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BUMBLING AROUND Yuri makes the coffee. I get to bumble around. My coffee, though, is like my sacred elixir in the morning. Before coffee, I meditate for 15 to 30 minutes. Sometimes Yuri and I will have our coffee together and talk about how horrible the world is. And then I’ll jump into work. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/nyregion/lena-imamura

I have A.D.H.D., so it’s like gamifying and making everything novel and fun is really important. This audio comes on that I programmed and generated through A.I., where this lady basically says, like, “Commander, the dawn has started and the spaceship engines are on, the crew is standing by and you’re critical in this mission.” And so that’s what g

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Coffee With My Dad

When I go home to visit my parents in Kentucky, my dad and I will pour two cups of coffee with an unhealthy amount of hazelnut Coffee-Mate and sit and catch up. It’s quiet, and we check in on all things — family, health, our opposing politics, parenting. He gives me the best life advice, and I sometimes help him log onto the Wi-Fi

“He connects to the classical world in a way that is deeply emotive,” Dean said. “I’m interested in where your mind goes when you look at one of his works. It can go to memory, it can go to envy — you think, ‘God, that’s so perfect.’”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly-menil.html

“I can’t draw in front of people,” Dean added. “It’s a very solitary thing.”

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“Dean, like Twombly, is fixated with time,” The Guardian in 2011. “She has photographed a ruined modernist house on an overgrown island, filmed nuns eking out their days in a dying religious community, and recorded the last days of a Kodak factory.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly-menil.html

“It pushes against technological interfaces that are removing us further and further from what is real,” Michelle White added. “Her drawings — and the simple act of revealing that there is a human person making a mark on a surface in time — is both fundamental and profound.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/06/arts/design/tacita-dean-drawings-twombly

Breville Espresso Machine

I spent a lot of money on that machine; it’s not going to waste. I used to work in a coffee shop, so I have experience tamping down and getting the right grind size and pressure. Sometimes, before I go to bed, I think about how good my coffee’s going to be in the morning. - Ella Purnell

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