Comments on: Smorgasbord Surprise*

By: Tanya Geisler - Your best you. Starting now.

Tanya Geisler - Your best you. Starting now. — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:08:29 +0000

[...] are pretty cheap and we knew we’d have fun regardless of the outcome. (Am really working on this non-attachment stuff). I did my thing on one side and Greg did his on the other…and then we met sort of in the [...]

By: Cindy Morefield

Cindy Morefield — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:41:39 +0000

Thanks for checking out my work, Tanya!

By: Jill Chandler

Jill Chandler — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:06:54 +0000

Wow! That sounds like quite a challenge- and so inspiring. Letting go, trusting your partner, and being OK with the outcome sounds like a lesson we could all transfer to differnet aspects of our lives.

Thanks for the read. Looking forward to what your next collaboration brings:)
J

By: admin

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:19:47 +0000

@Dyana – you are much more than a stop, honey. You’ve been a traveling companion since you issued the first 40 day challenge. Talk about walking the talk!

@Greg – takes a special kind of man to stand by, witness and applaud such shenanigans (not to mention cleaning up the literal and metaphorical mess!)

@Sharon – a) yes, yes it does. b) you may want to ramp it up and do it with a lower budget…and a time limit on shopping tends to get the juices flowing too c) maybe banana pizza is the power pellet mathemagicians need to do their, well, mathemagics!

@Cathy – thank you so much for your enthusiasm…and I just went to your site…your work is STUNNING.

@Julianne – thank you for your comment and the EXCELLENT tip. What a great metaphor for life…what if we could wash over a situation with a new colour? It also makes me think of the idea that there is 2% truth in every lie and 2% of a lie in every truth. Finding that 2% in a perspective can be very rewarding…including learning to love a colour heretofore unappreciated (BTW – you may want to check out @Cathy’s work…she loves seems to love orange too!

By: Julianne Fuchs-Musgrave

Julianne Fuchs-Musgrave — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:18:13 +0000

I loved this. I do have to admit that chili in the eye–Tabasco hurts almost as much–brings that concept of “non-attachment to the outcome” into reality. This reminds me of an instruction I once received in a painting class. “If you are truly stuck–paint over what you’ve done with a wash of a color you don’t like.”
Who knew I’d love orange!!

By: Cindy Morefield

Cindy Morefield — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:00:43 +0000

Tanya! This is so awesome – what a fantastic collaboration, learning experience, way to play and get unstuck. I am so inspired! And hungry.
(And yes, Dyana is incredibly gifted.)

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:45:01 +0000

a. don’t be afraid of the chocolate sausage sounds kinky.
b. what a fun game to play! will totally try this with my bestie when next we meet.
d. the secret to non-attachment/ opening your mind in the kitchen is more wine! or just call tom. he’s been known to put banana on pizza (just for example).

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:44:14 +0000

Chocolate sausage will likely never be found on the menu at Nota Bene or Canoe (well, maybe Canoe if it’s a maple-smoked sausage from a little pig farm in northern Ontario and a specialty chocolate from a dairy farm in Quebec).

But, those restos will never see the kind of unique inspiration found in our kitchen last weekend. That was a special kinda fun (chili eyes aside, of course).

By: Dyana Valentine

Dyana Valentine — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:26:48 +0000

You two are truly WALKING your talk by taking the chocolate sausage road–there’s sweet and savory, tough and true love and I’m honored to be a stop on your traipse. My favorite part of this post is: Playing In The Middle Range is Weak–I’d go one further and say that the middle range truly weakens you and those around you. Go BIG, folks.