A cruel and deadly shooting took place this afternoon near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho on a local mountain. These killings are beyond my comprehension and so I have nothing to say beyond these words: I don't understand violence and I'm dumbstruck.
Therefore, I'll focus my blog post on things that happened today that I do have words for.
1. I hosted today's family dinner, so I spent a good portion of today cleaning, putting things away, vacuuming, and hoping the house was inviting for Christy, Paul, and Carol to join me for dinner.
2. I had decided several days ago that I would fix dinner out of the wok. After Darren's birthday party on Saturday, I shopped for vegetables, peanuts, and sauces at both Trader Joe's and Pilgrim's and so, today, I had everything I needed.
Late this morning, I decided to chop and slice the vegetables I would stir fry and put them in containers in the fridge. I had thawed the tri tip steak chunks I would stir fry and cut them into bite size pieces. Midafternoon, I prepared the Thai wheat noodles, then the meat pieces, and then I stir fried white onion, snap (or were they sugar?) peas, zucchini, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, sweet peppers, mushrooms, and maybe others.
At the same time, I steamed a package of Trader Joe's pork gyoza/potstickers for an appetizer.
It seemed to all work out.
3. We had a very good discussion of the ways we draw upon intellect and emotion to make our way in the world. I wondered to myself if a balance between the two is ideal, but rarely achieved.
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