I came back to the kitchen today after a few weeks of feeling no motivation to cook at all. I made hot cross buns for the first time and roughly followed this Donna Hay recipe.

“As Zen master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi said, life is like getting into a boat that’s just about to sail out to sea and sink”. I’m rereading When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice for Difficult Times, by Buddhist teacher and nun Pema Chodron. Each and every page is filled with the kind of words that no one else has the courage to say to you. Your close friends and family will probably sugarcoat anything you need to face, and everyone else doesn’t care enough to go through all the trouble of saying the truth.

On a lighter note, How to be lucky.

On an even lighter note, A New Pasta Shape Was Just Invented.