various sizes of joy
Jun. 5th, 2025 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett- On Tuesday, I picked a kohlrabi. The stem itself got eaten at the plot; the leaves I brought home to cook and eat subsequently rather than compost them. I stuck them in a glass of water to keep them going while I work out what exactly it is I want to do, and -- they are stunning. I am enjoying them so much every time I go past them: dark blue-tinged green leaves, pink-purple stems and veins (the cultivar is Azur; I do not currently have photos but will attempt to get my act together tomorrow.)
- I have four spikes of ginger, one thoroughly unfurled into leaves, and at least one more thinking hard about it. I do not expect to wind up self-sufficient in ginger but I am very much enjoying the experiment.
- a word you've never understood (Prophet, 9k words). I did not read it all in one gulp -- I paused to take notes -- and I'm now on my second read through, which could in theory be more of a gulp but mysteriously I seem to be taking more notes and also remembering that I wanted to shake the internet for more information about the experience termed "aftersensations", for Book Purposes. (Also I think I've lured another person into at least starting the book...)
- Asparagus for lunch! Still in season; still delicious.
- My house once again contains Large Quantities of hazelnuts and pecans. I Monch.
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Date: 2025-06-06 07:12 am (UTC)... specifically! Because I have A Current Special Interest. :-p
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Date: 2025-06-06 07:57 am (UTC)(And also thank you for the rabbit hole, because possibly I need to consider some things about how my nervous system processes pain ...)
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Date: 2025-06-06 08:50 am (UTC)Part of the reason I am prodding the aftersensations literature with sticks is that it's an experience I also have in pleasant circumstances, but digging that out from The Focus On Pain is... tedious. Def some kind of sensory hypersensitivity link, though, and the "wow so a completely fucking different set of neurons is implicated in this phenomenon" is definitely relevant to my interests!