Journal Entry: 12/01/25

With Winter’s approach, light softens, days contract, and our homes become quiet containers for our attention. In this slower season, objects speak more clearly, reminding us that beauty often resides in the still moments we overlook.

As shadows lengthen and darkness gathers, we’re urged to slow down, pause and take note. This is the season when rooms become sanctuaries, and when the simple act of setting the table or lighting a lamp feels ceremonial.

On that note, we offer a simple meditation. Turn inward to the comforts of home and consider the beauty that can be found in the everyday. Ponder a bowl of fruit, a jug of water, the folds of fabric, or the shape of a spoon.

Through slowing down, we see more — how a surface catches light, how materials age, how objects gather meaning simply by being lived with.

Still life painters have understood this truth for centuries. Their compositions reflect the quiet poetry of the ordinary, showing us that furniture, like fruit on a table, can anchor a room while also capturing something much more ethereal — the very moments that define life itself.

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

— William Carlos Williams

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