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This morning, to the music of Cubanismo, I sliced two small onions and a red pepper, and sauteed them in just enough olive oil. (I've been using too much, and have instigated a successful effort to cut back even though it entails more stirring) Then I cut up three small tomatoes and tossed them in too. The tomatoes were Early Girls grown in our Los Angeles rooftop garden, and I have been watering them each morning while gazing, in the cool morning air, upon the gigantic billboards of one gigantically bad movie after another -- although the movie posters have now been replaced by posters showing gigantic headshot photos of radio personalities. Perhaps the shift in advertising focus from movies to radio is responsible for the decline in moviegoing? After sprinkling in some turmeric, spicy japanese pepper, curry powder and ground black pepper, I cut half a block of firm tofu into cubes and mixed it in for another 2 or 3 minutes, before adding a huge handful of baby spinach greens and covering the frying pan so they would wilt down in.

McGee & Stuckey's Bountiful Container [buy at amazon] . All about container gardening, a Megnut-inspired purchase, now come to fruition.

Recipe from If the Buddhha came to Dinner: how to nourish your body to awaken your spirit [buy at amazon] . As disappointing as this book is from a nourishment perspective, it has given me this extremely serviceable breakfast recipe. (The tomatoes from the rooftop garden were my addition).

Today a bike-riding shopper wished me a "Happy Solstice". And so it is! She was well aware of the earth, as we all should be. For my part, I have checked the 2nd edition of "Global Warming: the complete briefing" out of the library. The third edition, which was just published last year, adds over 100 pages and ten years more experience with climate change.

If you're interested in the climate of Earth, I think there's probably no better introduction than this charts-and-graphs-filled book. Easy to read, hard to refute, not alarmist by any means (but maybe I should wait until I've actually read the 3rd edition, rather than the older 2nd!) Paddle your kayak on down through the rising waters (if you live near the ocean) or saddle your dustbowl desert burro (if you live inland) to amazon.com and grab a copy of Global Warming: the complete briefing [buy at amazon] by Sir John Houghton. I guarantee you'll be better-informed on greenhouse gases and the global carbon cycle.