But it feels so good I can’t stop…I’m experimenting with the Google Page Builder app. You can visit my google pages here: http://zdelate.googlepages.com/ if you are so inclined. I actually can’t imagine why anybody would want to at this junction. It’s slim pickins on there now. Unless you want to recruit me for that dream job. Or you are stalking me.
Help – I'm becoming more and more emeshed in Google-Mania!
| August 30, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Wild World of the Internet |
It's all good – Macrobiotic Kale Recipe & Forgiveness
| July 7, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Organic Diet Eating |
I admit that I can have a temper. I’m improving on the intensity and frequency with which I react though. Much, much better. But like us all, I still have my moments. That would be regarding the rant I left on the new moon (June 25th) about my neighbor tattle tailing on me. We’ve since made amends. She even said I could harvest and eat the kale she planted down in the garden below. Ok, now she’s my best friend. Kale is the most direct way to my heart. For those of you not in the know, KALE, a garden green, is ultra nutritious containing even iron (something most women need more of). A macrobiotic diet trick I learned makes KALE irresistibly delicious. If you want to know how too, read on. It’s super easy and super yummy.
Delicious Way to Eat Kale Greens
Ingredients:
Organic Kale, Eden “Ume Plum Vinegar”, Organic olive oil, Eden “Gomasio with seaweed flakes” (optional)
- Buy or grow some fresh organic kale.
- Soak the leaves in clean water for 15 minutes to over an hour if you wish to get the parasites and other gritty stuff off the leaves
- Remove the kale leaves from the soaking bowl, rinse them again quickly with clean water (this is where a water filter by the sink comes in really handy).
- Put all the leaves in the same direction bunched together and lay them on your cutting board.
- Using a large sharp, non-serated knife, chop the kale greens. I start at the top of the leaves and work down toward the stems. I personally like the stems – they are rich in the vitamins, and I find them tasty when prepared along with the leaves. So I cut horizontally all the way down until the stems get gnarly – usually about the last inch or two – I compost the last of the ends.
- Once I’ve got all the kale in strips and have removed the gnarly stems from the cutting board, I make vertical cuts through the strips, effectively turning the kale into kinda sorta square pieces. But nothing near perfect. That’s just the idea.
- Depending on how much kale I am cooking, I will fill the bottom of the pot (saucepans are great) with clean water up to about 1/4 inch. Then I put all the cut kale into the pot and add a little more water if I need to – just so the entire bottom of the pot is covered in water and the bottom kale greens are resting in the water.
- Put the lid on the pot and the pot on the stove and turn the heat to medium. Let the kale steam in the water for about 15 minutes – but watch it the first few times because your stove or conditions might be different. It’s not unusual if I put too little water to catch the kale just before its burned (or not – oops), but ideally you’ll have some green colored water and some cooked down kale leaves. DO NOT Overcook! It leaches all the vitamins out of your kale dinner and maybe kills enzymes / healthy critters.
- Maybe get a forkful of the steamed greens to taste them for tenderness. If its all good to you, it’s time to fix the kale up to code here:
- Sprinkle the olive oil across the greens, then the ume vinegar splashed across the kale greens. Then, sprinkle the gomasio over the greens – YUMMY!! You never tasted kale like this ever.
Forgiveness is sweet and gets easier with practice ; )
Life's a witch and then you fly
| June 25, 2006 | Posted by Zen under MoFos |
Hypocrites need to wake up…to learn to walk the talk…Who is a hypocrite? Well, most of us, to some degree or another. Including myself, I even read an article that accused the Dalai Llama of being a hypocrite. So take this post with a grain of salt…I am kinda venting on specific types of hypocrites. Those ones that act like they are all new age-y “conscious” when they are truly as self-centered and spoiled as the rest of ‘em.
Who could incur the wrath of Z? People that give my son an attitude he does NOT deserve.
