3D paper swan

My daughter's new project.

requires a lot of patience and love of art.

if anybody wants to give it a try

here is the link

Rosette/ Sugar waffles

few months back i am looking for a recipe online and unexpectedly saw a video about the long forgotten favorite Kerala delicacy of my teenage years.

Achappam or challaguttulu- gulabi poolu in telugu.

after watching the video, i thought these are easy to make and saved it and searched online for the mold to buy but couldn't find it. so i put that thought to

"what to buy when i visit India list"  

and forgot about it.

recently my husband wants to go long drive on country side and 
visit balloon fest along the way. 
 
my son is ready, me and my daughter are back and forth and joined them at the last minute. like something inside guided me that i must go. so i did.

me and my son walking around the field and an old lady walking with Achappam in her hands!!!!

 i must be hallucinating, and thought, do i really wanted them that bad? 
i ask my son to make sure she really walking with them and to confirm i am not hallucinating.

He thought i lost my mind, 
 guess what!! i thought i did too kiddo, 
but he conformed she is walking with bag full of achppam!

enthusiastically i started walking the opposite direction where she is coming from and Bam!
At the rural Ohio, in a Balloon festival, i found Achappam but they call them sugar waffles!

 

they taste same, crunchy and semi sweet, awesome!
but in India they don't dust sugar powder on them.
if they make here, they sell molds too right, now i know the name sugar waffles and searched online again, but the original name is Rosette.
these pastries are Swedish and Norwegian origin. 

Rosette recipes are popular in the United States among families with Scandinavian ancestry.
 
what a small beautiful world we have as a human species. 
and what a coincidence is that!
that's why earlier i felt that i must go to festival at the last minute?
still unbelievable experience.

synchronicity at it's best.

{written by me}

what is normal and abnormal?

normal people? abnormal person?

who gives these labels to whom?

what is this commotion between normality and abnormality.

who decides these label?

if a person reached out of your expectation or your vision  you call that person abnormal?

a person may be out of box thinker and you try your best to drag that person back in to it,

since it is too much for adjudicator to even try to experience that out of box journey, they simply label a thinker rather than becoming part of it.

Some things should not be taken literally, its about a simple concept, people are basically sheep and there is so much comfort to be part of a herd, but not all, some go in a different direction. I understand this without having to articulate...

It is all a state of mind.

out of box thinkers always abnormal. because they think.

Its all about honest choice.

be honest to yourself and your choices. 

that's all it matters at the end.

at the end no one is going to be there, but yourself.  
some take hundreds of lifetimes to get it. 
for some that understanding is happening
NOW. 

meanwhile.....
 "The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."

..............F. Scott Fitzgerald

{written by me}