Reader, Walking
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Place matters

The arbutus is now open everywhere in the woods and groves. How pleasant it is to meet the same flowers year after year ! If the blossoms were liable to change — if they were to become capricious and irregular — they might excite more surprise, more curiosity, but we should love them less; they…

Food in transition

I told someone this week that we are busier post 2020 than we were before and I wonder if that busy-ness was in reaction to the lack of activity in 2020. It could also be just because my kids are older, too. I was spoiled by that time of being able to plan a menu…

More thoughts on identity

As I read Norms and Nobility by David Hicks, one of the ways he defines things is by prescriptive and descriptive. Prescriptive ideas are the “thou shalt” (or “thou shalt not”). They’re prescribing a certain way, a specific activity, like a doctor prescribes a medicine. Descriptive ideas are describing (tautology? Perhaps). They describe how things…