Category: Books

  • Pickled Onions

    Pickled Onions

    One day you wake up and you are having coffee while reading a cookbook, and the recipe looks good, and you don’t have greek yogurt but you made a batch of home made yogurt last night, and you don’t have red onions but you have the American white onions that are sweeter than the European […]

  • 46 days

    46 days

    I finished ‘Du côté de chez Swann‘ by Proust. That was my quarantine read. There are 5 more volumes but not yet. I liked it when Swann idealizes Colette through Vermeer portraits. Vermeer portraits are beautiful. Krista Tippet, on the On Being podcast, interviews Stephen Batchelor about ‘Finding Ease in Aloneness’. They talk about Vermeer […]

  • Un regalo del pasado

    Un regalo del pasado

    Estas navidades recibí un regalo de una amiga de infancia. Mientras buscaba libros en el trastero de su madre para su hijo, encontró un libro de la colección Barco de Vapor que leíamos de pequeñas. El libro era mío y tenía una dedicatoria. Me hizo mucha ilusión recibirlo y ver la dedicatoria de mi padre […]

  • Breakfast with Myself

    Breakfast with Myself

  • Observe, Collect, Draw!

    Observe, Collect, Draw!

    A day of communication in Slack, with visual language, inspired by the book from Giorgia Lupi “Observe, Collect, Draw!”