About This Site

What's it all about Alfie? about time, if you think about it, that I tell you all about what this site is about. It was after a bout with a particularly virulent virus that I turned about to discover that my life was about over, and I started thinking about what it was all about. Well, as just about anyone will tell you, aboutness is about the only thing that we humans can do anything about, and if my life is to be about anything it is about time that I got about making it so. So, I'm about to set about turning myself about (hokey pokey), and I'm about to tell you about what it is all about...

I'm about to leave this lovely cafe, where I've been working mornings for about six months. In that pot you see are some black beans I just cooked for some soup I was making:
1 qt black beans - soaked, cooked in the same water with some cumin; add some salt after they are fully cooked and simmer about 10 minutes longer
1 lb onions - dice & saute until well caramelized
1 head garlic - peel, mince and saute until brown
2 carrots - peel, dice, saute until starting to brown
1 medium size yam - peel, dice, saute until browned
3 stalks celery - dice & sweat
1/4 cup ground cumin - toast in a dry pan about 2 minutes
1/4 cup ground cumin - just as it is
1/2 bunch cilantro - remove stems, mince
1 Tb ground pepper
2 Tb thyme
Throw all that together & simmer until the beans are starting to break down.

I'm about to take a step into the unknown, at least the moderately unknown. I'm about to begin a month-long, season-long, life-long search for the meaning of life...my life. I'm beginning with a cross country trip, visiting organic farms and intentional communities, and this web site will be a testament to that trip. It will include any damn thing I choose to include in it. You are welcome to bum along with me.