Everything ends, the thing that stays with you the longest? …life.
Love life.

Ever since I had fresh sichuan peppercorns in China, I’ve found the tingly sensation and mouth numbness pretty awesome.

"How did you transition out of literally wanting days to end to looking forward to the next day?"

Most of my ‘takeaways’ reach me while I’m walking along.

Magic is all around

Do you sometimes/often find that you’ve finished a meal and can’t really remember having it? And the solution always seems to enjoy some more food?

A colleague, trained as a life coach, introduced this method as a way to re-focus your personal goals.

“It’s the days that you can’t love yourself, that you look desperately for love from others”

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor’s anedoctal and referential richness inspires the reader to delve (& breathe) deeeper.

As a lover of variety & low expectations, I started trying new things from one day to the next. ‘2-week challenges’? Not really no, I would just start doing something with regularity, and if it stuck after a 2-week period, it stuck.. otherwise onwards! & potentially back round!

"You're the least legit person I know"

"J’ai du apprendre avant de comprendre"

"Having trouble or perhaps making it"

"Cozinhar não é muito a minha praia, mas drinque..."

Despite being 100% Italian, mastering Italian as a second language always seemed impossible. The Italian teaching style in my school was also much stricter. Clearly having fun was conducive to learning:

At the end of 2020, I wanted to practice gratitude and re-value all that 2020 had brought. While resisting a lot of the dialogue I was seeing -> that 2021 would be “better”.

Meal planning? Nah…

Sometimes it feels that when you go too hard in some parts of your life, you might end up slacking in others.

“She’s figured out all her doubts were someone else’s point of view” - She by Greenday

Nah, not really.

"What are you trying to prove?"

I love that sometimes our brains just spell things differently. Say replacing words with their homophones.

So what am I doing here?

Trying out some writing!
Why,
exactly?