tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84748363135479033592024-03-04T20:29:11.411-08:00Jim TrickJim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-53230516144498070152013-04-30T07:38:00.002-07:002013-04-30T07:40:08.866-07:00New Blog - New Life!<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Hey
friends! I'm pleased to announce a new blog / venture! </span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Thanks to all of you who have read and followed this blog over the last year! </span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">This will be my last post on this platform BUT I hope as you read on you will be kind enough to checkout my new blog. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">This has been a
amazing season for me and your support and encouragement has been fuel
for my heart. Thanks for your kindness and love. My new blog is called
"That Life" and the venture is my desire to work privately and
confidentially with those who long for transformation and greater
fulfillment. I hope you enjoy the new blog! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thatlife.com&h=5AQFgFmCr&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.thatlife.com</a></span>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-46638625870056502382013-01-23T16:10:00.001-08:002013-01-23T16:12:33.276-08:00The me&thee Coffeehouse<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile;">From time to time, I just have to write about my
town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t help it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love Marblehead Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Haverhill is my heritage but Marblehead has
become my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marblehead is a true
community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We say good morning to each other,
look after our neighbors and smile when we pass each other on the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We “keep it local” and appreciate the magic
that is in this little seaport town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(I sill love you Haverhill)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile;">One of the things that I love about our town is
that there seems to be a time honored tradition around every corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect I will write about all of them at
some point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today it’s the me & thee
coffeehouse. </span></div>
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<span class="dropcap"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The me&thee
coffeehouse is one of the oldest and most respected acoustic venues in the
United States. And its rise to the top has been no accident. It’s the result of
thousands of hours of volunteer love and labor from hundreds of people through
the years who have given of themselves to provide a warm and professional atmosphere
for music to thrive.”</span></i></span></div>
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<span class="dropcap"><span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
have this complete gem of an acoustic venue within a couple hundred feet of my
front door is an absolute gift.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each
week a beautiful, old New England church building is transformed into a world
class listening room, featuring live performances, from the likes of </span></span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tom
Rush, Pete Seeger, Patty Larkin, Greg Brown, Dar Williams, Suzanne Vega, Bill
Staines, Tracy Chapman, and now for the very first time Jim Trick!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve
been in the audience for more me&thee shows than I can count. I’m happy to
report that on February 1<sup>st</sup> I will be enjoying this great venue from
the other side of the microphone. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will
indeed be holding onto a guitar and sharing a bunch of original tunes, both old
and new.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am honored and so excited to
be sharing this night with me&thee veterans, my dear friends, MAEVE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For old school “Headers” (those who were
either born at the ol Marblehead <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Mary
Allie” hospital or at home on the kitchen floor) to those of you new to our
beloved Marblehead, I invite you to either discover or rediscover this
wonderful coffeehouse. <span class="dropcap"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even if
you don’t dig the music (which I know you will) there will be enough baked
goods and hot beverages to distract you into a sugary state of bliss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kidding
aside, the me&thee is labor of love for those who continue to make it
breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope that on Feb 1<sup>st</sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you will<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>go to Shubies, grab a bottle of wine, have an early dinner at Five
Corners Kitchen, be at the me&thee for 7:30 and after the show, go home and
drink your wine and with a joyful sigh say<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I love this town”. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/287614"><span style="font-family: Eurostile;">www.brownpapertickets.com/event/287614</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14pt;">I was asked to lead a candle light vigil , in response the CT tragedy, last night in Swampscott MA. Here are my notes.</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14pt;">Give sorrow words;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;">the grief that does not speak whispers the
o'er-fraught heart and bids it break. </span></i><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;"> ~William Shakespeare</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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winter evening here in New England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;">And we stand here
united in sacred posture and in solidarity with our neighbors in Connecticut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Some who are in this
very moment enduring a sadness and grief so profound that their lives will be
forever changed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;">We gather as members of
a community, a community not unlike Newtown CT. Those things that often
divide us matter not in moments like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Opinion after opinion
that we hold tight to on a normal day we let go of on a day like this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys
all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.</i> ~Ralph
Waldo Emerson</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;">As we gather with sad
hearts, may we not miss the sweetness that exists simply in having each other.</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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hard because our minds are always going and its can be hard to slow down.</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;">1. Silent prayers or
