Get up and straighten your living space then practice yoga for two hours until the clothes you are wearing have no dry spots left then you’re done. If you are sick, you will smell it in your hair after exertion - it's important to know how you smell. Drink a lot of water, then a cup of hot sweet tea.

Take 2 lamb shanks (these are ankles basically, mini legs of lamb on a budget) and stuff them with garlic cloves in slits you cut into the meat. Soak saffron threads in a tablespoon of boiling water. Mix the saffron and its water with lemon juice and olive oil and fresh oregano. Pour that over the lamb and let it marinade for a couple of hours, or all afternoon while you sit at Spot and read and write.

Cut potatoes in thick slices and onions in thick slices and cover the bottom of a casserole dish (preferably clay) that you’ve rubbed down in olive oil. Put the lamb on top of that. Pour the marinade over the whole thing. Add coarse salt and ground pepper, plenty of both. Bake covered at 325 until the meat comes off the bone, 2-3 hours.

Turn off the heat and let it sit in the oven while you braise baby green beans with a teaspoon of fat/butter until they’re hot but still very crunchy. (I made yellow rice too, to mix w the other carbs for another layer of flavor and better color balance of the meal - this is overdoing it, but overdoing it is how I roll.)

Put the beans on a plate, add one shank and a bunch of the onion-potato/carb base. Drizzle the whole thing w the marinade from under the lamb in the casserole dish and add a sprig of fresh dill for a smell-garnish. Serve with a glass of good oaky chardonnay, slightly chilled.

Being able to cook is a blessing. Being able is a blessing. Count your blessings. Make another plate as an offering. Put a bowl of chocolate ice cream next to it. Pray to the spirits that protect you. Listen to their answer. Listen to thunder roll in again. Open the windows. Eat your dinner.

The Bird and The Bee - How Deep Is Your Love [a couple microns? a metaphysical kilometer? what?]