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| Gluten-Free Goddess chicken chili with white beans. |
And reached for a pickle.
Even after watching every episode of Friday Night Lights, I still don't understand a down. Football is a mystery. Back fields in motion. Penalties! Off sides. Snap. Blitz. Gotta love the lingo.
It's a language alluringly foreign to me.
Like math.
Or for some, perhaps it's akin to say, abstract expressionism.
Thing is, I get negative space. In my bones. This is my territory. Now you're talkin' my language. I appreciate analogous color. Gesture. Tooth. Value verses tone. The sensual beauty of surface. The seduction of action. The painter's hand. Unprimed and primed. Gels, and viscosity. Transparency and opacity. Cool against warm. Lost and found edges.
Though it's not all yin yang, a wrestle of opposites.
As in football- and life- painting is a focus of expression, sometimes true and authentic, and sometimes disappointingly off the mark.
Like that Ravens field goal.
We try. We sometimes miss. But what matters is- we make the effort. And that is all we can do. We kick the ball. We brush wet paint. We string words into a lyric. We make chili.
And sometimes?
We get a winner.
And if not?
Tomorrow is another day.
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. You know, the one with a pigskin ball and helmeted men in shiny tights. Throw all the ingredients in a Crock Pot
and go root for your favorite tight end. Make a 
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