Today I worked a nearly 16-hour day. It was satisfyingly productive, but god only knows what I ate all day, running between a conference, my office, and meetings...

I do know what I ate when I got home, however: this glorious, refreshing, jewel-toned pomegranate. Sent from generous friends in California, it was the perfect way to spend the one moment I had to myself. Eating a pomegranate is something more than sustenance alone, almost a meditation: the juice running everywhere completely precludes multitasking, and navigating the convoluted internal landscape of the fruit is just about as close as I ever get to zen.