Day to day stuff....a memoir without order. |
Imagination is described by Webster as...The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses in reality. Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere." I never realized it until I read it somewhere but there are ways to boost one's imagination: Create a visual journal Draw whatever you see for 15 minutes a day. You don't need to be an artist. Think like an artist Cut out pictures from magazines & piece them together to create an original image. Listen to Bach Close your eyes while playing your favorite music. Or listen to the sounds of nature on a CD or in the great outdoors. Play word games Try thinking of as many words as you can that begin with MAR...or you pick. Daydream Let your mind wander, or focus on a single object & study its characteristics. Everyone has a story....here's mine.....c |
I made some darn delicious banana muffins this afternoon! I had this poor little, almost black banana lying in the fridge, I'm sure you know the kind, so I posed the question to Google, who answered with the following easy one banana muffin recipe: Ingredients for 9-10 banana muffins (preheat oven at 350 degrees) 1/4 cup melted butter 1 mashed banana 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1/3 cup light brown sugar 1 tablespoon milk (mine was almond) 1 beaten egg 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 cup all-purpose flour I melted the butter in a bowl in the microwave and let it cool some, then added the mashed banana, the two sugars, the milk, and the egg, and stirred them all together. Into that mixture, I dumped the rest of the ingredients and stirred it well. I dropped 2 heaping tablespoons into each of 10 paper cupcake holders, and baked them for 23 minutes. Let them cool completely (if you can) before you try to take off the paper or you will lose a lot of your cupcake. I went back to Google and added up all the calories for each ingredient ending with a total of 1500, which divided by 10 cupcakes gave each one a caloric total of 150...not too bad considering how good they are. I'm really looking forward to having (another) one with a cup of green tea later on this evening. Lots of other things could be added in but I had nothing else handy...walnuts, chocolate chips, craisins. And they are so good as is! |