We all need nourishment of one sort or another to thrive. With that in mind, check out this month’s recommended ways to feed the mind, body, and soul.
If you have a recommendation you think we should check out, send it our way – we’re always looking for new and interesting recommendations to share with our community.
This Classic Orange Beef recipe from Rachel Soszynski via Food & Wine is the perfect fall fare. Full of flavour, rich, fragrant, and mildly spicy (you can adjust your spice-level based on your preference), it pairs beautifully with either rice or noodles. You can also make the recipe your own by adding whatever mixed veggies you’ve got on hand by giving them a quick sauté. The flank steak is both tender and crispy in this recipe, and the orange sauce is so delicious don’t count on leftovers!
All the Light We Cannot See is a Netflix series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr of the same name. It follows the story of teenagers Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy with a talent for radios forced to fight for the Nazis during World War II. It tells a beautiful story about how we experience the world, and about hope and human connection amid the horrors and destruction of war. Both the Netflix series and the book are stellar, and well worth checking out – and well-timed with Remembrance Day coming up later this month.
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman offers a new take on a well-worn subject. Burkeman argues that we’re inundated with advice on how to optimize or hack our way into being ever more productive and efficient in an effort to get everything done. Burkeman takes a different approach though – in this often hilarious and highly practical book, he argues that our time on earth is ridiculously brief, and in order to make the most of it we need to accept finitude and do things differently.
Jody Maffett, an author local to us here in the Ottawa Valley, has created an innovative journal with the title It’s Been Nice. But now I’m dead. (Or perhaps just really, really sick.). Maffett created the journal after her father suffered a traumatic brain injury and life changed overnight. It’s full of practical tips and prompts about what really needs to be taken care of in the unfortunate event that you’re incapacitated or (gulp!) dead – stuff like what social media sites you use, what happens to your pets, who your investment contact is, and more. Visit the Highlands Country Store in McDonalds Corners or Flint & Honey in Perth to buy a copy locally, or find it on Amazon.
