Every day I wake up thinking about food. Like in general. Not because I’m already hungry, though I also am.
Over the weekend I realized we live in a Berlin-looking area of Manhattan. Or at least, one of the parks we go to definitely does (see above). I can easily fool myself into thinking that we’re in Germany.
Today will be focused on studying, particularly the reading kind. I’ll drop off and pick up new books at the local branch of the NYC public library; we already went for a park play and run; and now I’m about to make my second cup of coffee. I’ll also work a little more on the design of this site so that I can release it to the world as Version 1.0, soooooon. There’s no way I can make it perfect - it’d never go out.
I woke up with the word synthesizer in mind. Every time I think of the word synthesizer, I can only think of that Daft Punk song (Giorgio by Moroder), particularly when he says,
‘Well why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future’
This led me to an interesting parallel, which is that people who are synthesizers might just be the people of the future.
I remember when that song came into my life. I had no idea what I was doing, I’d just graduated, my family had also gone through a bankruptcy the same year, and I was both free from all expectations but also maybe too free. An only child of immigrants/refugees, with no connections and a million ideas. A friend at the time played this song for me on one of our drives to San Jose from Southern California. It inspired me so much to I dunno, go do something!
And i did tings...
I tend to enjoy things that are difficult, or that feel never-ending. I don't want to see the end when I start something, as frightening as that sounds to someone who can be very anxious, but it is what I prefer.
Food and cooking feel like this to me. There is no ending, only the next meal, the next opportunity to give yourself and others around you the joy of the present moment.
Forgot it was a holiday. No library today.