January favorites
marinated beets, book/film recommendations, swimsuit shopping
This is volume one of a new series for paid subscribers, in which I gather up some little notes on my delights lately: things I’ve enjoyed reading, watching, cooking, and doing this month— or, things in which I’ve found inspiration or beauty. Hopefully it will be a delight for your senses, a little freshness: a mixed bouquet of this and that.
January is almost over, and although winter is still thickly spread, on some days it is thins through a bit, diaphanous, sheer enough to let spring show through. The light is seeping in to the evening hours, bathing us in gold. I love nothing better than to find a slice of sun, sit in it and read a little while, soaking up the brightness— “We can make do with so little, just the hint / of warmth, the slanted light”:
