I was on the toilet one morning this week, reading tech news, when the brightest lightbulb in the universe went off in my mind. You see up until that point, I had an optimistic view of my day ahead. And in that decisive moment, I saw it like a photographer for National Geographic capturing a cheetah on a safari, I saw my mood turn.
It was a fairly innocent discussion thread, but the point of it was for people to question the popularity of ‘note-taking apps’. I use Notion mostly, but I am aware that there is a whole world of note-taking apps that people debate all day long. And I found myself in this random storm of opinions, and it didn’t take long at all before this negative vibe started to rub off on me. I closed the thread and finished my business in the bathroom, and I saw everything I needed to see.
Our focus in life can be derailed as quickly and easily as reading a silly piece of news or a discussion thread about note-taking apps.
Pay attention to this ability for your mood to turn this week. You can see it most easily in the morning or late at night when all the social particles from the day have either disappeared or not been able to emerge yet.
Photos from the Morning
Lately the moon has been setting late, so there was an overlap with the sunrise. I think now the moon is completely gone (it’s at 3.9% visibility, waning crescent).
Many mornings lately the sky has been clear so I can’t resist to grab whatever I can. In December most mornings were overcast as I remember.
Very good episode of podcast for you this week in which I just play strange music with visuals from the Eggyverse Watch it here (30 minutes).
Also watch my Dharma talk that also takes place in the Eggyverse (30 seconds).
Your Bagels
The most important part of the newsletter! This is from Missy Cohen (IG), and it’s a plate of Gryfe’s bagels that she will freeze not long after the photo was taken. Gryfe’s has a legendary place in Toronto history.
If you are around my age, as a child there wasn’t the plethora of options for bagels like there are now. So it would be common that your parents would bring home Gryfe’s on the weekend.
If it wasn’t Gryfe’s it was another place called Bagel World (my personal fave at the time as they sold chunky “twisters”), and if it wasn’t Bagel World it was Haymishe which is a name that couldn’t possibly be more Jewish sounding.
Also common at the time: eating margarine. Margarine was acceptable because it spread easily and no one cared about their health in those days. Even margarine itself got wise the to the new age health game these days as I see it often makes itself with olive oil now.
Send me your bagels or brunch equivalent!
Just reply back to this email with the photo and how you prefer to be credited.
Love,
Elliott Eggyverse Fienberg