I started this blog a few years ago when I turned twenty-five, and it began as a place for me to post about cheese, pottery and other things I thought were interesting over the course of that year. Now, even though my "Year Twenty-Five" is behind me, I keep this site as a way of collecting things I feel inspired by and/or would like to eat.
A sweet, wonderful story from TED:
Rives mentions a poem by the same name in his talk - I pulled out the following stanza because I really liked it:
The hour swept clean to the crowing of cocks / The hour when earth betrays us. / The hour when wind blows from extinguished stars. / The hour of and-what-if-nothing-remains-after-us.
from FOUR IN THE MORNING, Wislawa Szymborska. See the whole poem here.
"It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down."
From his commencement address at Kenyon College in 2005. Read the full transcription here.
"But if the deep roots of boredom are in a lack of meaning, rather than a shortage of stimuli, and if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning, then the constant flow of information to which we are becoming habituated cannot deliver on such a promise."
Read the article here.
"If you’re wearing your Disney MagicBand and you’ve made a reservation, a host will greet you at the drawbridge and already know your name—Welcome Mr. Tanner! She’ll be followed by another smiling person—Sit anywhere you like! Neither will mention that, by some mysterious power, your food will find you."
Super interesting article about Disney's MagicBand. It's based on RFID technology, but the implications laid out in this article are kind of staggering.
Read the full article here.
This is an awesome way to spend a lot of time on the internet. It is essentially an archive of websites that colleague everything from Walkmans to fading advertisements painted on buildings to packaging/branding from decades past.
Click here to see more.
"Our parents and grandparents, we realized, hadn't made a big deal about hosting family dinners; it was just something they did. It was normal. After a few weeks it started to feel normal for us, too."
I am so enamoured with this idea. Maybe a goal for 2015? Read the whole story here.
"The study found that people enjoyed their food more when they also enjoyed the background music playing. Loud white noise played at eighty decibels (about as loud as a blender or a washing machine), however, dulled the perception of flavor."
Read the full article here.
"We too can imagine, for example, going to bed at 9pm on a winter night, waking at midnight, reading and chatting until around 2am, then sleeping again until 6am."
See the full article from Aeon, here.
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