We love a good winter soup for lunch. This is one I made up some years back and need to make it again soon!

1 lb  mushrooms , chopped

1 large sweet onion, chopped

4-5 cloves garlic, minced

Combine and cook in microware 6 min or so stirring every couple min or until tender

6 T butter -Melt in 8 qt sauce pot until bubbly

Add 6 T flour, or arrowroot or tapioca,  and cook 3 minutes while stirring.

Then stir in:

lots of fresh cracked pepper and enough salt to taste

3 nice pinches nutmeg

Slowly stir in 5 C chicken broth to the butter mixture.

Cook until thickens a bit, then add mushroom mixture and stir to heat through.

Just before serving stir in:

1C half and half

Top with 4T chopped chives

Have fun with this. Use different kinds of mushrooms, seasonings, etc. to make it your own.

Serve with some good toasted sourdough or crackers 🙂

Thinking about plants, strength comes from and through the roots. Nourishment comes through the roots.

Some plants have very deep roots going way down into the soil. Others live on the surface because there isn’t much depth to their soil. Some don’t have any soil and grow in the air wherever they might be!

Sometimes a plant isn’t in the right soil for it’s roots to develop, It might need to be uprooted and placed in a better spot for it to grow, develop and produce more.

A cactus will drown in too watery a soil. Heath and Heather plants like rocky dry soils – even windy slopes. Willow tree roots do best in very moist creekside areas. Clematis vines do best with shaded cooler root soils. Asparagus and rhubarb roots thrive in rich organic soil.

How about us different peoples? What type soils do our roots do best in?

• Where are your roots now?
• What are you rooted in or to?
• Do your roots need new soil?
• Do they need more fertile soil?
• Are they cramped?
• Do they need room to expand?
• Do they need to be trimmed back for more top growth?
• Do they need to be repotted into a new pot?
• Do they need more sunshine or are they getting too much?
• Are they getting enough water, or too much?

It seems everything in creation has similar types and needs.

What type and needs do you have to flourish?

Are you able to meet them?

Look at your roots and examine your situation. What type soil do your roots require? What do you need to do to help them?

Immerse – ‘Involve yourself deeply in a particular activity or interest’

Let’s choose to become completely involved in something in our lives.

Why?

You will learn more about whatever it is you’re immersed in and you’ll learn more about yourself…what you do or don’t like, what you can or can’t do, what you’re willing or not willing to do.

Pick an area, any area, that might even slightly interest you and read about it. Talk with others about it. Learn more about it.

If you find you like it, keep learning, studying and applying yourself. Help to do or make something for others in the ‘field of your immersion’.

Find out where it might take you.

Maybe you could teach someone else about what you’ve learned.

The fun is in the planning, the learning, and the doing.

It might be a new hobby or learning a new language, or public speaking, drawing, crochet, cooking, growing plants, refinishing furniture…

Dive into something new and have fun with it!

Let’s get started!