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Very random thoughts after two weeks away (opens the original)
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Nothing to show for it (opens the original)
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Monday night had been lovely.Taylor had just bought an absurdly large 85-inch TV for the media room, and we were watching the US Open and eating bowls of shrimp pesto pasta I’d made for dinner. The pasta was very good. I’d hacked off a chunk of the basil bush in the garden and turned it into several servings of pesto that I have now frozen. The room was finally starting to feel like a room we lived in instead of a room we were working on. For two hours I wasn’t thinking about contractors or the
Color study, fall edition (opens the original)
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If spring was the version of the season that lives only in my head—sun-warmed, unhurried, laundry drying in a garden—fall is the one I actually want to live in. I know we’re not quite there yet. It’s still humid as a human’s mouth here in Philadelphia. But I can feel it in other ways: the leaves on my dogwood tree are already turning orange and falling, and the light is lower and more golden in the late afternoon. Everything I’m drawn to gets a few shades deeper: oxblood, indigo, tobacco. I crav
For the record (opens the original)
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We officially moved ten days ago.The move itself, aside from discovering that my building had forgotten to put us on the loading dock schedule, was going surprisingly well until I found broken shards of my Poul Kjærholm coffee table, at which point things took a turn. (It’s currently awaiting repair.) Otherwise, everything made it here more or less intact. We made several trips ourselves, even renting a U-Haul at one point, for the especially fragile or valuable things. And yet I still can’t fin
The tyranny of the open calendar (opens the original)
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Right now I am packing boxes with one hand and answering emails with the other. I have three shoots this week (none of which are local), a move happening in the middle of it, old-house problems left and right, and boxes up to my eyeballs. It is, by any reasonable measure, unhinged chaos. Everything is a mess and I can’t even walk down the hallway without knocking into something. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4-2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
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