Bake This Day Our Daily Bread - Bake This Day
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Maque Choux and Street Corn Pizza from the Garden of Earthly Delights “It just arrived one day, like she was accidentally pregnant with her own dying. It was pain’s version of the virgin birth—you never did it with death, but somehow it screwed you anyway.” CE Morgan
The best literary description of what it feels like to get a cancer diagnosis, from the inimitable author of my two favorite novels, All the Living and Sport of Kings. I imagine this is also similar to the sentiment harbored by the millions of humans infected with or who have lost a loved one due to COVID. The list just keeps running, with endless credits. So it goes.
Meanwhile, we still among all the living keep finding new roads to calm. Here in the South’s tropical spring, I find peace in the backyard, a place now more arguably a who than a where—this garden turned diva inspiring me to do better than pajamas. I just know my purple and red columbines, my hot magenta hibiscus, the toad lily and the mean girl succulents are like, Bish, Please! when I show up to water them in gray sweats and scuzzy slippers sans lipstick. Nature has a point. And profoundly, only one—survi
Bake This Day Our Daily Bread - Bake This Day