Writer’s Block

Now that I want to post a new blog entry every day, it’s not so easy as I thought. I find I throw away a lot of words.

I enjoy writing an entry, and then I read it over, and I think: “Who would care about this? ” And I delete.

Like I wrote about how cooking shows prep food extravagantly. When they cut off the ends of a zucchini, for example, they take off an inch or more on both ends and throw the pieces away. I went on and on about the waste. I threw that entry away.

Cooking shows waste food, and I waste words. When it comes right down to it, I may not really have all that much to say.

If you would ask some questions, you would be giving me good material to write about. We could co-create this blog. So, what would you like to ask me?

Posted by Gloria on October 22nd, 2007 under these topics
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Reply from Lauren on October 22, 2007

I think you should do an entry on cooking shows, and I am sure I would have enjoyed your zucchini wastage entry.

Reply from Beverly Herman on October 22, 2007

On cooking shows they do waste food. They also keep some parts that are spoiled, brown spots, defective parts that I would have discarded. This bothered me. Then I realized why they do it. They aren’t preparing these dishes to serve in a restaurant, they are teaching thousands of people how to cook. Information flows spontaneously as the cook moves quickly and freely while demonstrating cooking techniques and imparting precious knowledge that the audience will absorb and translate into countless delicious (or not delicious) meals in their own kitchens. If the cook stopped to remove the brown spots, or slowed down to save more of the zucchini, it would probably be more distracting (than the spots and waste) and reduce the flow of knowledge.

Remember Julia Child, the queen of TV cooking? She was dearly loved for her warm and friendly style (even celebrated for her endearing flaws) as much as she was admired for her dedication and exquisite knowledge of food and her ability to impart that knowledge to the world. She somehow incorporated the best and highest knowledge of food into everyday life cooking for her audience. There are now many teacher-cooks on TV but no one has replaced Julia Child.

You are the Julia Child of Godwriting. Everything you write is appreciated dear Gloria, from your thoughts on simple moments we share as humans in everyday life to the most beautiful, exquisite and profound words describing the very highest knowledge of life. None of your words are wasted Gloria, so don’t throw them away. Just keep them coming and we’ll keep learning and enjoying.

I second that, Lauren. I would have enjoyed the zucchini wastage entry. Perhaps Gloria will retrieve the words and share them on the blog.

Reply from Sally on October 22, 2007

Great response Beverly. There’s not much more I can add to that except to tell you Gloria that I love to read your “regular person” writing to be reminded that you are a regular person and therefore if you can Godwrite, we probably can too! Know what I mean?

Reply from Jo on October 22, 2007

Oh Gloria, you don’t need a co-creator of this blog, but I have a bazillion questions I would love to ask you. I love learning all about people (especially people I love). Many call this being nosy…and I accept that charge, but it’s more than that. I also love stories, and we all have so many stories it seems a waste not to share at least some of them.
So my first question would be: What’s the first delightful thing your daughter did that you can remember?

Reply from Gloria on October 22, 2007

How I love all your comments. What writers you are! I have to confess I almost didn’t use this entry either. Am I ever glad I did.

Bev, do you know I never noticed brown spots on cooking shows, just the wastage! I protest the wastage, even when you’re on a hurry on TV! It doesn’t take longer to cut off an 8th inch than it does an inch!

It’s a pity I didn’t watch Julia Childs.

Lauren, I shall take your suggestion under advisement!

Jo, I have made a note to write a blog entry on the first delightful thing my daughter did. It’s lucky you limited me to just one!

Sally, that’s the beauty of it all. That may indeed be why I’m doing this, so it’s clear to everyone that if I can do it, anyone can. The thing is we’re all equal.

Every day I am amazed, I have to tell you, that such words somehow come through my fingers. Often I look behind me to see if God meant somebody else. And sometimes I wonder if possibly I am someone else! Anyway, sometimes it’s hard to imagine I’m part of this.

