In a moving journal entry from Texas, Ara reflects on Christmas and wealth, and makes some simple, hearty bread. Wonderful stuff.

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Happily, Sarah "Train Wreck" Palin is continuing her good work. I'm not sure if it speaks to her "maverickyness", or just "dumbassitude". I'm going with the latter.

To quote a YouTube commenter:

The passing of Prop 8 here in California weighs heavily on my mind. I just can't reconcile it. The inane, short-sighted, small-minded perspective that it took for so many of the people I share the streets with to say "Yeah, I'm for that. Fuck "those" people!" So sad that we are still so unenlightened.

I enjoyed this set of photos very much.

Ara, aka BeemerChef, and his dog Spirit, have a wonderful site called "The Oasis of my Soul", a motorcycle travel journal with heavy doses of photography and food thrown in. I've been enjoying it for some time now, so I'm adding his feed to the new site here.