The Year of Spaghetti

I know. This is the second story I've read about food. This one is an excerpt from the short story "The Year of Spaghetti"by another one of my favorite authors, Haruki Murakami. And as you may begin to see it's about much more than spaghetti. Food features very prominently in much Murakami's writing. Inevitably someone who is not a professional chef or someone who has even spoken about any preference for food previously in the narrative is listening to jazz and going into great detail about the preparation of something tasty. But it's always about something else, and the preparation and consumption of food are like a path to getting there.
I broke my own format rules and went over 4 minutes long on this one. 4 minutes, 40 seconds.
Enjoy.

Dance Me to The End of Love

I was listening to my i-Tunes library tonight. I decided to play the albums I had purchased a few days ago. One album was Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars. One of the bonus tracks was a cover of Mr. Cohen's song. I have really fallen for this duo's voices, connection, and music. They sang it...and sang it well. After playing it for the second time, I felt the urge to share those lyrics. I feel honored to be sharing in the honesty of words. 

Mr. F. Daniel

Light on at The Tastee Freeze

Sometimes the things that preoccupy our inner thoughts, that capture our imaginations, that give us hope as we push through discomfiting and or miserable circumstances are not always prayer or hope for world peace or the promise of reuniting with a loved one. Sometimes it's just food. Lord knows, my fixation with food is as real and hope giving as any religious faith. LOL! I think Richard Brautigan understood this, in addition to numerous other seemingly odd things that sustain the human spirit which is only one of the many reasons I love his work.
"Light on at The Tastee Freeze" is from a collection of short stories by Brautigan entitled "The Tokyo Montana Express." Enjoy.

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