Simple pleasures

 

A beautiful new cutting board as a Christmas present...this isn't the side you cut upon.

I don't have a great place for it in the kitchen, but it looks good under my big tree of life, (sitting on the heater)

And it's from my daughter-in-law in St. Petersburg Beach FL...she's always got pretty beach things around her!

With cooking more and more in a non-stick skillet, I was really needing one of these spatulas...so I wouldn't ruin the finish in my new skillet. A present for myself!

And I hope to keep this performance by a young poet, so I can see it from this site whenever I wish. If you missed it, I think she was channeling Maya Angelou, but she expressed her own ideas for her own time.

Today's quote:

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest", but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. -Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (14 Sep 1917-1986)