Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

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Eating out

Eating out

A temporary bliss

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Oct 01, 2022
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“Exterior of a Restaurant in Asnières” (1887), Vincent van Gogh

A friend treated us this week to a new restaurant that is tremendously fashionable, very reviewed and super expensive, no subtlety, no ease – and all of this recently hitting a point of insane din, banging-on-pans loudness that no experience, definitely no food can match.

And averse as I am …

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