July 24/26 I never set out to track anything. That was the whole point of the farm — you didn't need a chart to tell you the ground was dry, you just walked out and knew it by the color of the dirt and the way your boots
July 22/26 Of all the numbers the ring hands me each morning, HRV is the one I've come to trust most, and the one I understood least when I started. Heart rate is simple enough — beats per minute, easy to picture. HRV is stranger. It's
Gardener of Life — Tuesday 7/21/26 You don't find out what you actually have until you go looking for it. Not what you assumed, not what the label promised — what's actually there. This week that happened three times, in three different corners of a life,
July 20/26 Fish twice a week. That's the number that keeps showing up in the Mediterranean reading I've been doing — not a rule exactly, more like a habit that surfaces again and again when people describe how they actually eat over there. I've
Sunday Digest — July 19/26 The week's ledger. One thread this week, though it took three shapes to tell it. This week's Long View pulled together the oil, the ring, and the browser — a bottle of olive oil that won out over vegetable oil once I
A friend's phone went into the pond last week. Not mine — I'd have felt worse about it if it'd been mine, and that's exactly the thought that got me. She fished it out, dried it off, and it was gone. No screen,
The first time I looked at my Libre 3 data, I expected to see meals. What I saw instead was a conversation I didn't know my body was having with itself all day long, meals being just one voice in it. I'd figured the graph would
Gardener of Life Tuesday 7/14/26 Nobody tells you when the switch happened. That's the thing about the changes that stick — you go looking for the moment, the decision point, the day you turned a corner, and there isn't one. There's just a
I never grew beans. Twenty-seven years on that ground and it was rice, row crop, and the orchards — apricots we grew and packed ourselves. Legumes weren't part of the operation. So when I say I've been thinking about them lately, it's not some
July 12,2026 Still getting the week lined up on paper — this one’s a work in progress while I flesh out the rest of the ledger. Consider it the porch light on, nobody home yet. Some weeks come together clean, row by row. This one’s still got a
July 10 ,2026 Apple&Technolgy A MacStories article sent me to Orion about a year ago. I don't remember the exact headline — something about a Safari alternative worth trying. I downloaded it, set it as my default, and mostly forgot I'd made a switch. That&
So I started wearing an Oura Ring in 2020 and have been using the data since then. When I started on Mounjaro, I expected the ring to confirm what I was feeling — less appetite, more energy, maybe better sleep as the weight started moving. That's not quite what