Apparently, chili Heron-style requires four secret ingredients which I will disclose here because very very few people who read this (3, exactly) know the name of the Heron (and according to the myths of various regions and Susan Cooper's 1973 classic The Dark is Rising, the true names of people and places are quite powerful when known or spoken aloud. Perhaps that is why I had never really liked my full name spoken, prefering nicknames of mysterious origins; tho now I'm getting used to it written: Phil+lina.): cinnamon, coffee grounds, whisky, and a bay leaf.

Now the paintings here are quite evocative. Especially the one of a man emerging from a subway tunnel into streetlamplit forest.

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