Your Vocabulary and the Irish Land Wars

RCS Posts vocabulary and governance: The Irish Land Wars are the sources of the introduction of this powerfully useful word into the English language. 

 

                The Irish Land wars are an example of cause and effect in action. In 1850 Irish persons formed the Tenant Right League to demand reform to the land law of Ireland; a law not of democratic origin. This organization and demand was followed by about 40 years of unrest in Ireland and to some learning and reform.

                      Check the Home Rule League of Ireland online. Doing so could contribute to your political education. Check out Gandhi on the use of resistance and organization. Well reasoned and presented protests have been a powerful social power. The Irish National League may be interesting to check out, but may prove complicated.

                One thing to learn is that you are responsible for ruling yourself. In Ireland self-rule has been called Home Rule. It does seem best to begin at home. You can blame your father, wife, mayor, or President, but that is a waste of energy and undemocratic. Where you are concerned you are

                The word in question was the name of a landlord so disliked by his tenants that he was denied labor to harvest crops, as well as refusal of services to shops, laundries, and other facilities. The social excommunication of Mr. Boycott, led to his name being used to describe it. Boycotts have worked well as a nonviolent protest measure.

                Please don't boycott these blogs.

 

Test questions:

* What is an example of a nonviolent protest measure that you know of?

*  Is refusing your labour violent?

* What's democratic?

* Why has often been said that it is best to begin at home?

* Why haven't you checked "responsibility" online?

                When you have really tried to answer all these questions you have passed this test.

                                                                    RCS

Using Herbs

RCS Posts:using Herbs You can benefit by using herbs and condiments to enhance the flavor of fruits, cheeses, and meats.

 

                Use herbs to provide new, interesting, and delicious flavors to foods. When you find yourself in position to do so, do give it a try. Herbs add rare and valuable nutrients to your dining. The savor they add can amaze. Below are some ways some herbs have been successfully matched with specific foods. also below are suggestions to help you get started.

Experiment with the following combinations:

Beef: basil leaves, mustard, black pepper, bay leaves, chives, garlic, red chilies, cumin, marjoram, savory, horseradish with fatty roasts .....

Lamb: rosemary, garlic, marjoram, oregano, mint .....

Pork: coriander, cumin, garlic, ginger, savory, thyme, cloves with ham .....

Cheese: basil, chervil, curry, dill, fennel, garlic, marjoram, parsley .....

Fruit: anise, cinnamon, coriander, cloves, verbena, mint, rose, geranium, sweet cicely, fennel .....

 

Suggestions:

~ It is often good to begin with a recipe.

~ Herbs are often potent, they can be costly; use them sparingly, at first.

~Experiment with one herb at a time and on yourself before offering your creation to a friend.

~ Buy herbs one at a time and try them one at a time.

~ Make little, or big, slits in your roast and put selected herbs into those slits to cook.

~ Start with herbs mentioned most often here and elsewhere.

Bon appetit!

                                                            RCS

Woman and Girl

RCS Posts:Understanding a Memory

 

                 She was young, about his age. She was speaking with an older woman she obviously cared for, but she was saying with some vehemence, "You just don't care."

                The older woman seemed truly fond of the girl. Though she may have felt some hurt at the girl's words, she answered in kindly tones. He remembered what she said. She had said, "I have come to see that  many things do not matter much, and that most things don't matter at all."

 

                The girl answered, still with some feeling, "You don't care about anything."

                The woman answered, a bit as though she were she were speaking to herself as much as to the girl, "I once knew an old gentleman who did not believe in"things."

                After a few seconds the older woman continued,"Your feelings matter to me very much, but I am not responsible for them."

                                                        

                                                            RCS