Christmas Bread. (testaments).She wants to make babka bab·ka n. A coffee cake flavored with orange rind, rum, almonds, and raisins. [Polish, diminutive of baba, old woman.] Noun 1. at Christmas for the ghost of her Polish grandmother, but so far has not managed to bake as well as she remembers the way her "Babci" kneaded, rolled, blessed the dough into the kind of nourishment nour·ish·ment n. Something that nourishes; food. never found in a restaurant. She talks to me in my office; I play a cloud to her sunshine, perhaps a dangerous thunderhead thun·der·head n. The swollen upper portion of a thundercloud, usually associated with the development of a thunderstorm. Noun 1. , or maybe just some cover to complement all that brightness. At my darkest I think I am sparing her, because she is too lovely to disillusion dis·il·lu·sion tr.v. dis·il·lu·sioned, dis·il·lu·sion·ing, dis·il·lu·sions To free or deprive of illusion. n. 1. The act of disenchanting. 2. The condition or fact of being disenchanted. with the irredeemable sadness of my air-tight conclusions. More rarely I recognize, just as a recipe can only give you measurements, ingredients, temperature, time, her arguments for joy are not undone by logic, any more than one can explain the hows or whys of a bread born sweet with the smell of Christmas, salvation she sometimes helps me almost taste, believe. |
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