The Mindful Baker

We have become deeply suspicious of anything that takes time. If a business has not taken off within a year, we assume the idea must be wrong. If a fitness plan has not transformed our body within six weeks, we lose interest. If a child is not reading, sleeping, speaking or behaving according to some imaginary timetable, we worry that something has gone awry. We plant a garden in spring and feel vaguely cheated when it does not resemble Chelsea Flower Show by June. We have be

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