With love and blessings,

Gloria

Reply from Engin Zeyno Vural on October 25, 2007

GLORIA-CIGIM,

I love every word you write and I fell in love with the expression of waste of 8 inch part of zuccinis at a show in a hurry

Actually there is one more thing that makes me go nuts!!! OPEN BUFFET SERVICE at the restaurants, hotels and cafes. Actually I adore participating open buffet service. I watch all those gorgeous dishes, desserts, fruits and salads and everything. I greet them with a NAMASTE posture, pay homage and adore and fall in love, cry at this beauty etc… ( I am a natural born Gurme

On the other hand waste of all those food makes me sick. Mostly people can not help themselves and full their plates till stars and they can not eat all those things. So some part of those scrumptious - untouched food goes to bin. And out of those restaurants some children and adults starve without knowing even the existence of such delicious food on Earth.

And as far as I observe, the stuff of those restaurants (most of them are poor young people) are not allowed to keep the leftovers for themselves or for their families. They are told to send those lefovers to the bins without saying goodbye. When I was at uni - at one of my summer holidays -I worked for a 5 star holliday village hotel something, the situation was the same. The stuff people were frpm the poor villages around and they were not allowed to touch those left-overs. At that time I was quite young and I did not question this silly application but now, I ask WHY?

Is there anybody who knows the reason?

And I wish there was a system like this: Every hotel and restaurants have an agreement with some poor families. And every day, at a certain time those families are going to that restaurants and getting their food daily WHAT A CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD ECONOMY AND HUMAN NUTRITION.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
YOU ALL..

Reply from Gloria on October 26, 2007

Engin, what you describe in restaurants seems like a crime.

There is a whole food store where I live that has a restaurant. The name of the store is Everybody’s.

At 8 p.m. every night, anyone can come and take whatever food is left. They even provide you with a container.

The same store instructed its staff, if anyone is hungry and doesn’t have the money to buy food, the staff is to quietly give it to them.

My mother and father used to have a grocery store, and if someone was hungry and didn’t have the money, my parents gave them milk and bread.

This same store, Everybody’s, when new produce comes in, they give away the previous produce, which, almost all the time, is quite good.

Talking about waste, I will tell you a couple of other things that bother me. I don’t understand why the tops of celery are cut off. I suppose to fit the plastic bag. But good celery leaves are thrown away.

I notice that the greenest outer leaves of cabbage are removed so the cabbage you see in stores here is very pale. Isn’t the nutrition in the green leaves? In the regular supermarkets, you see the staff peeling off the outer leaves, and perfectly good food that could at least be used to make soup stock is thrown away, barrels full.

As consciousness rises, this will change.

Reply from Veronika Wilcox on October 31, 2007

Dear Gloria,
I heard from a man that he used to be irrated with a friend because she only talked about God. When he asked her about it, she replied, that this was the only theme worth talking about. Later on, when he became a Christian Science Practitioner, he knew what she had meant.
How about writing about God? This surely IS my favorite theme too.
Love, Veronika

Reply from Gloria on October 31, 2007

What an interesting thought!

I have had some people say to me, “All you talk about is Heavenletters.”

Since I wrote this entry, ideas for this blog have been popping up several times a day, and I am about six or seven ahead.

This morning in my personal Godwriting, I asked God if I were enjoying writing for the blog too much! He said no!
He said the blog is also a connector to Him.

I guess, when you come down to it, beloved Veronika, I don’t know what to say about God. I don’t know very much. God speaks so well for Himself in Heavenletters. What could I possibly add!

I, myself, am not keen on reading interpretations of God, although at one time I read everything I could find.

Sometimes when someone says something about God, I feel it’s right or it’s off-track, and then I have something to say.

I think I would really have Writer’s Block if I were to write about God only. At the same time, I think you are on to something, and I will have the intention to write more about my personal experiences with God. I sure thank you for your suggestion.

Now on the website, there is the Story of Heavenletters. There I tell about how God came into my life.

I am reading a book now by Elizabeth Gilbert. The title is something like Eat. Think. Pray. (I’m too lazy to go upstairs to get the exact title.) Her book is sort of like a personal blog. Her discovery of God is very nice, and I expect I will want to write about this book soon.

God bless you, and thanks.

Trackback from Cat Dealey on November 25, 2007

Cat Dealey…

I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….

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