectar of the grapes and it lights up your mouth. What a great thing when one wants to relax and celebrate life. Brie cheese on the side and Gala apples which are my favorite, and I always have berries! Strawberries, rasberries when I can afford them, blueberries, and blackberries. When I grow up I want to have an orchard of berries! HA!
I did not write last night because I was very tired and had to take care of some business. Just wanted to share with you, if any of you are reading, my state of mind! I am very happy and satisfied with my life today! Re-entered the work force this week after being out for 3 weeks and they did not fire me... even though at times my boss would stir inside and ask me questions different ways to get me to answer what he wanted... well they say it takes 21 days to undo anything so my job skills were great but my people skills with difficult people were not! That I did not miss. But I am also very thankful that I am employed and with a great job for Miami!
So I lift my glass to you and say YES to life and to my speedy recovery which is feeling pretty good at this point. I have been going through life changing experiences and had not felt really happy as I am feeling today since the beginning of last year.
PEACE OUT!
La tierra de borinquen donde e nacido yo.... The earth of borinquen where I was born....
Es un jardin florido de majico esplendor... A flower garden in its maximum splendor..
Those are words of the Puerto Rican national anthem. I feel so very puertorican tonight! I seldon drink wine, but tonight I felt so happy I stopped at the Liquor Store on Coral Way as I was leaving Brickell Avenue where I work. I told the clerk behind the counter that I wanted a good red wine. He pointed to a gentleman that was surrounded by a table with cheeses, fruits and many wines from Spain, the mother land. I told him I used to know about wines but lost interest and that I wanted him to pick it for me. He did and here I am having a glass of Sentido 2006 Robera del Duero. Sounds strange but this wine is very smooth and light and I can taste the wood barrell it was stored in, if that is possible. I do not consider myself a connoisseur but this is nice. You sip it slowly and just cover your tongue with the nectar of the grapes and it lights up your mouth. What a great thing when one wants to relax and celebrate life. Brie cheese on the side and Gala apples which are my favorite, and I always have berries! Strawberries, rasberries when I can afford them, blueberries, and blackberries. When I grow up I want to have an orchard of berries! HA!
I did not write last night because I was very tired and had to take care of some business. Just wanted to share with you, if any of you are reading, my state of mind! I am very happy and satisfied with my life today! Re-entered the work force this week after being out for 3 weeks and they did not fire me... even though at times my boss would stir inside and ask me questions different ways to get me to answer what he wanted... well they say it takes 21 days to undo anything so my job skills were great but my people skills with difficult people were not! That I did not miss. But I am also very thankful that I am employed and with a great job for Miami!
So I lift my glass to you and say YES to life and to my speedy recovery which is feeling pretty good at this point. I have been going through life changing experiences and had not felt really happy as I am feeling today since the beginning of last year.
PEACE OUT!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Today I shared my chicken soup recipe with a very loved human being that was feeling under the weather. Since it is flu season I will share it with you also.
I am on the crossroads of my life and many new people are surfacing and all hold different roles. It's nice. My life is good and I want to acknowledge this and be thankful to the Powers of my universe. You always want to keep them happy! Supposedly this year for Aquarius the stars are in the same place they were when we were born. This is a rebirth... that is exactly it. Another puzzle solved.
Chicken Soup for the Soul and for the Body
by Guavate
BOIL: large pot full of water up to about 3 inches from top
ADD:
4-6 pieaces of skinless thighs or breasts
1 medium sized pealed onion (no need to chop)
1 large green pepper, clean inside (no need to chop)
2-3 cloves of garlic (no need to chop)
pull a bunch of fresh parsley (no need to chop)
2 stalks of celery CHOPPED
2 cubes of chicken boullion
salt and pepper to taste and if you have some Adobo use it
BOIL for about 45 minutes making sure chicken is cooked.
REMOVE chicken from soup and shred or dice and put back shreded or diced chicken
BOIL soup and add noodles and cook soup until noodles are done - about 9-10 minutes according to the noodle.
SERVE: with nice french bread and parmesan cheese (optional)
Miami the weather got real cold today. About 65 and very windy.
Enjoy. Signing off this evening... have a magnificent evening and that you have pleasant dreams.
