Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:    spice

The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?
~Shana Alexander

It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and spices of convenience, materialism, insecurity, and fear. They also have something called frosting. It seems to represent how they spend almost all the seconds of their existence in doing superficial, artificial, temporary, pleasant-tasting, nice appearing projects and spend very few actual seconds of their lives developing their eternal beingness.
~Marlo Morgan

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be ‘put in a book,’ no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.
~Gertrude Atherton

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Whenever I go out with other married couples, I like to bring along a single crackhead. Just to spice things up.
~Chris Rock

 

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Exercise Prompt for 12/06:  key

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Women … have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which we are made. We are the nurturers, the soothers, the peacemakers, and the steadiers of rocked boats.
~Harriet Lerner

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.
~Bethany Hamilton

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man’s approval.
~Helen Rowland

You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.
~Rumi

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Posted from the Grove

They have hot peppers in Louisiana. Little red devils with fire in their skin and hell in their seeds.
~James Street

There were green infernos and green terrors, yellow jackets and yellow furies, red torrids and red frenzies.
~James Street

This is the kind of plant that endears itself to a teenage boy. These weren’t vegetables, they were weapons! And it was legal to grow them.
~James Gorman

Hot? Those things? They are for children. For nursing children. And furies are for growing boys. They’ll wake you up all right, and put fire in your blood. But listen, my friend, I’m a hot-pepper man. And when I say hot-pepper man, I mean hot-pepper man.
~James Street

Spicy food lovers are pyro-gourmaniacs.
~Author unknown

Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of jalapeños. What you do today might burn your butt tomorrow.
~Larry the Cable Guy

I’m sorry, was this chicken seasoned with molten lava?
~Steve Franks & Anupam Nigam

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~Great Big Story:  What Pizza Is Like Around the World   (16:29)   7 very different pizzas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK2RvhZmp7Q

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~Spice Tree:  Kerala   (2:40)   travelogue escape, silent but for music
https://vimeo.com/154826182

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~Polyfjord:  Pendulum Lights   (3:05)   hypnotic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ICFmAr_DQ

 

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Every job in the world has some built-in boredom. No man can stay excited about something every minute he is doing it. Routine is as necessary to life as water is to beer; it is the base that holds the flavors and spices together.
~E L Konigsburg

I think I would just get bored to be honest. Ask any human being if they want to stay in exactly the same job for thirty years they say “No!” The ultimate cliché, ‘Variety is the spice of life’, is sadly true.
~Doc Brown

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.
~David Levithan

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.
~Jacques Torres

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.
~Daniel Gilbert

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
~Phyllis McGinley

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VIDEO:

Stress is the spice of life.
~Hans Selye

Flirting with death is the spice of life.
~Margaret M Lock

Danger is the spice of life and you’ve got to take a risk now and then … that’s what makes life worthwhile.
~Anthony Hopkins

Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.
~Jane Wilson-Howarth

I wouldn’t give a tinker’s damn for a man who isn’t sometimes afraid. Fear’s the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.
~Daniel Boone

Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won’t feel bored.
~Andrew Bernstein

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Three-Spice Cure for Bland
~Omeleto:  Double Vision   (14:43)   eye of the beholder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiRmFJYiLw

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~Omeleto:  Time Out   (10:08)   roundabout to an answer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAVCg3wtrM

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~Omeleto:  It’s Your Call   (16:57)    realizing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0qLnFaK3EY&t=8s

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~BBC: The Vampiric Council – a murder trial   (8:44)   camp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmNU2t1Q-AM

 

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Jealousy is like a hot pepper. Use it mildly, and you add spice to the relationship. Use too much of it and it can burn.
~Ayala Malakh-Pines

Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
~Lord Byron

A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
~Nicolas Chamfort

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
~Tom Robbins

“I mean she’s Cleopatra… shouldn’t she and Antony have known better? They were so different…”
“Variety is the spice of life”
“And from a thousand miles apart?”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder”
~Ally Carter

Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn’t be exchanged for anything.
~Paulo Coelho

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MUSIC:

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it’s like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.
~Devendra Banhart

I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It’s a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
~Abigail Washburn

I feel like a hit will come whenever it does, but I don’t want to sit in a studio trying to figure out the magic formula and mixing spices and trying to come up with the perfect song.
~Jacob Whitesides

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We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout…
~Billy Edd Wheeler & Jerry Leiber

A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater,
wants to spice my chili, I think I’ll let her.
~Toby Keith

Variety, as they say, is the spice of life. For me, that counts tenfold in the world of music!
~Jason Graves

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~Barry Gonen:  Scarborough Fair   (3:33)   portrait gallery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fekKJ7OdrNY

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~Spice Girls:  Too Much   (3:50)   more eyes, fewer curves, less juvenile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4VoZ6afztc

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~Spice Girls:  Denying   (4:40)   all grown up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dqxoyF3M0o

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~Spice Diana:  Yo love    (3:38)   the world over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-3u4-pT1E

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Cinnamon Girl: Three takes on the same title, different spice

~Lana Del Rey:  Cinnamon Girl   (5:00)   then the story kicks in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IasKxlfKeU

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~Prince:  Cinnamon Girl   (4:06)   not salt, not pepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGjTc7iIJbg

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~Neil Young & Crazy Horse:  Cinnamon Girl   (4:43)   the audience this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMMUcHHD6ZY

 

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I’m bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
~David Bowie

Every time I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.
~Eddie Vedder

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
~Mick Jagger

But let me ask you this though, first and foremost: who’s your favorite Spice Girl? Mine is Sporty Spice and I’ll tell you why. You know what? She might not be as aesthetically pleasant as the rest but she’ll do a backflip and steal your heart.
~Janeane Garofalo

More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I’m married to a footballer.
~Victoria Beckham

