Cricket's Tofu Treat (Midnight Tofu Pudding). Atlanta Yoga Diva. Adam and Eve.

Look who is hiding!

Last year I got to do some work with a friend from Atlanta.  We had met abroad........and I had not yet been able to see her in her "home base".  But you know it's going to be a good experience when upon arriving home from the airport, she lets you know we aren't parking in the driveway because that is her yoga teacher's parking spot.  And then starts telling me she is learning to chant the Sutras (Patanjali) and bursts out into Sanskrit Song.  

This is a great Yoga Room!!  She lives right by the University in Atlanta and her whole house is super bright & airy.  And I kept running into little sayings taped onto things.  Quotes from different spiritual texts.  

And she is pretty much vegan. She has been eating vegan style macrobiotic for years and rocks a super sporty body.  I remember watching all these girls float by on the dance floor, at an Argentine milonga.  And I kept staring at one as she was whisked by.......with a super muscular, stealthy body.  Well, it was my friend, who was 50 at the time, who was rockin' the milonga that night.  

Love the screened in porch.  We had to do a pollen cleanup so she could host an after party later. Apparently there is always a layer of pollen on everything & it can be torture for those with allergies.

And look who is hiding in the piano!  Cricket!

Cricket has one ear cut a little bit.  That's because originally Cricket had been captured, neutered, and released.  Well, I guess that some peeps (including my hostess) thought Cricket may not be a "feral" cat forever, or thought he could at least get a shot at a "home" life.

Apparently he took quite well to it!!  This was his "safe" spot.  Well, probably until she started playing too much!

So I am naming the midnight snack she made after Cricket.  

So she puts a touch of soymilk (but you don't have to use any, if you don't want to!) in the food processor with some frozen berries, tofu, and a touch of stevia.

And a few minutes later....a super protein packed midnight treat.  I know a lot of peeps don't do a heavy tempeh, soy, protein type of diet.  But from the looks of it, it is working for my hostess!!  Her kitchen is stocked with loads of fresh veggies, fruits, and tempeh types of quick go to proteins.  She eats simply & super clean.

The next morning I went for a run around the campus area.  Guess that CNN is pretty close & I kept imagining I would run into Sanjay Gupta.  I know, so totally silly, but other than the child murders that happened so long ago, it's just about the only other thing I "attach" to Atlanta!  And I think he may be involved with the University?

They have an amazing trail there.  So quiet & wooded.  And actually some hills!!  

I thought I was going to "run" to a juice bar type of place that would be next to a sustainable sort of "fashion" store, but sadly the juice place had gone out of business.

Evolve Boutique.

The Eco Jeans looked fun, but always such a hassle to attempt to get jeans that you like....well at least for me!  And was kind of gross & sunblocky from running.  So already feeling a little out of place at a pricey "boutique".

Lots of Organic cotton & also just generally crafty types of clothes, jewelry.  Not necessarily all eco based, but more individually made, smaller brands, etc...

The gal who has this company was chatting with the store owner.  I think she has her earrings in some really major department stores.

And I was eating loads of bananas then too!! With too much tahini though!! Love the apple, banana, tahini combo though.  Beats Peanut Butter anyday, at least for me!

Here is Ms. Macrobiotic Girl's Group..........

And here is Pj from www.gatewaypets.com getting some love from Adam and Eve.  These were just a couple of the kids we saw this morning, in East St. Louis.  Illinois.  So many street dogs there.  Pj & GPG go daily to feed & care for them.  And then rescue as we have fosters & openings at the Emergency Shelter.  We are always looking for volunteers, to go out on feedings, plan events, walk the dogs at the shelter on Manchester.  We are located in St. Louis City, but our feeding routes are in Illinois, in pretty impoverished areas.  Dreary, Rainy Days and feedings with Pj always make me pretty emotional.  Well, today sucked because we did NOT see Tony & Elsa, who were slated for rescue awhile back.  But their rescue didn't work out & Elsa is pregnant.  And then Pj saw them both individually, and they seemed "off".  Now it's been days since she has seen either.  Hoping they are okay.

