

It's been a long week, so I took a bath with this packet of German bath salts that I bought in Berlin several years ago. I imagined at the time that I would fight the jetlag with a nice hot bath back at my hotel room and then remembered, upon returning, that my room didn't have a bathtub. The water was moody and tinged like a stormy sky. Like the sky in Potsdam the next day, in fact.