Snow and hot chocolate
It has finally started to snow here in Copenhagen. The snow was falling for some hours in big, luxurious clumps. They melted very quickly, but watching them fall was a magical experience. Every season has something magical about it. I associate late autumn-early winter with delicious scents of fallen leaves, fir trees, spices used in Christmas related pastries. And with lights. And hot chocolate. My mother used to make hot chocolate very often for my brother and me when we were young. She looked like a witch (in the best possible sense of this word!) whisking cocoa powder and sugar into warm milk. She would always use one cup of milk, one tablespoon of cocoa powder, and one tablespoon of sugar per person. She used cow milk and white sugar. When I make hot chocolate, I use oat milk, organic brown sugar and organic cocoa powder that is sold in cardboard boxes. Some fellow humans add various toppings, but I don't. The flavour is gentle and not too sweet.
The whisk has a story. My partner used to own an immersion blender that had this attachment. At some point, the blender stopped working and he was going to recycle it. I took the attachment to use as a manual whisk. It works well. This reminded me of a recent conversation with my fellow humans about borrowing, or otherwise obtaining without buying new, items that are not expensive. I believe that we should do it. For me, the question is not whether or not I can afford a certain object, but rather I strongly believe that the very best option for nature is to use what already exists. Of course saving the blender attachment from recycling is a tiny sustainability action, but it's a good example of a simple action that many fellow humans can implement, to nurture a different mode of being in, and relating with, the world.