simple compassionate contemplation for the families impacted by Friday’s tragic
event.</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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and think about the things in your life that you are thankful for</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;">3. A moment of
silence as we consider ways in which can bring greater peace to specific
situations in our own lives and relationships in the hope that we would live
differently in tribute to those who have lost lives and loved ones.</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;">- and that is
dying. An horizon and just the limit of our sight.</span><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Lift us up, Oh Lord, that
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full of overcoming it.</span></i><span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;">" -
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<span style="font-family: Eurostile; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-fareast-language: JA;">God we call on you in
this moment to bring Your promised strength and peace to our neighbors in
Connecticut.</span></div>
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questions and wide range of emotions we pray for clarity and for a deeper
gratitude for the blessings in our lives that we often take for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen</span></div>
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How are things?</div>
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Lately when people ask me how I am or how things are going I
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“I don’t have any real problems…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have things that I complain about but no
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It has been a good season and I think my blessings are
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Lets face it; none of us get out of this life without
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songwriting partner <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJMJbVOUcE" target="_blank">Rachel Taylor</a> just released a song she wrote called
Heartbreak Is For Everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The title communicates my point.</div>
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These characteristics are the farmland of pseudo problems
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How does it feel when people say you are doing a good job?
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endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success
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Here we are at the half way point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2012
is half over and I can't believe it either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When I started this blog in January it was full of hope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I write today with hope and a pinch of
desperation. If at the mention of our halfway point you cringe, shudder and
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published a long inspirational list. It contained all the things I was going to
consume, how I was going to move and the attitude of my heart. (you can go back
and read it if you want) as a blog entry it got great response and as for
becoming reality it... Ummm.... Well... It's one heck of a list! My hard lesson
is the list making does not equal life living and our days will not live
themselves... They will go on, they will continue, they will pass us by if we
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part of your heart so familiar and yet so neglected that in the depths of your
most intimate thoughts you scratch your head in despair wondering how you have
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answers, explanations or a five point plan. I do write to remind you that you
are not alone and the one step you are waiting to take can happen anytime. Like
right now for example. Make the call, pick up the pen, apply for it...yes you
can.. Yes you can... Yes I can. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My father’s
side of our family is from upstate New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Tupper lake, Herkimer county, VanHornesville and other towns named for
the native tribes that made up the Adirondack region that i cant pronounce let
alone spell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Every summer
we would spend a week or two with my grandmother as well as aunts, uncles and
cousins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While our home life here in
Massachusetts was conservative and tame our New York tribe was anything
but.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was old enough to know what a
cocktail party was and just socially literate enough to be able to accurately
interpret conversations the adults would have the morning after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved those visits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hitting the throughway heading east was
always sad for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Missing my
family really meant missing my uncle Dick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He took me fishing and his wife at the time would take me on walks
beside the rocky creek that ran along my grandmother’s yard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was from this creek that i first got a
taste of fly-fishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I carried the
wicker creel, uncle Dick caught and cleaned the trout and together we cooked
ate our catch for breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As strange
as it may sound, there is nothing like a native, brook trout for
breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Some years
later my father had become very ill and my mother and I decided an upstate trip
would put a little wind in our sails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A day
or two after our arrival uncle Dick decided we should visit his hunting
camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aunt Caroline , my cousins
Richard, Adam and my mother were traveling to camp in the Jeep Wagoneer, while
uncle Dick and I were in his beat up, ol powder blue ford pick up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was delighted to have time with him and I
think he knew I needed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Uncle Dick is
a world-class watercolor artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Painting and teaching art is all he has ever done professionally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add to a celebrated career as an artist the
fact that a few years ago he was inducted into the Ohio Northern University’s
football hall of fame, you begin to get a picture of the kind of man he
is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He works with wood, journals, paints,