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I was tickled to find these animations from South Park's Matt Stone & Trey Parker on YouTube!  They take excerpts from talks of Alan Watts and animate them.  Alan Watts got my attention in college, where I had accumulated a stack of his books from a favorite used book store.  I tried to no delve into them too deeply as they didn't seem conducive to "study" (maybe this video explains it).  But it's funny, because a few years back my folks were listening to audio of Alan Watts, my mom asking to be dropped at the bookstore to buy Kerouac's "Dharma Bums" with a copy of "Be Here Now" in her hand!  My folks are the right age to have done all of that the "first time around", but married at 19 & 20 years of age, and a baby (me) one year later probably didn't leave lots of room for relaxation, or philosophizing.  While I often find South Park completely offensive, I do think it is witty and my favorite episodes are when they deal with religion.  Well, I lent a lot of my favorite Watts to a boy (2 decades ago) along with a beautiful copy of the Tao de Ching.  I hope the boy enjoyed them.  Probably better he have them anyway, as he ended up in ethnomusicology studying Indian Music.  I'm still too type A for that.........Funny fact.  Perusing journals from grade school, I have quotes from Ramakrishna and extended rants about Phyliss Schlafly and how she was destroying women.  I haven't changed a bit.  I think the Up series is true.  Our core is developed by 7.  If you haven't seen this series, put it on your Netflix list.  It follows a group of kids and checks in with them every 7 years.  You see how they change, if they change, and you also realize that your life flies by so quickly, that you had better not always be thinking about the last measure.

Except for running.  Or in my case, slow jogging.  Just because maybe the zen of running isn't enough when you are wondering, how many miles did I go?  Maybe it was 5?  Or maybe it was 2 and it felt like 5.  That's why I was stoked when my new toy arrived.  Not thrilled about the label that said it contained substances known to cause cancer in the state of California, but I figured it I wasn't in California, then what the heck.

The Garmin 305.  A bulky watch that tells you that it takes a really friggin long time to burn off the 900 calories worth of pudding I just ate.  That's why I don't count calories.  I would be depressed all of the time, and would never get my dishes done.   Now I can't pretend I went 5 miles though, when I only went 2.  It tells me all sorts of cool stuff like my heart rate, mileage, pace..........




Recent eats (yeah, don't even try to run these off unless you are feeling particularly ambitious).  Fat & Sugar for morning time eats.  I'm terrible!

Bananas, Cashews, Stevia (or sweetener of choice).  Put in Vita-Mix with enough water to blend smooth.  Or, put in Food Processor, add small amount of water to created desired texture.  Yes, Super Phat.  Really, Super Fat.  I don't count calories.  But I don't eat refined foods generally either, so thinking there is some fiber in all of this!

Finished Breakfast.  

Goofball.  This guy literally followed my friend and I around a park, several times and people were asking if it was our cat.  He acted like a dog.  Then he preceded to scarf down 2 bowls of food from my neighbor's porch so she determined he was famished (I thought this too at the time).  Come to realize, he is just a glutton.  I had him quarantined in part of our house that had no air except a window unit.  The guy managed to pry himself out of the window and fell/jumped 3 very tall stories.  We thought he would be at the bottom, not doing very well.  He was nowhere to be found.  We thought he must have crawled off somewhere and was no longer with us.  On a whim, I went out that night to "walk", really to "look" for him.  When I went to the front door, he was meowing for food!  He seems very much like our dear Otis who passed away several years ago and it just makes you go hmmmmm.....Could it be Oatman?  If Oatman came to me now, would I turn him away?  Oatman is why we have a juicer more powerful than some people's cars (mainly our cars).


Saturday Update: We just got back from digging for hours and hours in a collapsed house in East St. Louis, trying to rescue puppies.  We were able to get one today.  One was MIA today and the other fled to an area that we never could have caught him/her.  Covered in soot.  Puppy will be named "Jois" pronounced "Joyce" but spelled "Jois" because she was hiding under the floor joists.  Many hours of shovelling with our hands, and big thanks to SuperHero Paul, who we called midway through & he met us there bearing lots of manly tools (like shovels which he claims were not invented by a chic).