I love them so. The immigrants I come into contact, the ones that I speak to directly, are all fine people that I am proud and pleased to welcome.
That is not the present situation under discussion though. I have not seen the likes of a political party abandoning law and demagoguing the issue of immigration and presuming to lecture us all, the children and grandchildren of immigrants ourselves about our country being made up of immigrants while cooly dismissing the difference between legal and illegal immigration. Simply and completely dismissing the real issue at hand challenging us all while hurling racial invective on top of it all. This proves to me repeatedly they obsessed with race are the ones who are racist, and racist in all things.
One of the women I gave the Dixon chile power to is such an immigrant. We adore each other. She teaches me Spanish, we have a good time together. We share.
Check this out, Checkerouters, by way of repayment for the bag of chile powder she told me she has a book she wants me to have. By what she told me in passing I was led to believe she had in mind a cookbook written in Spanish. I was hoping for that. Today, just now, she knocked on my door and turned over to me this whole pile of books she can no longer use. She told me why each one is unsuitable for her, why they must go.
- Better Homes and Gardens Anyone Can Cook. This will not be useful to me either.
- Chocolate treats. I already have Chocolate Bible and other chocolate books I read them and absorbed them.
- Taste of Home's Best Holiday Recipes A magazine, the sort I toss without looking through, like Sunset. Too many annoying drop out cards.
- Creative Crepe Cooking I already know all about crepes.
- Wolfgang Puck Make it Easy I do not need anything easy.
- Weber's real Grilling. I could have written this book myself.
- Ultimate Rose I sodded over an extensive rose garden of some fifty plants decades ago. Way too much work for so brief a reward. Plus my dog dropped dead in that rose garden. Too much emotion for me for that.
I cannot use any of these books. And I am in a paring down mode presently. These books are not for me, I would not choose any of them. But still, here they are, a thoughtful gift indeed, in deed, and I do appreciate that. I am just too hard to please. So off to Goodwill with the rest of the stuff that is going there presently and I do and always will appreciate the impulse behind the trouble of bringing all this directly to me.
Come to think of it, she may be thinking the same thing about the chile powder I gave her. She might have her own thing already and cannot use this. Maybe she's advanced beyond whatever it is I can think of. But why blow it by letting each other know all of that? Don't tell her, okay? It really is the thought that counts. And count it does.
Dixon chile powder (5 stars)
