Choosing the hour, the date, the moment.
Locking it in.
(Whatever that looks like to you.)
That could be the difference between the thing happening.
Or not.
Works for your daily exercise, the day you’ll finally quit, the vacation you keep dreaming about.
Choose the date, lock it in, watch it happen.
“Rob and Robin are the rare food writers who are both dead-serious reporters and boundlessly joyful writers. If there were a mini Pulitzer category that honored the extreme short form, they would be buried under medals; play spin-the-Robs-blurb and you will no doubt land on a 50-word delight. On a slice of pizza in 2008: “Doughy, saucy, and so overloaded with cheese it suffers from chronic droop syndrome.”
When I first moved to New York, I obsessively read New York magazine (and carted back issues through every move and apartment for years). Here it was, everything I ever needed to know about the city! One of my favorite columns was the Underground Gourmet, written under the co-byline of Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld. If I learned about the food of the city, surely I could understand all the rest of it.
Well, they’re retiring after 32 years (!) at the magazine, and this staff note says it all. You can tell these were two people who really love their work. (h/t Aransas)
A Quick Hit of Nature
Here’s a lovely, 30-second nature walk through the Central Park reservoir, one of my favorite places in the city. Now I’ll actually know the names of the plants I pass.