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Seven thin(g/k)s I explored this week
Dear reader,
Hello, and Happy Weekend! I have been nesting, and the urge has expanded to the kitchen where I’ve been organizing like a maniac. I’m at the final stretch of pregnancy, and am starting to get nervous and scared of birth, in addition to already knowing I will miss the feeling of being pregnant. It has been such a sacred journey for me, one where time stood still and I reveled in the magic of my own cocooning and cultivating and creating—my greatest creative act yet.
And lots of exploration.
Here are seven links to bits of the world I explored this week, shared with the hope that you will find them to be an inspiring springboard for deeper thinking.
The recently-won lifestyle habit of purchasing a fresh loaf of sourdough bread on a weekly basis from Tartine, and being treated—again on a weekly basis—to a neighborhood coffee shop, stroll, and chocolate bar purchase from a local artisanal shop called The Chocolate Dispensary in Echo Park. (What I’m eyeing for this weekend.) I feel wiser for making this a regular thing. The rhythmic nature feels grounding and stabilizing.
Good narrative writing + films — made me super nostalgic for 80s-early 2000s Hollywood movies.
My dear friend Sean shared a podcast interview rec with me earlier this week, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I must have rewinded about ten times to catch the audible joy that is the writer John O’Donohue chatting about our inner landscapes and his invitation to extend our imaginations on a daily basis.
Socialized ownership — I’ll just place this here.
Love this 2x2 matrix from Strangest Loop on worry and results.
On getting dressed — not entirely timely for me, since the last thing I want to do right now is think about what to wear whilst 9 months pregnant, and having purged my entire closet and wished good riddance to 3/4 of my clothes.
Now that I hired someone from Taskrabbit to mount the living room TV, the gadget swivels around in nifty and nerdy ways, and I feel like an adult, you know, having had my TV graduate from a floor/stand to the heights of abode walls. It’s also made it easier to swap from listening to podcasts/audiobooks while cooking to now watching documentaries/shows. On the list for this weekend is this documentary on Hans Zimmer.
Ever lovingly,
Ani
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Such a great list, as always! Love those little treats for yourself, and I say, chocolate 🍫 is generally always a good idea haha. Also thanks for sharing that piece about Marxism, intellectual discussions are always appreciated and I find this part particularly illuminating: “if workers understood that they made the shoe together, they’d understand that together they are powerful, and could unite and begin planning how to distribute the booty they earned together democratically. In absence of this consciousness, however, the social arrangement defaults to what it was in its primitive origins: work is organized by capitalists, who minimize the compensation of all workers, and for their organizing efforts get to hoover up all the rest. They are then free to reinvest it, or frivolously dip into it, as they privately — individually, unaccountably, undemocratically — see fit.”