"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

This is one of my all-time favorite poems and it makes more and more sense to me as time goes by... Although the roads to take are getting "blurrier" by the minute. I just wish things got clearer in my life!!

Pretty Good Saturday Night

My social life nowadays is so dwindled that I thought it was already dead, but last night something happened that brought it back to life . I was invited to a friend's birthday party and I had a great time.

I'm not going to analyze here or now how I've come to this situation, but I'm glad some people still count on me to celebrate moments of joy.

I made a raw/vegan Hazelnut Chocolate Cake for the occasion. It tasted great, but was a little too "thick" after all we had had for dinner. I'm not sure my friends enjoyed it as much as I would have wanted them to (that's the impression you get when they keep saying "it's too thick, way too thick", instead of "it has such a great taste"!!). If you want to try it, here's where I got the recipe from (maybe I didn't measure the ingredients properly):
 http://www.thewannabechef.net/2011/08/15/hazelnut-chocolate-cake-rawvegan/

Our "shared" Spanish blood is thicker than all the water in the Atlantic Ocean...

I was an only child for 12 years. Then, life gave me one brother & five sisters over a very short period of time...

Only my brother is blood-related (on my mother's side) and I adore him (yes, even when he gives me a hard time!!). He's probably the best thing that has ever "happened" to me.

My three step-sisters arrived when my mother remarried.

After that, I found (*or did they find me?*) my two soul-sisters -formerly known as my "host-sisters". I lived with them (and their wonderful-generous-loving parents, María & Gary) the year I spent studying in the States... I love them so much! It's hard to believe how I can feel this close with someone when we have an Ocean (and a whole country, for that matter) between us!! We were "disconnected" for a while, but thanks to modern technology we were able to "reconnect" (Thank you social networks!!). I wonder if our Spanish blood (mom-María is from Sevilla!) has anything to do with that feeling... Probably not, but it is a cool thought, isn't it? I had a chance to spend a few weeks with these beautiful human beings again last Summer and I cannot wait to see them again soon!!