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essay/recipe: The Spirits #181: The Piccadilly: A semi-forgotten pink Martini (Richard Godwin/The Spirits) Recipe; and did you know that the piccadill was “an elaborate lace collar popular in early 17th century” and that “Piccadilly is the best London Underground line” because it cuts through “all the most useful bits of central London,” and it has the most beautiful stations?
essay: Action: Seeking an antidote to disagreeable news (Rosecrans Baldwin/Meditations in an Emergency) “Action as antidote. Action as antitoxin. I wonder if maybe some of the beauty in being active, pursuing small steps, is that it can feel like a cure. As Octavia E. Butler wrote, “So be it. See to it.” Action as balm.” There is always something, even something very small and seemingly insignificant, that we can do to help ourselves, our community, and the world around us.
photo essay: Season Catchers (Jack Wallington/Wild Way) Gorgeous early fall in an English garden, and lovely words to accompany. This particularly resonates for me: “I guess I grow our garden to catch the seasons, to celebrate the way that constant change makes me feel more myself.”
essay: How do you reset? (Rob Walker/The Art of Noticing) “Pay attention to what you care about” and just as importantly, “care about what you pay attention to,” by dwelling on them and savouring them, these seemingly “incidental things that pierce our veil of distraction.”
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