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Can’t say I’d change anything in the magical sense, that’s what personal growth is for! For example, my arms are weaker than my legs, so it gives me something to work on in the gym! 💪

I’ve been working on personal growth with my career as I study for my real estate licence exam, and in mental and physical health I’m making strides that at times felt slow and emotionally challenging but I am seeing great progress.

As we say in metro Detroit about one of our major highways, treat yourself like I-75: never stop working on yourself no matter how inconvenient it is for everyone else 😁 I’m sure people wouldn’t mind a magical wand for that trek of road though.

The number one is still recovering from my sprained ankle 3 weeks ago, specifically walking slowly and stretching my calf which is sore after such long neglect. My pace is slower than usual but it feels great to not be in the boot! More pertinent to tomorrow as a time constraint is making moussaka from scratch, since I won’t have time Wednesday. I’ve got my groceries and will take that on then!

Not much right now. I’ve got a sprained foot and injured wrist, so my physical limitations mostly keep me limited to reading, gaming, and sitting on my patio among my plants and flowers.

Food (especially fruit), nature, hugs, and sunshine (especially with fluffy clouds mixed in it)!

Yoshimi battles the pink robots by The Flaming Lips.

I would like a non-European centric encyclopedia of world knowledge and wisdom from the sources our forefathers overlooked, including the various historical, cultural, ecological, and entertainment views they held (and also how those have changed and adapted over time). There are so many people out there I know nothing about, so I’d love to be educated!

I got a hand written recipe to make Japanese pork cutlets (tonkatsu) and in my first attempt to make it, I smoked the apartment out so badly that I could barely see through the smoke layer, opened both my front door and patio door, and had to put bags over the smoke detectors to prevent them from going off. Sometimes during that year living in Japan I would cook for 1-2 hours, throw the inedible attempt into the garbage, then hop on my bike to get dinner at a family restaurant. It took a lot of fails to finally become a confident cook!

I walk after meals, in the evenings, and whenever I want to catch up with someone over the phone, so very often. I had been running about 4 times a week as I trained for a half marathon that will take place tomorrow, but unfortunately I wanted to run in a forested area on Tuesday and sprained my ankle. Being homebound with a boot on my foot reminds me how much I love walking and running, and I hope to run the half marathon distance on my own once I get better. I’m running further than I ever had in my life and I don’t want the training to end here.

Next month I’m planning to travel to Northern Michigan, about a week later I will visit Montreal and Quebec, and at the end of the month I’ll go to the south of France to visit Nice and then head to the countryside for a friend’s wedding. In December I may visit Thailand or Sri Lanka.

Daily writing prompt

What foods would you like to make?

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Disregarding what my appetite is interested in, I could enjoy making a tuna broccoli souffle because I like making bechamel. A simple sofrito of onions and olive oil on a low heat is a great way to start building up cooking energy. Tiramisu reminds me of all the times I made it with my Italian and French roommates which is both a lovely memory and creates a not-so-sweet treat as you separate egg yolks from whites. When I make butashogayaki (Japanese pork ginger over rice), I love the smell as the grated onion & ginger sauce hits the hot frying pan! Boiling things and putting the lid on while reducing to a simmer feels satisfying because you can relax as it cooks, like making an Italian chicken dish until it falls off the bone since they love those long cooking dishes. As they say in “The Hundred-Foot Journey”, food is memories.