Excellence

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

—Aristotle—

Noodle Planet

Another blog described something really good there... Thai shaved ice. Must try. Noodle Planet in Alhambra.

People in Jamaica

Robert & Sarah
Michael & Sharon Leigh
Ebi, Kevin, Ryan, Leroy
Jim & Terrie Mando (Burbank; dive buddies)

Phoenix people:
Jeff (manages Elephant Bar)
Raquel (fitness dir. at retirement center
Lisa, son Dillon (Adventist, moved from LLU to PHX)

The = De
Thi = Ti
Long A = Short E (ie: "take" = "tek")

Fried Cornbread

2 cups self-rising cornmeal
2.5 cups boiling water

Pour boiling water into cornmeal and mix. Add a smidge of salt if desired. Form into balls and pat into oval patties about half an inch thick. Fry in hot oil; turn to get both sides golden brown if not using a deep-fryer.

Authentic Southern ways to eat fried cornbread include crumbled into buttermilk (ick!), crumbled into the "potlicker" that's left in your bowl after you've eaten all the collards or turnip greens, or cut in half flatwise and smothered in butter and cane syrup. Or just eat it. That's my favorite. :)

Friends

"You can date the evolving life
of a mind, like the age of a tree,
by the rings of friendship formed
by the expanding central trunk."

Mary McCarthy, How I Grew