France tired me out such that, after a good-old-days weekend in London (which, naturally, tired me out even further), I retreated to rural Ireland for relief. There’s no Internet here, no deadlines, no distractions, and I am left at last—following three months of sleeping nightly in different beds and couches and floors—alone with my thoughts.
I am spending three weeks working at Ballymaloe Cookery School, and days float by in grayscale or four-color depending on the slant of the sun, each a comfortable reiteration of salad-washing, mushroom-chopping, dish-washing, and sniffing the pearlescent vapors wafting up in curlicues off fat simmering pots of stew.
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