Food & Diet
I spent a lot of summers learning that the feeling telling you something's wrong is usually the last one to show up, not the first. By the time you notice, whatever's actually happening has been happening for a while. This week's reading kept handing
Apple & Technology
Sept. 18/26 For years I had a folder called Downloads that behaved the way you'd expect. Invoices, screenshots, PDFs from three different banks, receipts I meant to file and never did. Once a month or so I'd sit down and drag things into place by
Food & Diet
There's a pattern I ran into three times this week, in three rooms that don't usually talk to each other: something that used to happen on its own has quietly stopped happening on its own, and getting it back means doing it on purpose now. I
Apple & Technology
Sept. 11/26 For a few weeks this summer, Craft just sat there. I'd built it a home in my writing setup, given it a folder and a purpose — the Sunday Digest — and then I dropped the Digest. Craft didn't get deleted. It just went quiet,
Food & Diet
Sept. 8/26 Trust what you can see and touch over what sounds good on paper. I wrote that line about food this month, half-thinking it belonged only to food. By the end of the week it had shown up twice more, in a glucose graph and in an
Apple & Technology
Sept. 4/26 I dropped Obsidian last week. That sentence would have surprised me a year ago — I'd built half my note-taking identity around that app, the graph view, the backlinks, the promise that if I just kept adding notes the connections would eventually show themselves like
Food & Diet
Sept.1/26 I used to think most of the important systems in a life ran themselves. The body handled its own business overnight. A letter sealed in an envelope stayed private without anyone doing a thing to keep it that way. You didn't manage these things — you
Apple & Technology
Aug. 28/26 Privacy wasn't a setting when I was young. It was just the shape of things. A letter went in an envelope and the only people who read it were the ones it was addressed to. A phone call happened on a line that ran to
Food & Diet
Aug 25/26 I've come around to trusting the small, boring, repeatable thing over the elaborate one. That's not a new belief exactly — twenty-seven years of watching complicated systems, irrigation timing, rotation, weather nobody could predict, will teach you that lesson eventually whether you'
Food & Diet
Aug. 18/26 There's a decision every one of us makes constantly without noticing we're making it: do I trust the instrument, or do I trust what I'm carrying around in my body. Most days it doesn't matter which way you lean.
Apple & Technology
I spent an hour last week looking for a photograph. Not a photograph of anything important — just a shot of the almond rows in bloom from a few springs back, the kind of light you get maybe four mornings a year if you're paying attention. I knew it
Food & Diet
Three things landed on my desk this month, from three different directions, and they all turned out to be doing the same trick: something quieter and more automatic took over a job I used to have to do myself, on purpose, with effort. What was interesting wasn't the