To me, cooking is not a game or a contest. It’s an expression of love in its simplest form. This doesn’t mean it has to be some super fancy 4-course dinner that takes all day to prepare—it could be a bag of ramen.
To cook means to feed your body and your mind. It helps you express love to the world and to another person when sometimes you can’t find the words.
Great food can almost bring anyone to the table. How wonderful would that be to use well-thought-out to mend fences to cure the world’s ills? I am not suggesting a pizza can solve world peace all at once, but what if you called that old friend you haven’t talked to in years and went out and had a slice? What if you asked your parent you struggle to connect with to come over this summer, grill out, and catch up. The gesture of inviting someone over for a meal seems very small, but it starts with a willingness to try to love once again when before you could not find a way.
The table is a great place to gather to talk it out. It helps if you sit down with some amount of gratitude and humbleness.
I love to transform someone’s dining room into a wonderful gathering place of love and laughter. It gives me great happiness to help build an experience that forces you to put down the electronics and get back to what matters the most—each other.
I am trying to—in my special way—bring people together in a way that seems to be long forgotten. Let’s not forget that without each other, all we have is just a plate of food.
Many thanks to Ken and Julie for crafting a wonderful dining experience last weekend at the Hudepohl’s house. The meal was delicious from the charcuterie board to the tender filet mignon with a perfect tart to finish. The evening also allowed us to sit back, slow down a bit and catch up with our friends. It was a memorable evening and an unforgettable meal. Thank you!
Understanding Venus Protocol: Your Gateway to DeFi
Venus Protocol has carved a niche in the fast-paced DeFi landscape by offering a one-stop solution for decentralized finance activities. Whether you’re interested in lending, borrowing, or yield farming, Venus provides secure and scalable services on the blockchain.
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Key Features of Venus Protocol
Lending and Borrowing
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‘You get one split second’: The story behind a viral bird photo
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By his own admission, James Crombie knew “very, very little” about starlings before Covid-19 struck. An award-winning sports photographer by trade, his only previous encounter with the short-tailed birds occurred when one fell into his fireplace after attempting to nest in the chimney of his home in the Irish Midlands.
“I always had too much going on with sport to think about wildlife,” said Crombie, who has covered three Olympic Games and usually shoots rugby and the Irish game of hurling, in a Zoom interview.
With the pandemic bringing major events to a halt, however, the photographer found himself at a loose end. So, when a recently bereaved friend proposed visiting a nearby lake to see flocks of starlings in flight (known as murmurations), Crombie brought along his camera — one that was conveniently well-suited to the job.
“You get one split second,” he said of the similarities between sport and nature photography. “They’re both shot at relatively high speeds and they’re both shot with equipment that can handle that.”
On that first evening, in late 2020, they saw around 100 starlings take to the sky before roosting at dusk. The pair returned to the lake — Lough Ennell in Ireland’s County Westmeath — over successive nights, choosing different vantage points from which to view the birds. The routine became a form of therapy for his grieving friend and a source of fascination for Crombie.
“It started to become a bit of an obsession,” recalled the photographer, who recently published a book of his starling images. “And every night that we went down, we learned a little bit more. We realized where we had to be and where (the starlings) were going to be. It just started to snowball from there.”
‘I’ve got something special here’
Scientists do not know exactly why starlings form murmurations, though they are thought to offer collective protection against predators, such as falcons. The phenomenon can last from just a few seconds to 45 minutes, sometimes involving tens of thousands of individual birds. In Ireland, starlings’ numbers are boosted during winter, as migrating flocks arrive from breeding grounds around Western Europe and Scandinavia.
Crombie often saw the birds form patterns and abstract shapes, their varying densities appearing like the subtle gradations of paint strokes. The photographer became convinced that, with enough patience, he could capture a recognizable shape.