cooks, dreams, lectures, listens, watches, hunts, fishes with a fly rod, loves, ties trout
flies,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>raises, repairs, addresses, constructs, defends, and
corrects,.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">We made our
way through the tree-lined road and as he drove he instructed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally he would slow down and point to
a particular stretch of road and explain why a particular scene would make a
good painting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You or I may have not
noticed a difference but after he explained about color, composition and light
it all made sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time with my uncle
enabled me to see the landscape differently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The following lesson has enabled me to view differently the landscape of
my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">“God and
family first” Uncle Dick said. He then repeated it, making sure that I was
paying attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always listened when he talked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“God and family first and then this is the
order, art, fly fishing and hunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those are my passions and those are my pursuits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have unapologetically built my life around
these things and it is with these activities that I fill my days”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">He would carry
on talking about the virtue of finding one’s true passion and the importance of
filling our lives with those things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was a teenager and I have never forgotten this lesson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has shaped a great deal of how I think and
helped to form my world view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">For me its
God, family and friends first, then music, fly fishing and cooking. These items
are the deep call and longing of my heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They enable me to say no to things that do not fit and they are the
ever-growing sunrise on the horizon of my years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">What are your
days made of? What are your passions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are you pursuing them?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s the
chore, responsibility or “day job” holding you back?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just curious…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In exchange for your thoughts I offer uncle Dick’s Stroganoff
recipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here it is in his own
words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enjoy.</span></div>
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a pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Add more if you like it, less if
you don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remove the onions from the
pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I add small cooked
mushrooms, or fresh sliced mushrooms or any other kind as long as they are well
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hamburger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I always use venison, but
it’s easier and less costly to buy beef hamburger at a store, rather than
harvest a deer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More fun with the
hunting.</span></div>
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bacon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like bacon, but like the deer,
much less costly to just buy a pound of bacon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I like the $6 kind, and apple smoked or at least smoked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pan fry, microwave or otherwise cook very
crisp, so it crumbles in your hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drain, pat dry, and throw out all the bacon grease.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crumble the bacon into ½ inch pieces.</span></div>
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onion, and hamburger in a pan and add a can of condensed mushroom soup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Serve hot over
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like flat egg noodles, but
rice, toast, spaghetti noodles or almost anything works because the taste is so
great you’ll be eating it out of the pan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I never make a
small batch because it freezes really well and you can add greater or lesser
amounts of ingredients as you like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
learned this from a friend in college and have never had it fail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also like it with canned venison, but you
do have that deer problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could try
beef, steak or almost any beef, which I have tried.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like lots of sour cream, not the low fat or
anything like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bacon is the
key, I think.</span></div>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-8596457708252555812012-02-16T05:30:00.000-08:002012-02-16T05:30:08.376-08:00Love and Guns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Can you
remember the first time you felt love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not the butterflies associated with your first crush or the day you laid
eyes on the one you just knew you would marry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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experience entered your world?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Long before
the strangle hold of political correctness and cultural emasculation, little
boys played with toy guns. Cops and robbers, good guys and bad guys, war games,
and yes even the now taboo cowboys and Indians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We built and defended back yard forts, ducked and rolled, hid in trees
and threw caps, pellets and self made sound effects that would make the hottest
beat boxer in the world say “dang”. We “played guns”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They looked
real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The classic, silver, simulated six
shooter that smelled perpetually of sulfur, the rat tat tat of toy machine guns
and everything in between.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was no
red tip on the barrel and the cylinder on my toy revolver worked just like my
Dad’s real one. My arsenal was full and my time was my own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">My neighborhood
friends and I would do battle non-stop, day in, and day out. Never did we hear
anything about it not being “nice” or anyone worrying that we would one day
fall into a life of crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were boys.
