Hello, my friend!
The catch-and-release program continues in the Price household! Our children coming home for grounding. A sense that everything is okay in the world.
↓ In today’s email:
- This week’s inspiration: Dinner at home
- Latest blog post: What We’re Talking About When We Talk About Grounding
- What we saw this week: Art geek in paradise
This Week’s Inspiration: Dinner at home
What do I mean by grounding? Check out the post below.
But here’s the sense of it:
Heirloom potatoes from our garden, sliced, tossed in olive oil and Maldon salt, and roasted at 475 degrees. Bavette steak from a local farm, cooked over flame, under the stars. Trumpet mushrooms (not personally foraged, but local), sliced and roasted with lemon oil and roasted garlic. And last but not least, Brussels sprouts, tiny and crispy!
Foods that grow close to the earth, or tucked beneath the soil, make us feel cozy and safe.
I almost forgot dessert: an apple galette, part Honeycrisp, part Macoun, its juices turning into apple caramel toffee.
So with the food and fire going, Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations (circa 1959) playing, Gracie snoring in the corner, you sink into the alpaca-brown sofa and close your eyes. Feeling safe.
This is what I mean by groundedness.
It’s sublime to have parents who create this world. But as adults, how do we create this sanctuary? How do we connect to the earth, our soul people, and ourselves?
Let me know and report back.
Latest Blog Post
What We’re Talking About When We Talk About Grounding
For us, home is sanctuary.
How do we feel at home in our own bodies, connected to the earth, and safe?
It’s not only what we eat, but how we eat it. Even the healthiest food, consumed through a straw while darting in and out of traffic, is a very different experience from sitting down to eat.
Beyond food, other activities can be grounding too. There’s research on what’s called forest bathing, which is exactly what it sounds like: being in nature, and more specifically among trees.
And grounding through food is easy, in part because it requires some baking, sautéing, or roasting.
Honestly, you have to eat anyway.
Autumn photograph by Sasha Israel.
What We Saw This Week
Art geek in paradise
Calder Gardens, Philadelphia, PA
Calder Gardens not only shows a revolving exhibit of Calder sculptures from the Calder Foundation, but the building itself is perfection, made by the Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron. All of it is surrounded by a Piet Oudolf garden.
Calder Gardens opened in 2025 and was created and designed specifically for Calder’s work. Herzog & de Meuron’s austere lines lead to capacious galleries of Venetian plaster, hemlock and exposed concrete. All cocooning Calder’s famous mobiles and more static structures. One gallery feels like you’re inside a 14-foot egg, where the floor falls into infinity, or at least feels that way.
Like matryoshka dolls, each layer reveals something new.
Famed garden designer Piet Oudolf’s nascent garden will grow into an amazing environment, dense with plant material, with a palette evolving with the seasons and a structure that lends itself even to snow in the dead of winter. He’s the designer behind the High Line in Manhattan.
Sometimes it’s nice to experience art alone, but doing so with those you love can be a chance to see the world a bit differently, together.
Julien and Mama, Oct 2026
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