People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl.
~Victoria Beckham

I’m one of five girls in the whole entire world that can honestly say I’m a Spice Girl. I’m still proud of that.
~Melanie Brown

We were the Spice Boys.
~George Harrison

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Dark Side of the Horse

 

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The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn’t hot. I mean, if you’re going to text me every day, you haven’t seen me for months and you’re trying to seduce me, you’d better spice up that text and make it more exciting than ‘How was your day? I hope you’re having a beautiful one.’ Sadly, I haven’t been doing a lot of kissing lately.
~Chloe Sevigny

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
~Johnny Carson

We have something called naked Sundays … You have to keep marriage alive, spice it up … We don’t need to go anywhere, we’re just with each other. We do everything naked. We cook naked.
~Christina Aguilera

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.
~Anais Nin

Variety is the spice of love.
~Helen Rowland

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.
~Bette Davis

The plural of spouse is spice.
~Christopher Morley

Nothing spices up one’s sex life like having a partner.
~Jacob M Appel

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Sandwich outdoors isn’t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite.
~Ray Bradbury

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
~Jim Davis

Pumpkin spice lattes are eggnog for morning people.
~John Oliver

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.
~Plautus

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Breakfast
Painter unknown

 

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Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.
~Walter Raleigh

The biggest problem with Bill’s food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt.
~Marian Burros

Why would these English explorers search for these spices, yet never use them in their food?
~Jon Stewart

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they’re trying to keep out.
~Calvin Trillin

A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can’t live like that.
~Jill Scott

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Omari: Hey, Dad, you’ve got to taste what we just did. It’s actually good.
Devyn: That is good. What did you two do?
Omari: No idea. We just added spices until it didn’t suck anymore.
~Sherrilyn Kenyon

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I’ve never been properly hugged since.
~Linda Ellerbee

Anything is possible when your man smells like Old Spice and not a lady. I’m on a horse.
~Isaiah Mustafa

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@Writers Platform

Go, little book, and wish to all
Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
A house with lawns enclosing it,
A living river by the door,
A nightingale in the sycamore!
~Robert Louis Stevenson

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.
~Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
~George R R Martin

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
~Ray Bradbury

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Glass Table:

~Mary_Helen:  The Land

She was beautiful and sweet
and as bare ass as can be
with a gleam in her eye
she knew what she wanted it to be.

With lots of hard work
she sweated and slaved
she went every day
she couldn’t stay away.

With a few items here
and a few items there
she could see in her eye
it was starting to appear.

The hope in her heart
the look on her face
she could see the future
of her own special place.

With a well to flow water
and a sewer for guess what
the trees were put in
and the buildings popped up.

With chickens and ducks
then came goats, pigs, and cows
the real work started
with a garden to plow.

There were slaughters and parties
family gatherings galore
it was never a dull moment
with someone at the door.

But as days go bye
and the years roll on
before we know it
we’re faded and gone.

So lays a desolate place
with no one around
just maybe a few ghost
will wonder and roam.

Being all burned down
with nothing to see
the trees fighting for life
producing their seeds.

But she’ beautiful and sweet
and bare ass as can be
with a gleam in my eye
I can make her what I want it to be…

 

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
~Walter Benjamin

It is crazy even to ask what creativity is. It would be just as useful to interview a caraway plant in your garden and ask: “How did you decide to be a spice?”
~Eeva Kilpi

 

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Exercise Prompt:  spice

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If by any chance a playwright wishes to express a political opinion or a moral opinion or a philosophy, he must be a good enough craftsman to do it with so much spice of entertainment in it that the public get the message without being aware of it.
~Noel Coward

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
~George Bernard Shaw

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
~Joan Aiken

Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.
~Ben Yagoda

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The Exercise:

 

~BarTalk:

thanks giving

smokey blue of the far mountains
green sprawl of the farmed valley
voluptuous shapes
grey white shades of spirit
people the skies, move like herds
clouds driven, whipped by the wind

sharp barks, dogs in the distance
birds fly by, screech and cry
two sing nearby
bulls full of bellow empty themselves
mothers and heifers move closer
mooing and lowing in concert

a cackle of hens, barnyard politics
a rooster with something to say
nearby a radio plays
the voice of humans and someone laughs
a taste of life, the spice of one day
a portrait, a heart breaks at the beauty

call it gratitude
call it thanks giving

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bit by the sea

colorful language spiced by the sea
salty old sailor peppering me
tales warning of sirens’ and trickery
stories not squaring with history
yet these the reasons
my love for the sea

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hype

foreign lands, exotic new spices
flattering tastes, blandishing rices
saffron gold, exorbitant prices
pirated treasure, brandishing vices
shortage on shelves, marketing crisis
much in demand defining what nice is

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5-7-5

my spice is your sin
my door’s open, you closed in
one life each, begin
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rust colored sunset
reds make it splendiferous
orange peel for spice
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strife, the spice of life
fixed and fated slice of life
rife with facts of life

 

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Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.
~Ruta Sepetys

Being weird adds spice to life. Having weird friends just deepens the flavor.
~Jayelle Cochran

I’m afraid I couldn’t like him without a spice of human naughtiness.
~Louisa May Alcott

The world loves a spice of wickedness.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
~Seneca the Younger

It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting.
~W Somerset Maugham

Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.
~Marcel Proust

His voice was cloves and nightingales, it took us to spice markets in the Celebs, we drifted with him on a houseboat beyond the Coral Sea. We were like cobras following a reed flute.
~Janet Fitch

Painters used red like spice.
~Derek Jarman

When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup – important for richness of flavor but still not quite the main ingredient. The past is over. It can’t and shouldn’t be reclaimed. All we ever have is now anyway.
~Alyson Noel

 

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