Apparently she’s been feeling annoyed by my son being a 4 year old. That isn’t even the problem – I get that part. It’s how she handled the situation that left me bawling my eyes out. Instead of just speaking to me about it, she chose to get the landlord involved before she ever said 1 word to me. I feel that if she had a problem with me – the first or second time some incident bothered her, she could have walked her butt over to my door, knocked on it and said “Hey. I’m having this problem, can we fix it?”
But No. Cold ass, resentment wallowing (that’s cancer in the works to hold onto resentment by the way – that is why I am blogging this rant – so I can release these feelings constructively 
) BEOTCH goes and tells the landlord that it is this extreme situation … when she has said not ONE word (and many opportunities she has had) to me about a problem.
So the landlord calls me and says that if this situation is not corrected, I’m out in 30 days. Out of nowhere. Gee, thanks.
This is NOT Aloha. This is Haole mentality and I pray it doens’t overrun my sweet island paradise. I can’t believe this neighbor is a teacher of school children! Scary – she doesn’t even consider how her inability to communicate could jeapordize the well-being and stability of my child. Who is the sweetest, most loving child ever.
Now I have the work of forgiving this lost soul, this confused child of God. “Forgive them Father-Mother God, for they know not what they do.” I guess that makes sense. Breathe. Allow. Keep on shinin’
Carol Jean, Dante & Zhenya
| June 5, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Everyday Life |
Carol Jean, Dante & Zhenya, originally uploaded by Divinely Delightful Beings.
This is where I be livin’! In Heaven ~ Love Jah Gives Thanks and Praises to the Most High!
Original thoughts
| April 25, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Uncategorized |
As I learn more about the fine art of blogging, I realize that my initial and current efforts probably appear quite amateur (see all posts below 
). So be it, how else will I learn? My intentions are good, I’m a sweetheart, what am I worried about? I guess it’s the new thing that my innermost thoughts – my personal ramblings are available for even the most random passerby to glimpse into the photoalbum of my soul…actually, I definitely don’t think I’ve gotten that far in terms of sharing myself online, however just the thought has made me a little nervous and skittish about this entire process.
No mind, I’m still convinced I’d like to share some of the electrical impulses blipping through my brain and organs (as the organs have intelligence as well). I’m starting to realize that what will make my blog worthy of reading has less to do with my awesome adventures (of which I have many) than with my unique perspective, thoughts and ideas about this crazy concoction of coalescing realities in which we live together.
My roomate and friend, Melissa Ferguson of Archer, Florida ( http://lavenderose.blogspot.com/ ) would often run for her pad and pen when I’d start going off on my grandiose ideas and loopy philosophies. “Bumper sticker!” she’d yell. I want to see that list, I know there were some good ones. Here’s to you, lavenderose, my bloggie-blog-blog. A chronicle of my personal journey to divine.
Entering Sanctuary of the Dragon
| April 22, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Home Sweet Home |
Entering Dragon Sanctuary, originally uploaded by Divinely Delightful Beings.
Our New Home – Finally!
| April 22, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Home Sweet Home |
…And seeing as how I’m a fire dragon (b. 1976) it really is fitting that the name of our home is “Sanctuary of the Dragon” or “Dragon Sanctuary”…and from now on I’ll refer to it as D.S. It’s up on the mountain (mauka) in Honaunau. In fact, as Carol Jean let me know, I’m living at the “Capstone of the Healing Triangle”, directly above the famed City of Refuge National Park.
The first order of business is to rest and recuperate. So that is what we’ve been doing…when we’re not swimming or going to parties or school events.
I don’t know much about feng shui other than it is the “art of right placement” and that you can move things around in your house to get a more auspicious flow of “chi” happening. But I do know that there is a desk built into the back room (now my office) and I can feel the force of creativity rushing the flood gates. It’s good.
Dante is so happy to have our own home at last – he’s already taken the initiative to start cultivating the garden area. I bought him a little garden hoe (real wood and metal) and some corn seeds. He planted them one day when I was busy doing something else – a week later the little guys sprouted. We then spent some quality family time in the garden thinning out the patch (he’d dumped all the seeds in a little hole he dug) and planting the baby corn sprouts in rows.
