I hope that you all have been keeping well and finding the beauty of this summer. Take a moment to smell the flowers, chocolate, saffron, freshly washed baby skin, get a hug from each of your children and pets.
Kalyn of Kalyn’s Kitchen tells of the passing of Sher (Sher’s blog was What Did You Eat) this last week and, while I never knew Sher, this makes me sad.
Even tho we share some of ourselves here in the blog world, much is left off (I try not to bore you with my stuff!). When something like this happens, the terrible dichotomy between the virtual universe we create online and the real stuff that happens offline glares out and reminds us that we need to work hard to experience all of our life, not just the stuff in our heads.
6 comments for this entry ↓
1 steamy kitchen // Jul 22, 2008 at 10:55 am
i love the colors - would make wonderful prints and greeting cards!
2 Nika // Jul 22, 2008 at 11:31 am
J - aww thnx!
3 Kalyn // Jul 22, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Nika, what a lovely post. I’m sorry you didn’t know Sher, she was really a lovely person. I will miss her a lot.
4 Nika // Jul 23, 2008 at 12:58 pm
K - she was lucky to have such fantastic friends like you!
5 Karina // Jul 23, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Nika- Beautiful post- and gorgeous images. I couldn’t agree more- regarding life and appreciating what we have here in front of us. Not only our virtual lives, as you say, but our embodied life.
Tell everyone you love that you cherish them. Today. This is the message that haunts me since Sher’s death. That and, don’t put off your dreams.
6 Curt // Aug 2, 2008 at 10:12 am
Nika - Nice post and photos… The best thing to do with pumpkin flowers is take the center out, dredge in flour, and fry; one of my favorite things of summer.
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