Welcome to Poetry Friday! Thank you, Susan Bruck, for hosting here at Soul Blossom Living.
I’ve kept busy this week revising work. I’ve also been reading Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. I’ve never read them cover to cover. Twain writes characters with heart breaking humanity. For instance, Twain Huck is unable to be “good” and turn in Jim, an escaped slave, to authorities. He knows if he were a well bred boy and had good character, he would. Twain shows us through character, how slavery corrupted American society. Through his work, we can gain insight into how we became the America we are today.
For an adventure, I baked this week. I have always wanted to make pita bread, and I was surprisingly successful. I read the directions carefully and found it wasn’t that hard. They were crisp and tasty and I surprised my neighbor from Lebanon with some. I used the recipe in my old Fanny Farmer Baking Book, but there are many good recipes on line. Here’s one.
Here are the pita before their plunge into a 500 degree oven . . .
and after.
I wrote a haiku about what I learned about pita:
Two to three minutes it takes to bake pita bread- same as the sun rise. ©Janice Scully 2021
I hope you all are well. Have a good weekend.