{"id":339247,"date":"2025-12-11T13:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/bread\/some-kind-of-relaxed-and-beautiful-thing-alchemy-bread\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:47:28","slug":"some-kind-of-relaxed-and-beautiful-thing-alchemy-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=339247","title":{"rendered":"Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing&#8230; \u2014 Alchemy Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\">\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hey everyone, <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019m out of office this week for our yearly end of July vacation celebrating my (40th) and my son\u2019s (14th) birthdays. No bread this week on Thursday, but we\u2019ll be back at it next week with the August Bread and, apparently, a new school year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019m going to simply leave you with a favorite poem here where I typically write my prose. Chew on that a little if you don\u2019t mind and I\u2019ll catch up with you next week when I\u2019m back behind the baker\u2019s bench. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">-B.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Dogfish<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">by Mary Oliver<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing<br \/>kept flickering in with the tide<br \/>and looking around.<br \/>Black as a fisherman&#8217;s boot,<br \/>with a white belly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile<br \/>under the perfectly round eyes and above the chin,<br \/>which was rough<br \/>as a thousand sharpened nails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And you know<br \/>what a smile means,<br \/>don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I wanted the past to go away, I wanted<br \/>to leave it, like another country; I wanted<br \/>my life to close, and open<br \/>like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song<br \/>where it falls<br \/>down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;<br \/>I wanted<br \/>to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">whoever I was, I was<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">alive<br \/>for a little while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">It was evening, and no longer summer.<br \/>Three small fish, I don&#8217;t know what they were,<br \/>huddled in the highest ripples<br \/>as it came swimming in again, effortless, the whole body<br \/>one gesture, one black sleeve<br \/>that could fit easily around<br \/>the bodies of three small fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Also I wanted<br \/>to be able to love. And we all know<br \/>how that one goes,<br \/>don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Slowly<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">the dogfish tore open the soft basins of water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">You don&#8217;t want to hear the story<br \/>of my life, and anyway<br \/>I don&#8217;t want to tell it, I want to listen<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And anyway it&#8217;s the same old story &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>a few people just trying,<br \/>one way or another,<br \/>to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Mostly, I want to be kind.<br \/>And nobody, of course, is kind,<br \/>or mean,<br \/>for a simple reason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And nobody gets out of it, having to<br \/>swim through the fires to stay in<br \/>this world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And look! look! look! I think those little fish<br \/>better wake up and dash themselves away<br \/>from the hopeless future that is<br \/>bulging toward them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">*<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">And probably,<br \/>if they don&#8217;t waste time<br \/>looking for an easier world,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">they can do it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, I\u2019m out of office this week for our yearly end of July vacation celebrating my (40th) and my son\u2019s (14th) birthdays. No bread this week on Thursday, but we\u2019ll be back at it next week with the August Bread and, apparently, a new school year. 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