kefir grains are a combination of yeast and bacterias that look like a clump of decaying, smelly cauliflower. When placed in milk it makes the milk ferment and can even turn it into yoghurt. It grows in the milk, like a living thing. The smell and taste are sour, sharp, and piquant. I find the stench of kefir when it gets up my nostrils revolting. Never mind the taste. I had it for a time because I was told it's really good to balance your digestive system. But I couldn't take it...it was disgusting.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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