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Pilates Poem June 30, 2010 For Chefs Who Dare to Make Cajeta!

This post is a poem dedicated to Jan Bramlett, my sister, my dear friend, my husband Charlie's first wife, & a finer woman you've never met...This on the first day of her cross-country adventure with her kin...

Why do I post this on my Pilates Blog? Two of my pilates clients, Jan and Amanda Moore, inspired it!

Read the Pilates Poem for Cajeta & Brownies below (Cajeta was made for Amanda Moore, whose birthday we celebrated on Sunday, June 27th...and

Jan has inspired me to publish my poetry right here in Arcata on our newly reinvigorated and baptised "THE MANILA COMMUNITY POETRY BOARD"

For Chefs Who Dare to Make Cajeta!

Cajeta is best when tears fresh
fall
inhale to prepare those hips to move
exhale and engage those kegels once more
and please
don't forget that the spine is a two way stretch
the path to the light of heaven's gate our place of origin of spirit of womb
dark and then blast...
the cajeta it moves and the sauce reponds to the hips moving in a figure eight
like infinity
like yoga with ever the breath leading the sway of thoes hips and belly begins the move and
350 calories are burned each of the three hours
that the hips move in that infinite sway of love and creation
and that spine is erect and sometimes not as it responds
to the belly button the navel the sweetness of daring to cook for 3 hours
and not leave the hot stove to breath the air fresh from the ocean
but love knows no bounds
and I weep for the sadness the grieving the veil about to be
let go
to vanish as the future unwinds
as Amanda's letting go her veil her mourning veil is released as she sheds it
with understanding how like they a re
birth and death
how they are so very intertwined in
difficulty...to be birthed...to be died
or
is it
to be born...to be died
how much of our own spirit soul consciousness is part of birth and death
how much consciousness is required to make the cajeta? And eat it too!
Without getting fat? Follow this routine while you make it!

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Here is a picture from 1957 with my dear Charlie Gilbert and many of his life-long friends! Enjoy...

 
Thanks to Dad for finding this circa 1980's photo of my dear and loving mom, Frances Slater, and me, dressed to kill in our Hungarian folk costumes. Note that Frances is wearing a set of hand-embroidered and designed Hungarian clothing. In order to create this beautiful piece of folkart, she studied with a master teacher who taught her how to design the floral motifs following the age-old traditions of the Magyars. Linda is wearing a costume that Fran purchased from her mentor.

 

In honor of my lovely Aunt Doris and Uncle Dick and my wonderful cousins, Debbie and Jonathan, here's an old picture I found among my parents' old photos. I'm framing and giving the original to you, Doris, when we see you next! Love, Linda and Charlie

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My love, my life partner, my soul mate forever...Happy Holidays 2009 Charlie!

 

Oh what a joy it was to see my old and dear friends, Wes and Sharam, and to spend time catching up in person...Love you guys!

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