It’s what we did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Proof of my parent’s support of my firearm
obsession was a summer stop at New Hampshire’s Six Gun City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here in New England we have some pretty
incredible tourist attractions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarks
bears, Santa’s Village, Lost river, Story Land and more obscure places like
Laconia’s (now defunct) Chief Red Dawn’s Indian Village to name a few.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">My favorite
however was always Six Gun City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
70’s it looked like a western ghost town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were a few rides and every day they had stuntmen dressed as
cowboys putting on shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today there is
a waterslide and it has become an ultra modern, old time ghost town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know if they host old time gunfights
anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But this is not a story about
gunfights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a story about love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">We spent the
night at a motel, which was also a first and my excitement made it nearly
impossible to sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also made it
utterly impossible for me to let my parents sleep in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They didn’t seem to mind and that is where
the love story begins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was dressed and
ready to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On this day being “dressed
and ready to go” included a cowboy hat, bandana, gun belt and that shiny silver
cap gun that I waxed about earlier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Standing in the
motel room, a chubby little over excited cowboy I squealed to my mom the
questions “are you happy?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And “are you
having fun?”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am happy when I know
you’re happy” she replied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I am happy
when I know you’re happy…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was six or
seven at the time and I have never forgotten that moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Love is a lot of things to a lot of people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We understand it in different ways and we see
it clearly in some moments more than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In all the ways we attempt to show love to others in our lives I am
convinced that love is beautifully displayed when we are joyful in the joy of
others and when we learn to love what our loved ones love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Who do you
love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What do they love?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do you show them love? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Is your love
for them tailored to them or to you?</span></div>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-9373637009819468992012-02-03T08:23:00.000-08:002012-02-03T08:23:00.977-08:00Shubies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unless your
town is my town, then your town doesn’t have this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever eaten food?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a pretty good sense that you have
(what with you being alive and all). We have this much in common. We all eat
food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alrighty then, do you enjoy really
delicious food?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about kindness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you appreciate community and
creativity?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How about one stop
shopping?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(If you don’t let’s talk off line and I will
try to help you out). So we have all these things in common and yet as I said
in my opening line, unless your town is my town, then it doesn’t have
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The “this” in question is a place
called Shubies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Some of you
just sighed and thought “ahhh yes”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
either live here or have been here and if you have, then I don’t even have to
tell you where “here” is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others of you
are thinking that I am talking about a restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To call Shubies a restaurant would be like calling the Beatles a band or
Ginger Rogers a dancer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those of us
who live in Marblehead Massachusetts, Shubies is an institution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Started in
1948, family owned and operated Shubies has taken over sixty years to develop
it’s own brand of culinary prowess blended with community spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shube family has also developed a family
within a family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will always find an
authentic Shube family member ready to offer a suggestion or a bit of direction,
but the family within the family are the non-Shubes who serve as though it was
their own name on the awning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What exactly
is Shubies??? They do indeed sell delicious food that is prepared fresh and ordered
from a menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is therefore, in one
sense, a restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It sells beautiful
groceries as well though.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the kind
of stuff you’ll find at Market Basket or Stop and Shop, mind you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shubies has the best versions of familiar
staples mixed in with the kind of things you see on the Food Network and wonder
about. (I once ate ham that was made from special pigs who roamed the
countryside and lived off of acorns… seriously). So Shubies is also a
market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Markets generally don’t sell Le
Creuset pots, Wusthof knives or hand-made Vietri Italian pottery, but Shubies
does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suppose that makes it a kitchen
shop as well!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But kitchen shops rarely
employ a pastry chef, a sommelier (wine expert) or an executive Chef classified
by Esquire magazine, as one of Americas top chefs (Shubies executive chef, Lynne
Aronson holds that distinction though she blushes a little when I bring it up
to her.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So do you get where I am going?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shubies, simply
put- is an award winning, community minded, restaurant, market, bakery, cooking
school, wine and cheese shop, Asian noodle bar, liquor store, prepared food
seller, salad bar, kitchen store with a cigar humidor, world-class staff and is
run by a family that genuinely cares about their staff, customers, neighbors
and each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am fortunate
to be a five-minute walk to my dear Shubies. George & Carol, their great
kids (Douggie, pictured above, is the man!) as well as the staff that make up
their family within the Shube family, are an important part of why I love this
little town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shubies 16 Atlantic Avenue<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marblehead<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>MA<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(781) 631-0149</span></div>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-73359521259363331692012-02-01T13:56:00.000-08:002012-02-01T13:57:56.038-08:00Right and Wrong - new song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Last year my
