Field Notes: 6 new paintings 🎨
Plus, tips for what not to wash in the kitchen, connection is a vitamin, and a nudge to get outside
Hello, dear friends! I hope you are all floating through this season ok. I’ve been painting in starts and spurts, savoring the brightest colors and the experimentation, the unknowing of how the canvas will change. The surprise is the best.
A dozen canvases, perhaps finished, perhaps not, are now stacked in the corner, and I’ve started wondering if I should frame them and sell them. I don’t need them all. Perhaps you want one? Something to add cheer or jolt your Tuesday in the best way? These are each 18 inches by 24 inches, a nice medium-ish size.
Onto this week’s Field Notes, three things I’ve run across lately: something surprising, something to do today, something to remember.
1} Something surprising
This first health-related surprise comes from Ten Crazy Things I've Learned About Foodborne Illness by
. Her newsletter always brings new interesting facts and insights, whether you are a parent or not.Among the 10 things:
#4: “Don’t wash your poultry. It does not decrease the risk that you’ll get sick. It actually increases your risk, because the washing contaminates your sink and other surfaces.”
Ahhhhh.
And this one, though does anyone do this?
#6: “Don’t wash your eggs. If your eggs are cold and your water is warm, or vice versa, you can actually pull bacteria into the egg through the shell.”
Read 8 more surprising things here.
2} Something to do today
Go outside.
When there is no time,
that’s when a spell outside will work its magic best.
Side note: I loved
’s recent thoughts on Evening Constitutionals. She writes: “We finish dinner and, leaving all the plates and spoons dirty on the table, we stroll. We’re slow, because one of us is two, and we don’t talk much, because one of us is two. None of this takes away from the value of the walk, which is large and hard to quantify.” ❤️3} Something to remember
“Connection is an essential vitamin. You can’t live without it.”
— Dr. Edward Hallowell
🔗 Bonus links 🔗
The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works (The New York Times gift link)
Presence deck by Bruce Daisley on how to be in the flow state of connection at work
A Good Prognosis, a poem by Joan Baranow (JAMA)
To our journeys,
Brianne
p.s. I’m coming out of a spring hibernation and thinking about the next session of Winter Camp and other Odyssey of the Body gatherings.
So, a poll: Which ones would you like? If you are willing to chat with me about ideas, let me know! Thanks!