ON THE SCENE Give a recent scene report, either from a momentous occasion or regular haunt.

• scene: on the side of an appalachian mountain, sitting in soft long dry grass next to my partner, tall grass all around us and the trail slicing through, a pause next to a trickling pond along the creek, eating mixed nuts and drinking cold creek water from the filter straw

CIRCLE OF CONFIDANTS Who is currently comprising your inner circle?

• IRL friends, partner, a few URL people

CAMERA ROLL Look through recent photos. Identify one that feels best representative of the last month.

• reading on the porch with hot tea and new soft jeans on

GRIPPING What deeply captured your full attention?

• the giver by lois lowry, long walks in nature

HALF READ Contrarily, what did you halfway focus on?

• shadow work and meditation

WANDERLUST Did you make any travel plans (even if abstract)?

• backpacking, vague europe plans!

VEGETAL A chervil and thyme salad. Radishes with butter. Celery soup. Cite a vegetable of the month.

• i'm counting avocado. been mashing it up with lime juice and s&p for a snack all the time. out of season but so good

PIANO PIANO When were you deliberately slow?

• trying to make mornings more deliberately slow, making breakfast and doing chores instead of rushing out of the house toward some action