This is oddly relevant today. I think we live in a simulation and it broke.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day-for-a-year-and-it-changed-my-life
From the post:
>When Vickie Hardin Woods retired, she knew she needed a plan. “I was worried about losing my carefully crafted identity as a professional. I was looking for something to carry me through that time … What else can I be?”
She decided to do – rather than be – something new. Hardin Woods would bake a pie every day for a year, using fresh ingredients local to her home in Salem, Oregon – and she would give each pie away.
“I knew it would make me reach out every day to somebody, so I wouldn’t be isolated in my house. And it gave me a routine,” she says. Hardin Woods was 61. The year before, she had been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. “I was trying to show myself that I could still think and be creative,” she says.
Hardin Woods made a list of would-be recipients, and on the first day of her retirement flew to California to stay with her brother.
This is oddly relevant today. I think we live in a simulation and it broke.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/22/a-new-start-after-60-i-baked-a-pie-every-day-for-a-year-and-it-changed-my-life
From the post:
>>When Vickie Hardin Woods retired, she knew she needed a plan. “I was worried about losing my carefully crafted identity as a professional. I was looking for something to carry me through that time … What else can I be?”
She decided to do – rather than be – something new. Hardin Woods would bake a pie every day for a year, using fresh ingredients local to her home in Salem, Oregon – and she would give each pie away.
“I knew it would make me reach out every day to somebody, so I wouldn’t be isolated in my house. And it gave me a routine,” she says. Hardin Woods was 61. The year before, she had been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment. “I was trying to show myself that I could still think and be creative,” she says.
Hardin Woods made a list of would-be recipients, and on the first day of her retirement flew to California to stay with her brother.