Lifestyle
On living slowly and deliberately.

Ronald Ventura Mounts a Collateral Show at the 61st Venice Art Biennale
At the 61st Venice Art Biennale, Ronald Ventura’s “LUNA” collapses the distance between two tidal cities — Venice and his native Malabon. Notes from the opening, and a friendship that goes back to 4 a.m. in the ’90s.

In Praise of the Slow Morning
On coffee made by hand, the small discipline of not reaching for the phone, and why the first hour sets the whole day.

The Case for One Good Knife
Why a single well-made blade beats a drawer full of gadgets — and what owning less in the kitchen taught me everywhere else.

What a Year of Saying No Taught Me
A small experiment in declining things — and the surprising amount of life that turned up in the space left behind.