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POPSpoem: "A Strong Woman" by Marge Piercy More: A strong woman is a woman bleeding inside. A strong woman is a woman making herself strong every morning while her teeth loosen and her back throbs. Every baby, a tooth, midwives used to say, and now every battle a scar. A strong woman is a mass of scar tissue that aches when it rains and wounds that bleed when you bump them and memories that get up in the night and pace in boots to and fro. A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail. What comforts her is others loving her equally for the strength and for the weakness from which it issues, lightning from a cloud. More below:
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POPSBurial Coffin of Ghana - Pic Sorry... We have to increase our prices as electricity and fuel in Ghana have gone up. Some things now costs double what they did a year ago and so our artisans are also increasing their prices **
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POPSThe Cook's Thesaurus Thanks Bignosemousie. I was looking up two ingredients from your recipe (bulgur & cremini mushrooms) when I happened upon this wonderful site.
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POPSMashed Cauliflower Has anyone here tried mashed cauliflower? I've heard a lot of people talking about it, but I've never tried it.