friend Shyla made me aware of this Rumi quote:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">“Out beyond the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">She brought it
to me during a season where I was attempting to write a complete song every
single day. As you might imagine a lot
of those tunes were total dogs (some even had fleas) but as I look over that
batch of songs there are a couple that I am actually proud of. These are the words to a song I wrote based
on this quote. I think it may even make
it’s way onto the new album. (Spring
2012 hopefully)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Someone once
said that we are all trying to be advertisements of better versions of the real
us. I can totally relate. There is this space between wanting the real
Jim to be the best he can be and at the same time extending myself grace to
receive grace in the areas where I need it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">“extending
myself grace to receive grace”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Man… there is
freedom in allowing ourselves to be wrong from time to time. To admit being wrong and confessing it to
whoever is affected by it is such a freeing proposition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Anyone you
need to call? Go ahead then.... This can wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Ok… welcome back. Hope that went well. Here is the song. Working title is I Will Meet You (in
between). Consider it a poem for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I will meet
you in between</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">The things you
love and the things you’ve seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Where
condemnation takes a rest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">and mercy does
what it does best.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">And the way we
were won’t matter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">and we will
fail to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"> the counterfeits we really were </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">instead of who
we were to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I will meet
you in a far off land</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">where struggle
struggles to even stand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">You’ll take my
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll hold your
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll meet you
in a far off land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">And the way we
were won’t matter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">and we will
fail to see</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">the
counterfeits we really were </span></div>
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</div>
<div style="color: #444444;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">instead of who
we were to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll meet you
at the end of the road</span></div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">For the part
of the story that remains untold</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">where angels
sing and love unfolds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">I’ll meet you
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">And the way we
were won’t matter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">and we will
fail to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">the
counterfeits we really were </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">instead of who
we were to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">You’ll be you
and I’ll be me.</span></div>
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<br /></div>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-73651775090093469472012-01-30T20:42:00.000-08:002012-01-30T20:42:41.946-08:00Cider Glazed Salmon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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flounder or scrod. (What exactly is scrod???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I digress) I came here to talk to you about the one, the only…
beautiful, beautiful salmon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are
one of the poor souls that pronounces the “L” in the word salmon, please
don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyhow, you may think you know how to cook
salmon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You do not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All the soy sauce, ginger and honey mustard you can muster will not help
you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This salmon dish is both
tantalizing and comforting at the same time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Like an autumn hug from your fat mamma is this salmon recipe. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">My friend
Christina passed this on to me a couple of years ago and people LOVE it. I love
it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YOU will love it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My in-laws say it is the best salmon they
have ever tasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Keep in mind they are
British and that my mother in law does her salmon in a zip loc bag, in the
microwave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No joke)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, this dish is ridiculously
delicious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I make extra sauce and I
serve this fish with basmati rice and grilled asparagus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh man is it good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s get one thing clear, if you are not
going to use the heavy cream stay home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fat free half and half???<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2%?????<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who are you people
anyhow???? It’s a little tiny bit of heavy cream.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will be fine. (maybe)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will however NOT be fine using farm
raised salmon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want that salmon to
be as wild as this blogger. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So here it is,
Molly Wizenberg's Cider-Glazed Salmon and I believe it was first published in
her book A Homemade Life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For once in my
life I have actually always made it exactly as the recipe says to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t see or taste any room for
improvement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go nuts!</span></div>
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recipe, you'll need a large 12-inch skillet with a lid. The pan should be large
enough to hold the salmon without crowding and to provide plenty of surface
area for boiling down and thickening the sauce.</span></div>
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unsalted butter</span></div>
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shallot, peeled and halved lengthwise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 cups fresh
unfiltered apple cider</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In a large,
heavy skillet, combine the butter, shallot, and cider. Place over medium-high
heat, and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes, then remove and discard the
shallot.</span></div>
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fillets gently in the pan, adjusting the heat so that the liquid just trembles.
