Cherry Sandwich Morning Ritual Morning Routine

20220112, #breakfastdiary 321, -13°C/clear skies, 20 min/exercise Grill sourdough on both sides in a pan with olive oil. Halve some cherries, simmer them with butter and sugar for about 10 minutes, then pile them onto sourdough spread thick with ricotta. Finish with thyme. #cherrysandwich As a middle-aged person, I recognize that time is a finite resource. So I'll try to free myself from pointless obsessions. Which means I won't make resolutions about absolutely finishing something within the year — that sort of thing suits graduate students writing their theses better. On the other hand, the things I can only do this year and never again, I will try to do this year. I don't want to be like the young man who puts off intimacy until age ninety for the sake of exam prep. Some things, if you don't do them in their season, you can never do at all. Apart from those things, I'll simply guard my daily routine. Every morning I'll boil an egg without fail, and once I've finished it I'll write that day's piece; in the afternoon I'll take a long walk. Along the way I'll stop at the coffee shop on my walking route for the day's coffee, and drop by the little bookshop kept by its taciturn owner to buy a book. Kim Young-min, 'Once It Completed Its Transformation Through Self-Control, the Bear Became Human' The title felt so preachy that I hesitated over whether to read it, but by the end I was relieved. (It reads like a title the editorial desk picked purely to boost the click-through rate.) So, I recommend giving it a read.