Plowman's Lunch: Beach Week Edition

Good reads, good looks, and good eats from the salt spray.

As I mentioned last week, the Family CWD has been down the shore for the last week, soaking in the last of summer. With all the activity — beach days, pool parties, spearfishing, reading No More Noisy Nights on repeat — I haven’t had much time to write. So instead, I’m going to leave you with a plowman’s lunch — some things to read, some imagery to set a late summer mood, and some photos of what we’ve eaten recently¹ to maybe inspire.

We’ll see you back here next week with a return to our usual programming and an update on Uncle Steady and my spearfishing adventures.

Enjoy the weekend, folks.

READING

Dogs Remind Us of What Matters in Life — I’ve read Epictetus’s advice to remind yourself that at any time those you love may die repeatedly since I started dabbling in Stoicism, but it took this piece by

Sam Alaimo

for me to truly make a connection on how to “use it” in my own life.

25 Principles for Cooking —

Myles Snider

’s simple ways to be a better home cook.

You Wouldn’t Understand Me If I Told You — that I wish I had written this lovely piece by

Jacob Sotak

about fishing and the outdoors and love and life and all that and more.

On Courage — which is something that any parent hopes that their children have, and we can only hope that they learn for themselves that their courage is bigger than their fear, like

Leo Jenkins

teaches his daughter.

Whiskey, Stars, and a Hawk’s Last Stand — and an essay about a whole lot more than that, from

Alex Wilder

.

Sunday Gravy #7 — in which

Christian Pung

writes about his favorite gear, a perennial favorite topic of mine (see Item #2 below).

I also published a few things other places over the last couple months: The Five Components of Radical Eating for my friends

Madison & Sebastian

at

Back to Our Roots

; this piece on storing your gear for fellow gear junkie

Henry Rundio

and

DTRH

; my “bison guy,” Matt, and I collaborated on a piece for the July issue of

WARKITCHEN

; and

ROCKY

was kind enough to publish two of my essays² in the stunning SUMMER/FALL print edition (which you can pick up here).

OBSERVING

EATING

1. Apologies to Papa CWD, but I didn’t get a single photo of the half-bushel of crabs we put down. Next year.

2. Technically, three: “Radical Baby Steps” and “On Knowing a Guy,” which were combined into one double feature, and “How to Box a Lobster,” which is one of my favorite essays I’ve written in awhile.