missing this, just sitting in a café and watching the world go by without care.
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weeknotes 13/21
nice things this week:
– sending folares to family and seeing everyone else at the post office looking for boxes to do the same! my family was never really big on the traditional easter sweet bread, but the one from olhão is so good that we just feel compelled to share.
– this stop motion lego chocolate cake!
– watched beau miles’s long walk to work, and pondered about all the adventures we could do more locally. restrictions are lifting a little bit next week, and i look forward to hiking again.
– mike lowery drawing prompts & james richards urban sketching class have kept me entertained this week. i’ve also been listening to julia cameron’s the artist’s way and dutifully filling up my morning pages. i’m not much of an artist, but i still like the meditative aspect of it, and the really looking closely and paying attention. we’ll see what happens!
– for the past 2 days, we’ve woken up extra early and walked to the ria to watch the sunrise. only us and the birds are awake, and it’s kind of magical.
spring flowers, bread-making experiments, walking and cycling around the ria, birdwatching and zooming with friends. looking forward to the lifting of some of the lockdown restrictions, to seeing people in real life and to long hikes! :D
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analogue wednesday #256
missing asia like a phantom limb. :( i wonder how we’ll see it one day, when we go back.
– seeing the in-laws get the first dose of the vaccine, at last! they’re in their 80s, and it feels like a weight has been lifted off our shoulders, like a cloud that had been there for a whole year slowly dissipating. there’s nothing like this overwhelming feeling of relief, of knowing your family will be ok.
– i’ve been trying to eat a bit better this year, and i’m now at my lowest weight in… 10 years? seems a bit implausible, but i guess the scale doesn’t lie. eating mostly keto + not going out seem to have done more in 3 months than all my half-assed diets in previous years. i still have some kilos to go, but feeling pretty pleased with myself already. :)
– saw our first western yellow wagtail and also an iberian green woodpecker!
– the fields all around us smell like orange blossom and it’s just so dreamy.