Spoon a bit of the liquid over them, so that their tops begin to cook. Cover
and simmer very gently. The fillets will cook for 8 to 10 minutes per inch of
thickness. To test for doneness, make a small slit with a paring knife in the
thickest part of the fillet: all but the very center of each piece should be
opaque. (It will keep cooking after you pull it from the heat). Transfer the
cooked salmon to a platter, and cover loosely with aluminum foil to keep warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">To prepare the
glaze, raise the heat under the pan to medium-high, add a pinch of salt, and
simmer, stirring frequently, until the liquid is reduced by about two-thirds.
It should be slightly thickened and should just cover the bottom of the pan.
Reduce the heat to medium, and add the cream. Stir well to combine. Return the
heat to medium-high and boil, stirring frequently, for a few minutes, until the
mixture darkens to a pale golden caramel--like those Brach's Milk Maid caramel
candies, if that helps--and is reduced by one-third to one-half.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Place the
salmon fillets on 4 plates and top each with a spoonful of sauce. It should
coat them like a thin, loose glaze. Serve immediately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">Note: If you'd
like to make this for only 2 people, halve the amount of salmon, but not the
sauce quantities.</span></div>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8474836313547903359.post-80325042340275239322012-01-29T05:57:00.000-08:002012-01-29T06:14:36.361-08:00Les Miserables and Jesus<style>
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about modern Christianity is that so many people will only ever get to see the
bad examples. This may be true for
historical Christianity as well. The nut jobs, the pushy, the obnoxious, the judgmental,
you don’t have to look too far for them.
They are however not even a caricature of what Jesus intended his
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readers are right wing evangelical, born again Christians. Some are ardent atheists. For those two camps
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will know that there are so many who believe the story of Jesus who do in fact
want to avoid hypocrisy and spread love in a way that is meaningful. Believers, let's long to be more like the one
we claim to believe in. Critics balance
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I had not seen my cousin Adam in 15 years. The last time we were together he came up to
about my shoulder. When he found out
that I was going to be visiting with his father / my uncle, this Fall, he
immediately dropped what he was doing so that we could reconnect at my uncle’s
camp in the Adirondack mountains of NY.
My uncle is an avid hunter and fly fisherman and he raised his sons to
be the same. In fact, it was Adam and
his younger brother Richard who gave me my first fly casting lesson when I was
about 22 years old. Thus Adam would
have been around 13 at the time. I will
be 37 next month. In the 15 years that I
did not see Adam he became a man. A very
large and very strong man, to boot! When
he and his best friend Todd rolled into camp I immediately jumped up and ran
out to greet them. Adam leapt from the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The conversation flowed from how many fish we
were going to catch to how happy we were to be together after all these
years. Those two topics weaved
continually into the catching up
conversation. We laughed, sang, toasted
and even shed a couple of tears. This
lasted into the wee hours of the morning.
