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That’s what this one makes me feel. Lalita, by The Love Language. Bouncing all over the house to this one. They don’t have a video yet but the link is for their myspace page. Click and listen to Lalita.

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Easy to veganize because many traditional Turkish recipes don’t call for meat anyway.

Filed by cynthia rockwell at 9:15 pm under Food
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oh oh, how you are my hero
oh oh, how you’re never here though
remember times when you put me on your shoulders
how I wish it was forever you would hold us
right now I’m too young to know
how in the future it will affect me when you go
you could have had it all
you, me, and mum y`know
anything was possible

i wont be the lonely one
sitting on my own and sad
a fifty year old
reminiscing what i had

i wont be the lonely one
sitting on my own and sad

forget your dad, he’s gone
forget your dad, he’s gone

he’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone

oh oh oh oh (repeat)

all I wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
for you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
how I could’ve been yours, and you’d be mine
it could’ve been me and you until the end of time
do what you want, when you want
be as fucking insincere as you can
what kind of way is that to treat your wife
to see your son on Saturdays
what way is that to live your life?

I wont be the lonely one
sitting on my own and sad
a fifty year old
reminiscing what I had

I wont be the lonely one
sitting on my own and sad

forget your dad, he’s gone

he’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone

oh oh oh oh (repeat)

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Someone asked me yesterday how the vegan thing was coming along and it reminded me that I hadn’t updated the blog in awhile. I am still mostly vegan, but ran into a problem when I kept getting canker sores. I haven’t had one of those in like 15 years, but within two months of being vegan I’d had two, each taking two freaking weeks to go away. Suspicious of the timing, I googled for a connection to veganism, and found lots of others have the same problem after giving up meat. And I asked a vegetarian friend and she said “Oh yeah I get those all the time.” Hm.  All evidence is anecdotal but those things are so excruciatingly painful that it was worth it for me to add a bit of meat back into my diet to avoid it. About once a week I’m eating some fish or chicken and this is entirely unscientific but so far I’ve had no recurrence. Apparently canker sores are a bit of a scientific mystery and no one knows what causes them, but they suspect a B12 deficiency, B12 being found exclusively in animal products. So, that’s that. Still mostly vegan and definitely still no dairy, and the world would be a better place if everyone ate meat just once a week.

Speaking of which, today I made a lovely bruschetta out of some campari tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and some gorgeous-smelling fresh basil from my aerogarden. Yum.

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