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little organization goes a long way. Having all your ingredients out on the counter, prepped and ready to go before you begin, is huge. In fact, chefs have a special term for this, mise en place, which is French for “setting in place.” It
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“And, after all, what did it mean? Home? Suppose it was not the place you came from, but a thing you carried with you, like a suitcase. And you could lose your suitcase, she knew that now. You could open another person’s luggage, and put on their clothes, and though you might feel different at first, out of your depth, something inside you was the same, and even a little more true to itself, a little more free.”
― Miss Benson's Beetle
― Miss Benson's Beetle
“She had travelled to the other side of the world, but the distance she'd covered inside herself was immeasurable.”
― Miss Benson's Beetle
― Miss Benson's Beetle
“If happiness is a skill, then sadness is, too. Perhaps through all those years at school, or perhaps through other terrors, we are taught to ignore sadness, to stuff it down into our satchels and pretend it isn’t there. As adults, we often have to learn to hear the clarity of its call. That is wintering. It is the active acceptance of sadness. It is the practice of allowing ourselves to feel it as a need. It is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can. Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.”
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
― Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?” —GEORGE ELIOT”
― Dear Edward
― Dear Edward
“In the workshop, wishing won't make it so. The craftsman is forced to come to terms with the physical properties of materials, the mechanical properties of tools, and the real capacity and limits of his own dexterity, discipline and imagination. In this way, craft's materiality imposes cooperation on the sometimes discordant factions of the mind. By necessity, it reconciles the desire to interpret the world in ways that are emotionally gratifying with the countervailing need for accurate information to facilitate effective decisions. Thus the holistic quality of craft lies not only in engaging the whole person but also in harmonising his understanding of himself in the world.”
― Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
― Why We Make Things and Why It Matters: The Education of a Craftsman
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