Every time one of us threatened to go to bed the chat would take another
inescapable turn. Knowing that Adam
(because he is insane when it comes to fly fishing) wanted to be up at 3:00AM
Tod, Adam and I finally crawled into our beds at about 1:45AM. My wife was happy to see me but unhappy about
the hour! Sure enough we were up at three. We pulled our waders on in the camp dining
room, Uncle Dick got up and made us a pot of hot coffee and sent us on our
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We were going to fish the salmon river in
Pulaski, NY. This river is known for its
world class steelhead fishing. It is interesting
to note that in NY one must wait until first light to fish, otherwise it is
illegal. Adam had us at the river
approximately one hour and forty-five minutes before first light. We walked along a path that lead to a stretch
of river that runs along route 81. We
hiked down a slate waterfall to a path that ran along the rivers edge. Adam was so thrilled that we were the first
ones there. Tod and I just laughed. No one, and I mean no one would show up on
this river nearly two hours before they could start fishing. But I’m so glad we did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">There had been a good dusting of snow and as we
walked the path the sound of our wading
boots cracking the brittle crust of ice that had formed in the tiny inlets
coupled with the crunch of snow were the only sound. With head lamps in place and our rods rigged
we found our way through the pitch dark until we reached the spot. Each of us 25 feet apart sat in total
silence. Praying, nodding off,
strategizing in our minds what approach we would each take to be the first to
hook a fish and considering the utter peace and solitude of the moment turned
our two hour wait for the sun into one of my best memories from this Fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The light arrived and the three of us stood in
unison almost ceremonially. We made our
way into the current and began to cast.
This was only my second time steelhead fishing and the technique we
started with is a little bit tricky. I
don’t particularly care for it but I was filing the “chuck and duck” tactic
under the category of “when in Rome do as the Romans do”. For those of you who don’t know what chuck
and duck is, someone found that you could make your fly cast longer, deeper and
with less likelihood of getting tangled on a rock if you rigged your leader
with a small packet of split shot contained in a length of parachute
chord. The call it a “slinky” and it is
a very controversial method amongst fly fishers. It lacks any of the grace and beauty
typically found in fly fishing. My fly
fishing mentor, Al Seavey does not use the slinky system but consistently takes
large fish using a system of fixed weight about 3 feet up from his fly. It still looks like the chuck n duck but
gives the fisher more control over the amount of weight. Then enters the philosophy of the boys of Eldredge Bothers. Young Tom, Old Tom and Jim run a fly shop in
Cape Neddick, Maine. Part of what makes
their shop so great is that they offer premium gear and wisdom without any of
the pretense often found at such shops. </span></div>
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Jim to have him re-explain their tactic for taking steelhead on the Salmon
river. It involves a float, a small
piece of tube lead and a swivel. It
looks a lot more like fly fishing than the slinky approach and as Tod, Adam and
I made our way to our second stretch of river I could hear Jim’s words like a
mantra echoing in my brain. “Chuck the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We hiked down into what is known as the Paper
Mill Pool. Gorgeous open water with an
even gravel bottom and dotted with beautiful riffles, runs and pools. As I waded out I thought to myself that this water was just
begging for a more classic approach. It
is difficult to break from the group.
Tod and Adam are master fly fishermen who have been doing this their entire
lives and yet each of them were using very different approaches. I am a beginner compared to these
fellows. Yet Jim’s words to chuck the
chuck n duck were still ringing in my ears.
I removed my level line slinky rig spool from my reel and replaced it
with the #7 weight forward spool I had tucked away in my vest. I rigged as old Tom at the fly shop had
instructed and began to cast. It felt
like fly fishing and if well timed I was even able to false cast this system. I began to dead drift my sparkle egg pattern just like I would for rainbows
and browns on my home rivers. About ten
casts in my indicator twitched, I raised my rod tip and was instantly reminded
of one of the beautiful truths of fly fishing which is ; rocks do not take
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> “There he
is!” I exclaimed joyfully. “Hold on Jimmy! Hold on!
I’m coming down” shouted Adam who was clearly as excited for me as I was
for myself. I played that fish under the
helpful supervision of my younger cousin and dear friend. Every time he told me to let him take line
the fish would tear off a couple of yards.
