apropos of anything

I only have five minutes, so here we go:

1. Being one of the millions of voices calling for change. He won the battle, and now it’s time to focus on the war.

2. The grand opening of the new Masjid Al-Farooq tomorrow. If it feels like we’ve been waiting years for this, it’s because we have. I would so love to go to jummah tomorrow, but the crowd and the timing makes it unlikely… but maybe I’ll stop by for ‘asr.

3. Finding the funny. Sometimes, when the door to the room next door simply won’t open, you just have to resign yourself to the worst… and then laugh at it.

There are cherries at the grocery store. I love cherries. I wanted to make a cherry pie, my very first. (NO INAPPROPRIATE JOKES. This is a PG blog.) Living in the South, I have limited access to cherries, which means the plethora of sour cherry pie recipes available on the internets does me no good at all.

Alas for the demise (possibly short-lived) of Tastespotting, I thought. If only I could search its archives for sweet cherry pie recipes. I could always Google, but that opens me up to results that are not from respected and reputable food blogs, and nobody wants to spend time rolling out crust for a mediocre pie. And yet, so much do I want to make a cherry pie that I thought, okay, I’ll Google… but first I should check Smitten Kitchen to see if maybe one of her recipes is adaptable.

Today, Deb posted this:

Sweet cherry pie. A pie made of sweet cherries, the very cherries that are currently available in such abundance at my neighborhood grocery stores. Hers looks too pretty to eat; mine will not be nearly so pretty, but it is entirely possible I will spend this week making not dinner, but pie, pie, and more pie: sweet cherry, strawberry, and summer berry. After all, berries are only in season for a few short weeks…