June 29th ‘Familiar Touch’ (2025)
I didn’t feel like photographing today. This morning I made a cup of black tea and waited until 11:17am to break my 36-hour fast. In my experience doing 36-hour fast, the body reacts in two different ways:
You are so hungry that you aren’t hungry anymore
or
Your body is shivering and your head is throbbing
I guess your body reacts based on the last thing you ate as well as other factors such as amount of energy exerted.
Find things to busy yourself with to distract yourself from thinking about food. I don’t necessarily feel it but if you look at the science behind fasting and autophagy, you know your body is benefiting from the starvation.
I’m using Squarespace to design my website. Originally I bought my domain from GoDaddy and linked it with my previous website provider Smugmug which I was not happy with because they were using early website design tool and couldn’t create my website in the way that I wanted. The reason why it took me the longest time to switch from Smugmug to Squarespace is the same reason people don’t want to move to a new apartment with moving furniture driving back in forth in a U-Haul rental truck. It was that kind of feeling.
But the tools to customize your site is solid. The color customization is going to be the hardest part because it has options to change colors for very very specific labels.
This morning and lunch time I watched some Squarespace tutorials to learn more of where everything is at so over time I can have better control designing a webpage and not guessing where everything is at.
I’m just about done with the novel Strange Pictures. It’s such a unique reading experience and the four chapters that I thought were separate stories from one another are all connected including the 4-page prequel! Looking forward to reading Strange House that’s sitting on my desk right now and then Strange Building which is set to release later this year.
In the evening, I went to watch Familiar Touch directed by Sarah Friedland at a small theater. Already one of my favorites this year but unfortunately I don’t this will be on many people’s radar. The beautiful Kathleen Chalfant plays Ruth who suffers from memory loss and her son, whom she has forgotten that he is her son, sends her off to a retirement home. She forgets things here and there but she can give you in full detail how to make borsch soup and still knows to cut up fruit efficiently as well as plate and garnish a dish from her days as a cook. With her interactions with the staff in the retirement home you get hints of her life when she was in her prime and even those days are long gone, those good qualities of her still rise to the surface.
It has some sad moments but scenes you heard the entire audience laughing. It does make you think of the elders in your family when they are nearing the end of their lives and the problems that it comes with and how we plan to deal with those issues.