I am on the crossroads of my life and many new people are surfacing and all hold different roles. It's nice. My life is good and I want to acknowledge this and be thankful to the Powers of my universe. You always want to keep them happy! Supposedly this year for Aquarius the stars are in the same place they were when we were born. This is a rebirth... that is exactly it. Another puzzle solved.
Chicken Soup for the Soul and for the Body
by Guavate
BOIL: large pot full of water up to about 3 inches from top
ADD:
4-6 pieaces of skinless thighs or breasts
1 medium sized pealed onion (no need to chop)
1 large green pepper, clean inside (no need to chop)
2-3 cloves of garlic (no need to chop)
pull a bunch of fresh parsley (no need to chop)
2 stalks of celery CHOPPED
2 cubes of chicken boullion
salt and pepper to taste and if you have some Adobo use it
BOIL for about 45 minutes making sure chicken is cooked.
REMOVE chicken from soup and shred or dice and put back shreded or diced chicken
BOIL soup and add noodles and cook soup until noodles are done - about 9-10 minutes according to the noodle.
SERVE: with nice french bread and parmesan cheese (optional)
Miami the weather got real cold today. About 65 and very windy.
Enjoy. Signing off this evening... have a magnificent evening and that you have pleasant dreams.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
... lights and props all over the place
As I arrive from the office after being out for 3 weeks, the sun is setting in the west directly in front of my porch. What a magnificent view! I have a wonderful city apartment in the middle of Miami and it has the most beautiful and relaxing views for a city. There are about 20 blocks of houses with street lights that are very warm. The first day I moved in here and I was getting ready to go to bed and I turned the light off and I felt something was sparkling outside and when I looked I sprinted to my son's room to tell him to look at the pretty lights and the night view of our great new apartment and then I heard the door shut. It was my bedroom door which was locked and the key was inside. That door was as is to this day unbalanced and moves. I had them come fix it 3 times and then I said the hell with it. Now I hung some exercise pulleys from it and it really is dancing. It closes itself when the AC comes on. It closes itself when I open it briskly and on and on. So my loving son gave me his bed when he saw I was about to collapse from exhaustion from the move. He slept in the living room chair.
I look around and see how fortunate I am and looking at all the candles I have and wondering if I and everyone else will be able to afford nice scented candles in the not too distance future. I just started burning oil and must recommend it to everyone who has not experienced it. The oil is inexpensive and it lasts a long time. I think it is better than the sticks or the plug ins. Aromatherapy also, so it serves many purposes. I put my first oil burner in my newly redone spa bathroom and think it is the perfect place for it. Such a simple thing yet so appealing to the senses.
I am thankful for the mess I have because it means that I have plenty. But I did this last night. I had a photo shoot and had lights and props all over the place. The pictures turned out pretty good so it was all worth it. But had a late night and now I don't really want to do it. So be it, is what I say... tomorrow is another day... this way I can relax and entertain myself with something that will not entail work. Worked all day. Thank God for that. As I mentioned in another blog, my employer is offering people who have been in the firm more than 5 years an option of early retirement but what they are paying out is in my opinion not good enough to give up the job security. Hopefully they will not get to the point of voluntering your retirement. But I am hopeful that it will all be alright.
Blogging and eating fresh strawberries dipped in fat free sour cream, sugar and vanilla extract. Try it you will love it. Perfect companion to a nice red wine. A friend of mine has boxes of this great red Argentinian wine but he never gives me any. You know that is not right.... What is a girl to do to get some love around here or to say the least some red wine. Ha!
Have a wonderful evening because I already am.
I look around and see how fortunate I am and looking at all the candles I have and wondering if I and everyone else will be able to afford nice scented candles in the not too distance future. I just started burning oil and must recommend it to everyone who has not experienced it. The oil is inexpensive and it lasts a long time. I think it is better than the sticks or the plug ins. Aromatherapy also, so it serves many purposes. I put my first oil burner in my newly redone spa bathroom and think it is the perfect place for it. Such a simple thing yet so appealing to the senses.
