Enjoying the Little Things

For fifteen years I ate my toast standing over the sink. Then I got a plate down and sat on a chair instead. Same toast.

The essays here are about the small good things we already have, and the plate we never get down for them.

• 08 Oct, 2026 Toast on a Plate, or Enjoying the Little Things

  For fifteen years I ate toast over the sink, then paid fourteen dollars in town to sit down with toast. Enjoying the little things took a plate and a chair.

• 28 Jan, 2025 Time You Can Touch: Musings on Watches

  My mechanical watch runs two minutes slow, and I've grown fond of it. It doesn't buzz or count my steps. It needs a wind each morning, and might outlive me.

• 21 Jan, 2025 Sacred Minutes: The Tiny Pilgrimage

  Explore the practice of "tiny pilgrimages" - small, mindful moments that transform mundane workplace routines into rituals of presence and intention.

• 11 Jan, 2025 Notes from the Kitchen Sink

  Discover the radical power of doing one thing at a time through mindful dishwashing. A meditation on finding freedom and resistance in life's most ordinary moments.

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