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Easy Kolacky

This kolacky recipe is a simple Czech cream cheese pastry (pronounced kolotch-key), a very old holiday favorite. Using Solo-brand filling found in the baking aisle is a delicious time-saver. The prune flavor is scrumptious!

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The Shortest Day
by Susan Cooper

And so the shortest day came and the year died

And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world

Came people singing, dancing,

To drive the dark away.

They lighted candles in the winter trees;

They hung t

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The Seated Woman of Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük) is a baked-clay, nude female form seated between feline-headed arm-rests. It is generally thought to depict a corpulent and fertile Mother goddess in the process of giving birth while seated on her t

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~ Joseph Campb

Yield and overcome, empty and be full. Have little and gain, have much and be confused. Not putting on a display, not justifying, not boasting, not bragging. Be really whole and all things will come to you.

~ Lao Tsu
Tao Te Ching

How to make Grandma’s Homemade Buttermilk Cookies

Ingredients :

300 gr. All-purpose flour.

70 gr. Of shortening.

1 Glass. Of milk.

1 Large sp. of white sugar.

1 large sp. of baking powder.

1 small sp. of salt.

Instructions:

I started by setting the oven to

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Photo: Gravetye Manor