Late August now, late summer, Virgo season, harvest season, eclipse season, separating the useful from the debris. The thing about harvesting is that it’s a very honest activity. If we’re pulling in crops from the fields and counting chickens and whatnot, processing things and preserving them, we’re seeing exactly what we have and we’re deciding… Continue reading Lughnasadh (was a month ago now)
Late Summer Produce List
August is a long slow hot month, and so is September. I like it, I find it quiet, the city is sort of quiet: people wind down their wildness, or go out of town to the beach, tourists are also at the beach or doing school shopping, I don’t know what other people do. I… Continue reading Late Summer Produce List
Late Summer
When August hits people love to pretend like the end of summer is nigh. That’s not true unless you’re a kid going back to school, or on the Chinese calendar that defines the seasons 6 weeks off from the western one. The Gaelic calendar calls it Lughnasadh. But this is New York City and as… Continue reading Late Summer
why cooking
I started seasonal cooking in earnest the first summer of covid. I had barely left my neighborhood in months, just looked out the window a lot and walked up and down the same streets, taking pictures of trees budding and flowers blooming and wilting and being replaced by something else. I started going to the… Continue reading why cooking
First post, on time
How do we mark the passage of time? The older I get, with no children, the more amorphous it seems. When you’re a child, and I imagine when you have children, it’s much easier to measure. We start school, we wait for Christmas, sports seasons change, we graduate a grade, there’s a magical summer vacations.… Continue reading First post, on time