The world outside my workshop window has all but ground to a halt: it's frozen solid and covered in a 20-inch blanket of snow. It recently got down to -25°F (with windchill), the tires on my truck froze, and the fountain pen cartridges I ordered from JetPens exploded in our mailbox (they are sending me replacements in the Spring). This cold begs me to tread more carefully, to move through the world more deliberately. I'm going slow. Summer is a time for doing. Winter is a time for being. Fountain pens, heirloom beans, ZZ Top, Pilates, porridge, Criterion Collection. I've been going down weird and wonderful rabbit holes lately. And don't get me started on the birds: bird feeders, bird food, bird binoculars, field guides to birds, bird apps, and the birds themselves. I'm a big fan of the chickadees. “All of my hobbies involve basically micro-dosing ephiphanies.” I read this in a recent interview with the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen. The colder it gets here in the Catskills, the more epiphanies I seem to be having. And that is an epiphany worth sharing.
Stay Sharp. Stay Curious.
—PB-S
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