I am thankful for the mess I have because it means that I have plenty. But I did this last night. I had a photo shoot and had lights and props all over the place. The pictures turned out pretty good so it was all worth it. But had a late night and now I don't really want to do it. So be it, is what I say... tomorrow is another day... this way I can relax and entertain myself with something that will not entail work. Worked all day. Thank God for that. As I mentioned in another blog, my employer is offering people who have been in the firm more than 5 years an option of early retirement but what they are paying out is in my opinion not good enough to give up the job security. Hopefully they will not get to the point of voluntering your retirement. But I am hopeful that it will all be alright.
Blogging and eating fresh strawberries dipped in fat free sour cream, sugar and vanilla extract. Try it you will love it. Perfect companion to a nice red wine. A friend of mine has boxes of this great red Argentinian wine but he never gives me any. You know that is not right.... What is a girl to do to get some love around here or to say the least some red wine. Ha!
Have a wonderful evening because I already am.
Monday, February 23, 2009
... do you feel what I feel?
My life is returning to my cells and they are ignited like a Christmas tree or 4th of July at the Washington Monument. If you know me you know that one of my biggest pleasures is dancing. At this moment my soul is lit up and dancing around and inside my body. I think some of it is that I since this weekend have felt hope alive... had somehow lost some of my light and positive disposition. I treasure this life and everyone in it. Everyone has been missing me and they tell me. I tell them I miss me too. Well get ready 'cause I am coming back! The question here is whether or not you are going to be ready for me since I have been some other person lately. Are you ready? Because if not you better strap up to your seat and watch out I'm coming out! "I'm coming out... I want the world to know..."
Ladies and gentlemen I am going to go write a very very special letter to a very special person in my life. I wonder if this person is ready for me "coming out!" Because "I'm coming out!!!"
Ladies and gentlemen I am going to go write a very very special letter to a very special person in my life. I wonder if this person is ready for me "coming out!" Because "I'm coming out!!!"
Sunday, February 22, 2009
... stop and feel the essence of a grape against your lips
As the sun moves west warming the apartment and my total being. Thinking about the next to distant future -- say 15 more years and what then? Where to go? What direction will life or I take me? Should I go to Puerto Rico to La Parguera with the rest of my tribe... they already have a space reserved for me, or should I go to Asheville, NC or wherever that place may be. The tabula rasa is empty in that section. If I get to stay at the firm at least until the housing crises is over then maybe the plan will be more feasible and attainable. The firm is offering voluntary retirement to people that have been in the firm for over 5 years. Do to the unstable job market it is not advisable to take the retirement pay off.
Last night and this morning I woke up with the premonition that something was wrong with my son and that he needed to get out of the current situation. Silently and then verbally I told God that he was to carry him if necessary to wellness. My son choses a different way of life and at times there is a sudden jolt and I am stopped and he comes to my mind. I turn it over to my higher power and let it go. It happened twice in the last 24 hours. Those are motherhood moments. The chakras that feel it the most are the heart chakra, the life chakra, and the solar plexus chakra. It is the fear that if not stopped on its tracks develops and affects the body as well as the balance of my spirit.
But last night and today I have devoted the time to being loving and sensuous with me... as if someone walked in and served me breakfast in bed with fresh fruit, griddle grilled swiss cheese sandwich with mustard... swiss cheese was pouring out of it, AltoGrande puertorican coffee, my laptop, burned some oil in my spa bath, candles all over the house to bring soft sweet scents to my surroundings... loving myself... warming and lighting up my soul. I said YES to life and I say YES to life NOW! I am feeling deep butterflies in my chakras, my mind, my body are feeling this beautiful energy. I would self-destruct if it wasn't this smooth tingling electricity running through and around my body feels the way it feels. It is like a soft sheet softly traveling in space and so very softly touching my skin... Even a small round purple seedless grape feels special to eat and against my lips. It is a state of bliss. If you feel it, good for you and please do not judge me.
Someone said to me today that these feelings are what keep us alive. I agree that they are the essence of life. Life throws us many curve balls and we just have to make sure one does not knock us down. Stay on our toes. And when these feelings surface feel intensely the bliss and be thankful for same. And so it is... or not...
Last night and this morning I woke up with the premonition that something was wrong with my son and that he needed to get out of the current situation. Silently and then verbally I told God that he was to carry him if necessary to wellness. My son choses a different way of life and at times there is a sudden jolt and I am stopped and he comes to my mind. I turn it over to my higher power and let it go. It happened twice in the last 24 hours. Those are motherhood moments. The chakras that feel it the most are the heart chakra, the life chakra, and the solar plexus chakra. It is the fear that if not stopped on its tracks develops and affects the body as well as the balance of my spirit.
