Kathmandu Restaurant
Albany, California
A restaurant whose kind food I will reminisce on my entire life.
Be Still and Know
Japanese Tea Garden
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back… simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.
—Pema Chodron
Motherland
In a Victorian tea shop in the middle of San Francisco near my thirty-first birthday, I fell in love with Russian tea. And by fell in love, I mean a door opened that was curious—deep and unexpected.
A Ring
What if one day I could make a ring like this?
Respite
I think artists have a special kiss from God: There’s a baby flashing through the sky, down to earth. Here—God throws him a kiss—and it’s a curse on his life forever. A blissful curse. Because he always wants to kiss God back. That’s what talent is and the feeling of creativity: To want to kiss the world back. And when you do your own work you are giving back to God the original blessing. But if you can’t do it, you hold it inside like a terrible curse which eats away at you forever.
—Mendocino Malady, Bobby Markels
