Nourish & Nurture: A Season to Savor and Renew
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
— Hafiz
As autumn settles in and October arrives, the outside world around us subtly shifts. Gardens grow quiet, leaves start showing signs of turning, and the afternoon light starts to show its shadows during the golden hours. Ingredients at the market have deeper hues and the meals we are cooking in the kitchen call for warmth and more soothing foods. In these slow, seasonal turns, we find our inner world called for the same.
The slower pace of the season becomes an invitation: to retreat, to reflect, to reconnect with what nourishes us most. It’s a time for soothing rituals and comforting meals, creating the inner landscapes in which body, mind, and spirit can be tended to with more intentional care.
Fall welcomes us back to the hearth and home. To cook, to create, to thoughtfully contemplate how we wish to spend our days these last few months of the year. The kitchen shifts into our laboratory: a space for alchemy and experimentation, where food as medicine is our mantra. Healing, healthy, heartwarming.
Begin with a few of our favorite fall recipes, like Pumpkin & Mascarpone Ravioli with Browned Butter and Fried Sage Leaves Rich and grounding, it brings together golden butter, earthy sage, and the sweetness of our Pumpkin & Sage Pesto.
Nourishment is not only found in a recipe, it’s found in the daily rituals we hold as a practice. A way of noticing what is of substance. A way of remembering that everything you touch, taste, and tend to has the potential to bring you back to yourself. The small gestures that slow us down, that warm us from within, are often the most meaningful. They may seem simple, but they’re deeply symbolic and remind us of what truly sustains and provides the kind of sustenance we yearn for in all areas of our life.
It’s in the art book left open on the bedside table. The scent that imbues beauty throughout the home. The hand-loomed wool throw on the back of a couch. The playlist that lifts the mood
If you're not already reading our Sunday Slowdown: A Luminous Thread by Alisa Barry, we invite you to join her on Substack. It's a beautiful weekly reflection and contemplation, words that may help to orient your inner self this season.
Let this be your season to RE/SET, to create an intentional retreat. A time to slow down and tend to your inner and outer landscape. To fill your studio, your kitchen-laboratory, and your days with beauty and abundance. To remember: how we live is how we love. Begin at home.
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