at the time of the sun coming around the corner

The blogging break was fruitful. Fruitful in the sense that I let myself do nothing, absolutely nothing for a few hours at least.

After starting meditation classes lately, I've been trying to practice more stillness. Maybe not surprisingly, trying to visually document moments and trying to recognize each day with a blog has helped me develop more mindfulness and slowness. 

A slower moment outside of the new "office." After running around to get some photocopies for a pr event, I got a chance to look at the waterfront, watch some shadows.

This might be why people prefer ritual, even seek them out. I've been thinking about rituals like having "indoor" shoes that I slip on right when I get home or having a cup of tea closer to bed. I think it would change the way I interact with the day and with time. This goes for the sketch a day too, which officially starts today. 

Either way, we've been interacting with time differently since moving from the city to the town. People walk slower, people walk arm in arm more often, and people stop to talk about how high the water is or some other "local" sentiment. 

I made my coworkers some macaroons--pistachio macaroons this time--and it was surprising to see them, even the day after and the day after that, recall the sentiment and extend some thanks. Things just seem to last a bit longer.

Imperfectly shaped pistachio macaroons. The pale color they get is really stunning,  almost regal in the way that disturbingly pale things are often fancy. The crunch of these was better than my first attempt at macaroons and I halved the filling recipe to have a bit less waste and more texture balance.

I've planted everything too early. I'm an impatient green thumb.

Winter lasted a bit too long, but it looks like we've started to see spring and some time to put our faces towards the sun.