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I am making my first ever croissants and i think i am gonna live blog

A catastrophic incident with incorporating butter. Managed to save it just in time before i could have gone further and ruined it even more which is something i am very prone to usually. Resting the dough again and trying in another hour

Managed to placed the butter well but messed up the 3-lock in and it's warm here so i have been running back and forth from kitchen to fridge. Still hoping something good comes out of this

The 3 lock in done..the butter started melting right when i was gonna roll that so kept in fridge

Babies doubled in size and i could see some layers and it made me happy... Now they are in the oven. The room smells amazing

“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation

The older I get, the more I realize being in a hurry is a terrible way to live your life.

This has been my biggest realisation as I entered adulthood. The hurrying didn’t get me anywhere I wanted and it made the journey feel terrible and joyless. I remembered nothing when I hurried. The hurrying happens when you focus on the end result. No one told me that you don’t just get to point A to B, there are things you learn, mistakes that happen, stagnations that come and working through in the grey a lot and when you hurry you half ass all these and learn nothing from the experience. It made me an anxious person. I realised where my tendency to hurry came from, why i thought i needed to hurry and what was it that i really wanted and what worth it had when it came without the wisdom that comes from being patient and understanding of the path you are taking and what it takes to really walk it.

columns of kelp underwater are so gorgeous. absolutely one of my favorite things in the natural world

might just mess around and reclaim my human worth as intrinsic instead of defined by my productivity

gonna start saying "this is setting men back 10 years" whenever some guy says some dumb shit

"this is really gonna hurt the male community"