Attention IS a privilege! ✊ And it's a delight to share attention with your world, inspirations, and recipes. How lovely to find your favorite foodsmith is also a wordsmith with good taste! Thank you for the time to craft these newsletters, however frequently they come.
I have never been so delighted to learn I share the same WiFi network name with someone! My fiance and my’s first dance this fall will be to It Had To Be You.
This post inspired me, to find joy in art, poetry while having a serious case of the Januaries. Side note - I have the most beautiful weeping Santa Rosa plum in my orchard, lying dormant on this 22° day, waiting to bloom.
I'm so happy to spend my lunch break with a bowl of the Caesar White Beans from Keepers (with a little bit of wilted kale-- recommend!) and reading the Yap. Thank you for sharing your heart and kitchen with us.
Thank you for the Jeremy Miranda intel. Wow, beautiful ..and..from Maine. We recently moved to Mid-Coast, near beaches and oceans and rocks; ..which leads me to comment on this cold plunge business. I'm semi-hooked but it must be a sauna first (in a converted horse trailer) on the beach, then whenever run like a crazy person into the ocean and do a 30-second (or less) dunk (I can't get my head wet but a successful dunk for me is up to the shoulders). Do this before your brain can register and resist every impulse to not do it. Repeat until your time is up in the sauna. The net result is an amazing feeling.
Wendy - my son moved to that area last fall, from the deep south. I visited in November and fell in love with the whole midcoast area. If we didn't have family down here we needed to be near, I'd insist my husband move there with me. Anyway, I've taken to occasionally watching the Rockport Harbor webcam and a day or two after New Years I saw a woman get in the water and go for a leisurely swim. No plunge in and then back out. She swam around as if the water were summertime warm! I couldn't believe it!
The poem is perfection. It spoke to me on a level that provoke the kinds of thoughts that most written works don't. What seeds have I planted or have been planted for me that I do not yet know of and how will I cultivate them. Thank you for sharing.
Loved it. Do it on your schedule. I like The Yap better than the Occasional Yap. The Yap I Couldn't Keep to myself. I'll Yap when I'm Ready. Lots of options. I'll Yap if I Want To.
Love the Yap - it brings a smile to my face and brightens my mood. My first book to read was Hop on Pop so not too different. I was in Florida and did not see snow until college. I finally got to make snow angels which I’d dreamed about for years after reading my all-time favorite book, Snowy Day.
Happy to have The Yap show up on whatever schedule works for you! I always enjoy reading it and particularly love your sense of humor. Thanks for sharing with us!
I appreciate your thoughts and artful inclusions, the plum poem was divine. My thoughts exactly on my/your attention and privilege, notifications be damned! Have a lovely day; and I'll read your yaps whenever you publish. :)
Attention IS a privilege! ✊ And it's a delight to share attention with your world, inspirations, and recipes. How lovely to find your favorite foodsmith is also a wordsmith with good taste! Thank you for the time to craft these newsletters, however frequently they come.
I have never been so delighted to learn I share the same WiFi network name with someone! My fiance and my’s first dance this fall will be to It Had To Be You.
This post inspired me, to find joy in art, poetry while having a serious case of the Januaries. Side note - I have the most beautiful weeping Santa Rosa plum in my orchard, lying dormant on this 22° day, waiting to bloom.
I have visceral memories of that snow book.
I'm so happy to spend my lunch break with a bowl of the Caesar White Beans from Keepers (with a little bit of wilted kale-- recommend!) and reading the Yap. Thank you for sharing your heart and kitchen with us.
Somehow when I clicked, I *knew* what the Snow book was going to be -- we have that at my parents' house from my mom's childhood and my kids love it!
Marcella Hazans 3 ingredient tomato sauce, YUM!!
Thank you for the Jeremy Miranda intel. Wow, beautiful ..and..from Maine. We recently moved to Mid-Coast, near beaches and oceans and rocks; ..which leads me to comment on this cold plunge business. I'm semi-hooked but it must be a sauna first (in a converted horse trailer) on the beach, then whenever run like a crazy person into the ocean and do a 30-second (or less) dunk (I can't get my head wet but a successful dunk for me is up to the shoulders). Do this before your brain can register and resist every impulse to not do it. Repeat until your time is up in the sauna. The net result is an amazing feeling.
And I love your Yap in any dose! -wb
I lived in Bath/Brunswick area for many years and miss it so much! I love Jeremy Miranda’s artwork- reminds me so much of where I lived.
He definitely captures our light! And I'm a half-mile from the Swinging Bridge on the Topsham side of the river.
I'm not far from you--in Harpswell... the light on the water is spectacular and this area is simply one of the most amazing places to live.
OMG, we went to Lookout Point about a week ago. An easy, 20 minute, stress-free drive (compared to any Boston-area 20 min drive!)
Pretty gorgeous there... especially at sunset.
Wendy - my son moved to that area last fall, from the deep south. I visited in November and fell in love with the whole midcoast area. If we didn't have family down here we needed to be near, I'd insist my husband move there with me. Anyway, I've taken to occasionally watching the Rockport Harbor webcam and a day or two after New Years I saw a woman get in the water and go for a leisurely swim. No plunge in and then back out. She swam around as if the water were summertime warm! I couldn't believe it!
That harbor is gorgeous. I can't imagine building up my cold tolerance for a leisurely swim in January! But I admire and applaud those super humans.
The poem is perfection. It spoke to me on a level that provoke the kinds of thoughts that most written works don't. What seeds have I planted or have been planted for me that I do not yet know of and how will I cultivate them. Thank you for sharing.
Loved it. Do it on your schedule. I like The Yap better than the Occasional Yap. The Yap I Couldn't Keep to myself. I'll Yap when I'm Ready. Lots of options. I'll Yap if I Want To.
Love the Yap - it brings a smile to my face and brightens my mood. My first book to read was Hop on Pop so not too different. I was in Florida and did not see snow until college. I finally got to make snow angels which I’d dreamed about for years after reading my all-time favorite book, Snowy Day.
Happy to have The Yap show up on whatever schedule works for you! I always enjoy reading it and particularly love your sense of humor. Thanks for sharing with us!
If you ever mosey up the coast a bit, check out the Penguin Plunge on New Year’s Day on Southport island!
Please keep the yapping up! It’s always a pleasure to read and see a fun view into your life in New York. Appreciate it!!
I appreciate your thoughts and artful inclusions, the plum poem was divine. My thoughts exactly on my/your attention and privilege, notifications be damned! Have a lovely day; and I'll read your yaps whenever you publish. :)
You could never abuse my attention and I love the Yap, whenever it happens!