Our house is gorgeous – check out the pictures on flikr … Or for more kicks click over to www.myspace.com/divinacommedia . A snapshot into the slowly reviving personal life of Zhenya Delate. I actually feel like I’m getting a personality again. Or maybe for the first time. I’ve been pretty dreary internally for a while now. But that is changing – Hawaii is literally rewiring my brain. I’m not the only one who claims this. There is something about this place.
City of Refuge
| January 14, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Travel Adventures |
DSC00060, originally uploaded by Divinely Delightful Beings.
Pu’ua O’Honaunau
Carol Jean and Dante
| January 14, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Dante Thunderlight |
DSC00055, originally uploaded by Divinely Delightful Beings.
Sitting on the Lanai of the porch at the Mermaid’s Temple by the Sea…
Big Island Style
| January 14, 2006 | Posted by Zen under Travel Adventures |
Hey Y’all – I’m an Island girl – took me a long time to realize it but now I do the fun is just beginning! Staying over here at the Mermaid’s Temple by the Sea … Don’t forget to check out the pics on Flickr – link is below. Here’s my post from yesterday (unedited):
Friday, January 13, 2006
Today was absolutely phenomenal. I slept in until 8:30 am this morning after a late night of working. When Dante woke up at 7:30 or 8 am I set him up with the cartoon “Flipper” on the little DVD player so I could get some more zzzzzs. After I got up, I made a breakfast of fakin’ bacon and waffles, fresh papaya and pears. It’s the full moon today, I heard someone say. Aha, it registered in my mind. Mmmm mmm. Then we drove down to Honaunau City of Refuge, a sacred spot on the Big Island, to have a swim and let Dante catch little baby fish with his net and bucket out of the tidal pools.
We did that for a while and it started getting HOT and I just wanted to get in the water. I got wet in the tidal pools, then I noticed that Carol Jean had arrived. Minutes after learning that a pod of dolphins were swimming in the little 2-Step bay. About 30 were swimming around with some people out in the water. I was so excited. They were jumping and spinning around. Dante saw them too. Then Carol showed up and told me to get going in the water with her borrowed flippers and mask and snorkel to swim with them. She didn’t have to ask twice. I dove right in. The water is now a welcome elixir of medicine “silky diamonds” or “liquid crystal”. Incredible water. So healing. I swam quite a good distance of maybe 400 feet? (it was easy wearing the fins) to where I could see everybody was gathering and following the dolphins around. It was just incredible to see them swimming together underneath the water. There was a mother and adolescent that sort of snuggled as they were undulating and gliding through the water. You never saw anything so graceful. The light penetrated through the water seeming almost as if the rays were coming up from below making me feel like I was literally inside of a crystal. Swimming in a liquid crystal. My heart was surging with happiness and love overflowing as I witnessed the dance of the dolphins. The only spot was annoyance with the gawking snorkelers who were so pushy & not giving the dolphins room to be crowding them. I felt the dolphins did not prefer to be chased around like this. Like some spectacle, rather than living beings. These people did not understand how to just BE – they wanted it all to be like a t.v. show or something. I don’t know. I stayed with them for about 5 minutes, then got disgusted with the people chasing them around and not letting them just live and be, so I went back towards shore. On my way I saw 2 honus (sea turtles) gracefully swimming through the water and schools of colorful fish.
Here is the monumental moment – When I got out, I heard happy shrieks and squeals from Dante. He and Carol were sitting on the lava rocks near where the ocean was washing up looking out at the dolphins. I was just aglow with the absolute radiance and brilliance of my own moments in the water. We spotted a little Hawaiian girl Taliah we had met the day before out in the water with her mother. Just then the dolphins swam all around the two of them (shunning the gawkers). Dante saw this and went wild. I think he decided at that point that today would be his day to finally get into the ocean. We’d been trying to get him to go in for days. Carol Jean and I had him in his vest and on a boogie board. It was really sweet. He was super excited when the dolphins swam by us 3 or 4 times! The were leaping into the air and spinning around. More later!
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