If you know Hala, you know that she expresses her love in many ways and cooking is just one of them. For example, we rented an inn during our wedding weekend and invited the majority of our guests to stay with us. The morning after the ceremony, Hala, along with her crew, cooked brunch for all 17 guests - each of them had the chance to experience the love I am lucky to receive every day.
Tonight, I came home to Hala cooking this creamy mushroom pasta with the most delicious roasted root veggies. It was perfect.
“Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in daydreams.”
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
Here is our space - memories housed, sunlight giving life, our wedding on replay…
You know what? It’s been a good week - calm, grounding, validating. Tonight, we treated ourselves to dinner at this new gem of a spot. The good news? It’s on our side of the river and the food is ~incredible~. If you know, you know.
In “The Decade of Saying All That I Could Not Say” Mona Eltahawy wrote, “Men should kiss each other more often and kill less - much less.”
This line has been sitting with me ever since I read it. It rings true to my belief that everyone is a little queer and maybe, just maybe, if the world embraced who we really are, there would be less hate.
Pictured: One of many flowers on our beautiful, thriving peace lily.