I love chick peas and there are always a half dozen cans in my pantry. Along with small, medium and large black olives. That's more the result of not paying attention than careful planning though.

We usually have plenty of rice & pasta on hand, and a variety of goofy kind of sauces to add interest to things. My most recent discovery is a Pomegranate Chipotle roasting sauce.

I also have the fixins for a damn good Chinese dinner. Everything I need to make my own General Tso's Chicken...but I haven't done it yet. So that's my dust collector. ha ha

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.