rain

“do you believe in always, the wind said to the rain
i am too busy with my flowers to believe, the rain answered”

— e.e. cummings

salt

The salt of the earth.

thai

I am on a Thai food kick lately. My favorite dishes so far are the red and panang curries, with a taro bubble tea on the side.

I love having variety in cuisine. I think this comes from my upbringing. My mother was a great cook, born and raised in the deep south. She loved making everything from Polish to Greek, Italian, Mexican, Cajun and Creole, and Chinese food, aside from traditional American dishes. She would often mix cuisines in one meal. One night we might have borscht with sauerkraut, and then baklava for dessert. Through her love for variety, I found the joy of experiencing new things and acquired a taste for many different spices and flavors.

gary

Artist Gary Briechle. 2016.

simplicity

“The Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.”

— Alain de Botton

contemplation

I would love to have had these two photos in one, because they happened at exactly the same time. The person you see seated to the right of the little girl is the gentleman in the first picture. Separately I like the pictures but I think together they tell such an interesting story.