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jenett ([personal profile] jenett) wrote2019-01-18 08:07 am
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Salon post: January 18

Good morning!

Topic of the week
What thing have you learned or done recently that's brought you joy? (Or at least a certain amount of pleasure. Doesn't have to be a peak joy experience.)

Alternately, related to what I'm up to, do you read Tarot? (Or use them in other ways?) Do you have a favourite deck? What's your approach? (Other oracle methods also welcome. We are an inclusive discussion here!)

Not interested in either of those? As always, whatever other topics people want to talk about very welcome. Start a thread, see who joins in.

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[personal profile] melannen put together a bookmarklet (based on one by [profile] astrolat) that allows you to quickly share links on Dreamwidth and that will check to see if you're linking to a locked DW post. Instructions on the bookmarklet over here It'll create a new DW post, autofill the subject line, and then you can edit or add other commentary.

What I've been up to
Unpacking. I got all my books on bookshelves last Sunday, labelled them a couple of days ago (and now I need to go through and update my locations in LibraryThing. That's a longer project).

Tonight is for finishing tidying up the living room and cleaning before I have witchy students over tomorrow. (For a class on Tarot.)


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[personal profile] warriorinside 2019-01-18 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, many diets exclude added salt, and I know one person who eats her food so salty nobody else can stand it. She likes it, and her blood pressure is normal because she has a diagnosed sodium deficiency. She'll get sick if she doesn't do that. *shrug* Takes all kinds to make a world.

The reason they cop out here is because all other spices balance with each other. Salt is its own thing and affects the taste buds directly instead of indirectly via scent.

I feel you on cilantro, though. My taste in cilantro is leave that thing out of my food, tyvm. (I'm in that 10% of the population that think it tastes like soap.)
Edited 2019-01-18 20:49 (UTC)
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[personal profile] cjsmith 2019-01-18 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can think of specific reasons to cop out on many of the others, but basically it all boils down to "most people don't care that this one quantity isn't given". Since I'm the one who does care and I am in the minority, well, I won't use those recipes by myself until I get the Magic Knowledge everyone is supposed to have.

My sympathies on the cilantro soap thing. I have the brassica bitter thing. Broccoli, cauliflower, all that stuff please do not go in mouth.