Gifts from Ecuador

The smell of my knitting bag is intoxicating. Last night I went to our collective's pot luck and my dear friend Pia came with small baggies of dried herbs. It looked funny of course, like we were making some kind of illicit deal, but I greedily grabbed each bag and took a deep whiff - the complex scents of Anise, Talamancan peppercorns, cumin, and other precious herbs from Ecuadoran, Pia's