But last night and today I have devoted the time to being loving and sensuous with me... as if someone walked in and served me breakfast in bed with fresh fruit, griddle grilled swiss cheese sandwich with mustard... swiss cheese was pouring out of it, AltoGrande puertorican coffee, my laptop, burned some oil in my spa bath, candles all over the house to bring soft sweet scents to my surroundings... loving myself... warming and lighting up my soul. I said YES to life and I say YES to life NOW! I am feeling deep butterflies in my chakras, my mind, my body are feeling this beautiful energy. I would self-destruct if it wasn't this smooth tingling electricity running through and around my body feels the way it feels. It is like a soft sheet softly traveling in space and so very softly touching my skin... Even a small round purple seedless grape feels special to eat and against my lips. It is a state of bliss. If you feel it, good for you and please do not judge me.
Someone said to me today that these feelings are what keep us alive. I agree that they are the essence of life. Life throws us many curve balls and we just have to make sure one does not knock us down. Stay on our toes. And when these feelings surface feel intensely the bliss and be thankful for same. And so it is... or not...
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Blissful evening... love how I feel in my apartment!
Today I felt some confidence in feeling better physically and above all spiritually. I rose to the occasion and created a romantic moment for myself with steak and red Spanish reserve wine and agte in my condo porch with 65 degree weather and watching the big dipper up in the sky. My porch is totally exposed. It is the last floor before the Penthouse but the penthouse does not start until half way down my apartment so I have nothing but sky in my porch. At the beginning I would complain because it is very exposed to nature and the sun. But now I am ok with the way it is and just have to keep my herbs totally hydraded in the summer.
Stretched my muscles and frozen shoulder is improving. Started to dance (the red wine did it) and relaxed and stretched real good. I guess the wine also has ameliorated the pain.
You know that you are discarted in this society no matter how much people love you when you are a misfit and they send you to the island of misfits. Even if being a misfit is a temporary situation it still is.
I will survive sang some disco dance singer of my time... i will survive... yeah ... still standing...
ou can go to www.twitter.com. join, search for guavate that's my name and send me a message.
Stretched my muscles and frozen shoulder is improving. Started to dance (the red wine did it) and relaxed and stretched real good. I guess the wine also has ameliorated the pain.
You know that you are discarted in this society no matter how much people love you when you are a misfit and they send you to the island of misfits. Even if being a misfit is a temporary situation it still is.
I will survive sang some disco dance singer of my time... i will survive... yeah ... still standing...
ou can go to www.twitter.com. join, search for guavate that's my name and send me a message.
Welcoming myself to this media...
Today I have joined this google blog in order to expand somewhat into another world that I have been apprehensive and hesistant to inhabit even on a temporary basis. Twitter for about 2 weeks and disconnected and removed myself from the media. It was not making any sense to me, specially since I do not text with my cell. I guess I am sort of getting behind in this electronic media and since I am already up there in age, maybe it is a good thing that I at least do it even if not in a regular basis.
I am puertorican in every sense of the word. Lets put it this way JLo got her body from my people. Love to dance and party. Good food, friends, dance, and music... they say that puertoricans even celebrate "dolls' babtisms." We believe in the occult and treaure our cultural heritage and the ones that we have also created for ourselves over the years. Puertoricans will not stop at anything if they need advise or counseling as to using the professionals in the medical field as well as the spiritualists or santeros or people that heal in ways we don't allways understand.
Now that I have introduced myself, I will welcome you to my life via this medium.
I am puertorican in every sense of the word. Lets put it this way JLo got her body from my people. Love to dance and party. Good food, friends, dance, and music... they say that puertoricans even celebrate "dolls' babtisms." We believe in the occult and treaure our cultural heritage and the ones that we have also created for ourselves over the years. Puertoricans will not stop at anything if they need advise or counseling as to using the professionals in the medical field as well as the spiritualists or santeros or people that heal in ways we don't allways understand.
Now that I have introduced myself, I will welcome you to my life via this medium.
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