My life in a kitchen - the life of my kitchen is really a galaxy - centered - the black hole of everything comes in here one thing - goes out another thing - all things constellating around my kitchen. Each morning, jug goes on, water filter topped up - then a pause to write - then tea, then coffee, then eggs- and toast. The day is stated with a clean bench. Must be clean - the house can be a wreck but this place of God must be kept clean - I would die otherwise. The fridge stinks. Why does it stink? I don’t want to clean it but it may need to - like the time last tine I cleaned it before you came - such a clean - such a shine - I was proud each time I opened the door - know that feeling? You Virgo’s do. Then the mid day - these days its my three mix break (buckwheat grotes, brown rice and quinoa - soaked, then blended) toasted with peanut butter and my own dill lemon kraut - a lunch that is fast, nourishing and ticks the box as actually being a kind of lunch - but no so much that puts me to sleep - I get sleepy after big lunches. Then clean up - or maybe this little mess can remain till dinner. When the kids are here - there will be an afternoon flurry - toasts - snack plates of corn chips, carrot, meat sticks and maybe one piece of dark chocolate - then its off for the finale: dinner - usually meat based except when we do vermicelli rice rolls - which we do a lot. I like the cast iron pans and pots - real cooking - hot, heavy and able to really bring out the sweetness of onions, carrot and mince - this place is a nook - is a little world away from the rest of the world - a place I rest into even as I work - a place I gaze eastward at the sky and the sun streaming through the eucalyptus up yonder. This is a place where my love and I steal away moments from the children - where intense conversations can start, middle and end. This is the place of my love, my earth body really singing its tune - the tune of life going in and out of bodies - making a prayer and shrine out of the everyday magic that turns up in each and every meal.