Beantown Brunch #4

Today, we decided to try making brunch for ourselves.

I'd say we were successful.

On the menu:

Eggocados 

Homefries

Brioche french toast with fresh fruit

Scrambled eggs

and

Mimosas 

Beantown Brunch #3

Beantown Brunches #3 : Metropolis Cafe 

The South End is Boston's brunch haven. For blocks, Tremont Street is lined with luxe eateries and trendy cafes. For the first brunch of the New Year, my friend Ryan and I had planned to visit the locally-beloved Aquitaine (a $10 prix-fixe brunch is hard to beat), but to our dismay they were not open for the morning because it was not the weekend. And so we serendipitously ended up across the street (I told you, lined with brunchspots) at Metropolis... 

"Beautiful things don't ask for attention."

To see things thousands of miles away,

things hidden behind walls and within rooms

things dangerous to come to,

to draw closer,

to see life,

see the world,

that is the purpose of life.

"just to love, and be loved in return"

Vincent van Gogh supposedly said:

The way to know life is to love many things.

To me, this is easily one of the most beautiful thoughts ever had.

The way to know life is to love many things.
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But it is my guess that he was lonely when he spoke these words.

The way to know life is to love many things?
. 

The way to know life is just to love.

Beantown Brunch #2

Beantown Brunches #2 : Doo Wop Diner 

You know the type. We all have one: that go-to hole-in-the-wall breakfast provider and hangover healer beloved by locals and misunderstood by everyone else. For Bostonians that grew up down the Orange Line anywhere from Wellington to Oak Grove, this place is the Doo Wop Diner on Main Street in Malden. Between its $3.50 breakfast plate and its two-block distance from the city's high school, there's probably not an adolescent in that corner of greater Boston that doesn't know the place. It can't hurt that it's only a block away from the New England Coffee Company either.

 Unless you're from the Everett-Malden-Medford area, Doo Wop's hardly a destination brunchspot, but if you find yourself at that end of the Orange Line, I recommend the Ted Williams with a nice hot mug of Beantown's finest joe (sorry, Dunks). 

Stay far, far away from the oatmeal, though.

Outfit of the Day 12.04

Wednesday, 4 December 2013

I encourage you, reader, to do as I did 

on this lovely first night of December.

Megan Chance wrote:

"You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. 

To deny is to invite madness. 

To accept is to control."

Take a walk in the place you feel most comfortable 

and face the matters you find most uncomfortable. 

You might just stumble upon some control.