When Adam instructed me to put a little more pressure on him I would
tighten up and carefully reel. When we
netted the 9lb 30” steelhead we noticed by his dark color that he had been in
the river for quite a while. We made our
way to the bank and I held my fish in proud fashion while Adam snapped a
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We released my first steelhead back into the icy
current of the great Salmon River. A
bear hug and a couple of whacks on the shoulder and clear communication that we
were so thankful to have had this time together. He was not the biggest fish in the water but
he fought hard. I was not the most
seasoned fisherman on the water but as I landed my first steelhead I was taken
by the number of faces and voices in my mind that have contributed to my
fishing and how I am seeing the result of being blessed by the company I
keep. I called Al Seavey from the river
and shared every detail of my catch. He
ended the call by telling me to go catch another. Who is helping you to become the
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<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">This picture was taken by a contemplative monk named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Merton" target="_blank">Thomas Merton</a>. It is entitled The Only Known Photograph of God. I wonder if that means anything to you. When it first was brought to my attention years ago, I was in a very different place. I thought it was ridiculous and I dismissed it as such. Review of this photograph and its title provides an opportunity to better understand our thoughts not only on God but also on art. </span></em></div>
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<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Why isn't it a picture of trees? Why isn't it a picture of a field? Why isn't it a picture of mountains? Why isn't it a picture of the sky? </span></em></div>
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<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">In life, art and faith we humans have a tendency to only see that which is right under our noses. Or in this case dead center. Limited perspective equals limited understanding. Steven Covey says "Seek first to understand, <i>then</i> to be understood. Understanding requires openness and willingness to see beyond the obvious. What would happen if we applied this idea of full perspective understanding to our relationships? What if we applied it to our relationship with God.</span></em></div>
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<em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">"My Lord
God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know
myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean
that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please
you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I
am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I
may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I
may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you
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soup calls to you in the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It says
“come to me my love and I will fill you with Cambodian delights the likes of
which you have never known”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
right my people… a talking soup!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
that fact alone you should try this recipe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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all of the meat off two rotisserie chickens, a whole pound of medium shrimp,
brown rice and lots of spice!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also use
like 4 or 5 cloves of garlic because my Grandfather (the late Vinny Dirago)
would have wanted it that way. You can use a bigger pot and go nuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though I have not tried it yet I think
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Moleskins. Yes, I got sucked into that
fad but I’m pretty sure it was before you did, so there. I have a songwriting journal, a prayer
journal and a fly-fishing journal. I
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">My hope in journaling is
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the wilderness of my distraction, never to be seen again. If in one motion I am able to sweep in with a
pilot razor point (black extra fine) or a Kweco-sport roller ball they get
trapped in my pages. Some of them are
serving what seems to be a life sentence.
[an unused idea written in a journal described as serving a life
“sentence” is the kind of thing I hunt… just got one] Other ideas are sprung
free moments after apprehension. I grab
em, give em a shake and try to get them to cough up the information. If they won’t
talk they will sit there. I have plenty
of time…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Another reason for
journaling is the hope that it will slow down my days. It doesn’t work. Since high school the years have been picking
up speed and even if the ol notebook does not impact the second hand, at least
I will know where the seconds went. Old
journals reveal occasional victories in the coliseum of personal development
while others display bits and pieces of me, still being chewed by the
lions. Those are the troubling
ones. The balance of resting in God’s
grace and still wanting to labor for the right things with the right motivation
are separated by failing picket and barbed wire fence. </span></div>
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re-read a journal from years ago and find myself belly aching about the same
things that are holding me back today.
Can you relate? It’s as if zero
progress has been made and yet I know it can’t be as bad as it seems. Or can it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Yesterday is long gone.
Tomorrow may not come. All we have is
now and the promise that if we open our eyes in the morning there will be new
mercies to carry us through that 24 hour period. You know… the one with enough worries of it’s
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2012. I was reading it to a friend the
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">(Confess, repent,
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"> Journal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">(pears, oranges,
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">(Vinegar, mustard, Cholula
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">All forms of good
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">(green beans, sprouts,
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Rise Early</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Be Creative</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Be grateful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I love you for your
time, your ears and your encouragement</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Jim</span></div>
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<br /></div>Jim Trickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181929363625425161noreply@blogger.com0