Refresh

Cooling food down is as much a part of cooking—especially baking—as heating it up.

Rest and recovery is as much a part of exercise as the actual workout.

Silence is as much a part of speech as sound, and whitespace is as much a part of writing as words.

So what? So nothing exists without its opposite: big deal. That’s just the rising and setting sun; the tide rolling in and out; inhaling and exhaling.

Where does inspiration come from? How do these things become new again? By breaking the routine, perhaps. By shaking up and disrupting the rhythm with mistakes, with obstacles, with constraints. Maybe even with boredom.

A missing recipe ingredient can trigger an educational search for a substitute ingredient or an alternative recipe.

Anything can be exercise if you carry more weight with you, and it can help you better understand and appreciate the way you move and hold your body.

Haiku poetry requires a specific number and pattern of syllables, forcing a certain kind of economy of words.

There is a difference between the cycle of presence and absence that’s needed to make a thing work in the short term; indeed, to work at all. Over the long term, something different is needed to introduce variety and help form new ideas.