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| …El Almuerzo by Diego Velázquez (Public Domain) |
Today's life slice is bread: the staff of life, sustenance beyond just food —“bread and butter.” Bread or dough is cash, plain and simple. Breaking bread with others is more than sharing a meal: joining in and sustaining the spirit — a fitting image for the spiritual nourishment of sharing words in a writing community.
Read more about about bread as a global staff of life and even poetry: Pablo Neruda's "Oda al pan" and César Vallejo's "El pan nuestro" (among others) because "poetry, like bread, is for everyone." (from "Como Tú" by Roque Dalton, translation by Jack Hirschman)
I just read Pablo Neruda's Ode to Bread, thanks to your post, and it was spiritual nourishment indeed.
ReplyDeletetake a look at his other odes too -- there's an ode to an onion -- and even one to his socks.
Delete...And baking bread is an experience in itself.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the slice (of Bread) .
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so many other metaphors cross -- making, baking, creating, writing. I've been hearing the expression "baked in" a lot, maybe too much. That can make phrase "stale" (another bread connection)
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