- Foraged foliage from our 2020 fall hikes, continuing to teach us lessons in beauty.
- Met my first roommate from grad school after a decade. For a weekend, we were those young woman again, drinking whiskey, sharing stores to get to know each other and acknowledging the good/bad/ugly in our lives. Like a great first date.
- For the bookstore hauls I did. My idea of a rich decadent life has me being able to buy books I want to explore, without worrying about budgets and spending. And then stuffing them into the free library on our street to share with our neighbors.
- Farmers CSA box. Going to the farm on Sundays to pick it up, makes me very happy.
- Finally could sit outside a coffeeshop and people watch. It’s been a fantasy to do so, since the pandemic hit us.
- For the long nights I get to sit outside in the courtyard attached to our apartment building, when the full moon and good weather co-exist. Puppy on my side and an e- book in hand, is one of the many heavens I can imagine for myself.
- Naps. Exhaustion. More naps. Audiobooks as lullabies. (Currently. )
- To Dr. Ayana Johnson, for doing climate work in style. Any time I feel despair, I drop in on her page and recharge myself.
- Realizing more I look for delight, more delight there is to be found. I am building a delight muscle. Every corner is screaming ” take a moment to see me. ”
- Walks. Puppy slowing me down to sniff every thing in our path and to greet every human being we meet.
- Grateful for my partner. My father once asked me who I would be if I could be anyone. I told him “a dolphin swimming in the ocean”. He replied “then, I want to be your father dolphin swimming in the ocean too”. On some days, I feel this way about the people in my life.
Reading :
This old blog reinstated.
On beauty. ( “…adoration or appetite. Lust or love. Lust is about taking. Love is about giving”. )
Simplicity, a good perspective.
These workshops by TOAST.
Materialism :
This bra, the best I ever had.
Joya Mukerjee Logue’s paintings.
Arte Italica‘s blue and white pottery.
Yay for the old blog rescued! As I try to make sense of a different body and my inability to dress it after a year and 1/2 of scrubs and sweats, I’ll read the blue book for inspiration.
I remember when I started to read you. As I caught up to all the old posts, I would send so many of your “reading” links to family and friends. I look forward to doing it again with the new ones.
Thank you !!
Such a lovely read on Sunday morning, and timely too as I am thick in the middle of a cycle of wanting to acquire things, and have not spent enough time simply revelling in and tending to the life I have already built for myself. Thank you for continuing to write (and reinstating your blog).
My pleasure.
Thank you for introducing me to the work of Roger Scruton. Important ideas. On a more material note, I’ve been wearing the exact OB bra for years, and agree: it’s the best.
That bra makes the cut after the bra-free quarantine year. So good. Any other gems you would like to recommend ? ( I arrive at wisdom 3 years later on most things in life it seems. )
Always nice when a post of yours pops up!
If you have Amazon Prime, you might enjoy watching “Arctic Daughter”. An example of someone who gets environmentalism so right.
Queuing Arctic Daughter for this weekend. I am trying to introduce my husband to environmentalism and can use some good story telling.
Grateful for:
The old blog getting revived. Love the Little Blue Book!
Thank you for remembering the blog.