@jmorris Glad to help. The fact is my wife is leaving for a month, and I wanted to make sure I had the entire recipe down anyway!

String quartet in light rain. Absolutely delightful.

NOCHE DE BOLEROS MEXICANOS:
CUARTETO DE CUERDAS

#Mexico #Guanajuato #Music

Last month I wrote a #poem based on my interpretation of a #writing prompt, andshared it here. Over the past few days I took in the challenge of translating it into #Spanish. That was fun, and involved a lot of playing around. The meter had to change, I had to learn a bunch of new words, and a few new metaphors. Anyway, here they both are. I hope you enjoy.

Love Letter to an #Aromantic Friend

The truth was revealed
As truth is
In the things you didn't do
An unanswered touch
A glance that never met

And yet when we sit
Side by side
Reading our separate books
Playing separate games
I feel your soul with mine

And while you may not
It is true
Long for me as I for you
I can live with that
If you would live with me

And so I ask you
Via text
If you would join my comfort
Spending life with me
Doing separate things

-- Kee Hinckley

Carta de Amor a Unx Amigx #Arrománticx

La verdad fue revelada
Ya que es verdad
En las cosas que no hacías
Un toque sin respuesta
Una mirada insatisfecha

Pero cuando nos sentamos
Lado a lado
Leyendo libros separados
Jugando en nos compus
Siento tu alma con la mía

Y si bien tú no puedas
A decir verdad
Anhelarme como yo a ti
Puedo vivir con eso
Si querrías vivir conmigo

Y así que te pregunto
Por un mensaje
Si te unes a mí en mi paz
Viviendo conmigo
Haciendo cosas separadas

-- Kee Hinckley

#lgbtq

@jmorris We used to do it in a slow cooker, which was a lot of work because you have wrap it in towels and try to get the temp just right. But the Instapot actually has a Yogurt button.

This is a recipe my wife built from several online ones. It's odd in two ways. One, it uses nonfat UHT milk, because that's easier to get (and keep) here, and we wanted non-fat. Two, it uses skim milk powder as a thickener/enhancer. If you do otherwise, just search online, there are plenty of recipes.

• Two liters non-fat UHT milk.
• One cup skim milk powder.
• Quarter cup starter (find a store-bought with live cultures, we keep some single serving Chobanis in the freezer; you can use your own yogurt as starter, but after a few generations it doesn't work well).
• Mix well in pot.
• Put a plate on top instead of the lid (the seal can have flavors from savory stuff; some people use different seals, one sweet and one savory).
• Set timer fo 10 hours. Check at 5 or 7 hours. Take out if it tastes good (we usually do at 7). Longer you wait the more sour it gets.
• Don't stir.
• Put in fridge.

The skim milk powder works really well making up for the non-fat UHT. I'm not normally a fan of non-fat milk things, but this tastes great. I use it in granola as well. Or just have it with fruit.

1 cup unsweetened yogurt (made in instapot)
1 lime (the little Mexican green ones)
4 fresh mangos
1 TBSP monk fruit sweetener

Popsicles are in the freezer.

Edit. Forgot how strong Mexican limes are. Half would have been more than enough. It's still good, but the lime dominates thr mango.

I saw Todo Sobre Mi Madre in a cafe this evening, with a small discussion afterward.

I was hoping for Spanish subtitles, but they didn't have any (it was just projected from Amazon Movies).. However, the Wikipedia plot summary filled the gaps, and it was very good. It's an interesting mixture though, of the main plot, and a stage production of Street Car Named Desire (not to mention a touch of All About Eve--note the title similarity). I'm definitely going to watch it with subtitles and Mollie, because there's a lot of symbolism missing in how the use monologues from Street Car, and I didn't get the jokes.

The trans representation is dated (it's from the 90's), but the themes of motherhood, women's roles, gender identity, orientation, AIDS, abortion, sex work, and Alzheimer's, are still timely. And there was a nice dedication at the end.

At the end Almodóvar dedicates the film to some of the actresses in the movies he references, and "To all actresses who have played actresses. To all women who act. To men who act and become women. To all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother".

#movies

Cannot verify, but funny regardless.

I'm really embarrassed that I went so many decades without listening to Maná.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teprNzF6J1I