Fresh Peach Pie and Other Late Summer Treats
Hank & Baxter in the throws of delight.
“The opposite of depression is not happiness but delight.”
- Gregory Boyle
It is the season for my favorite dessert. FRESH Peach Pie. Not just any. My sister’s Fresh Peach Pie. And right now, Magpie has my sister’s Fresh Peach Pie on their menu. I’ve eaten it for breakfast two days in a row. Highly recommend.
Other delights from this summer:
Tattoos on the Heart by Gregory Boyle - A Jesuit priest who runs Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. I think I cried at least twice every chapter. It’s a beautiful picture of compassion on a heart level. Listen to it (Gregory reads it). Cry. Be reminded what a good life we have. And remember that compassion is free.
Tampopo - a Japanese “ramen western”- I recommend typing in ‘Best Movies About Food’ into Google. I knew it was a good list when Babette’s Feast and Big Night also topped the list. Tampopo is unexpected. An ode to the love of food. Also, you will want ramen after.
I went off social media in July. I got my mind back. Read a lot. Got bored and didn’t reach for my phone. Wondered if I should take up a craft. Didn’t. And now I’m back on the platform, trying to give it the respect it deserves. Or should I say, the distance I need to be human while running a business.
“Anything worth doing is worth failing at.”* Go fail at something. Until you don’t. That’s my plan.
*Gregory Boyle