more bow fetishizing

i have no memory of where i found this but check out that beautiful big bow 🤤

but time is a trip actually

i’ve lived a lot and feel good about it (mostly) (or at least feel good about where i’ve landed?) (or rather good, and lucky) but then if i really think about it all, i’m like, oh my GOD, time is fucked up, how can it be 25 years since i lived in san francisco (the first time)? or how can it be FIFTY YEARS since [whatever]? how can i have known all these people — and also lost touch with so many of them? and remembering sometimes when i was brave and sometimes when i wasn’t and when i was cool and when i was not. times infinity. it’s a lot to hold.

unrelated, i saw this little bit about harriet the spy, which was a formative book for me (i once carried a cooler, full of detective tools, around the neighborhood in my quest to be like harriet). i had forgotten that she ate tomato sandwiches and cake (every day!). she really was my spirit guide.

gloria steinem was a vegetarian!!!!!

best news of the month (i’m trying to round up all the famous vegetarians to make a case for vegetarianism for all!)

p good poem

another year

birthday came and went, i’m 52 now!!! celebrated by taking the day off, eating pizza and salad, eating cake for breakfast (ordered off goldbelly in a panic but no regrets, would do again), and watching my “canon movie i’ve never seen” — paper moon (v good) and bonus second: the french connection (not my fave? but you could see why it was a big deal). birthday movies thus far:

• paris, texas
• chungking express
• hoosiers
• mad max
• the conversation
• paper moon

i’m v pleased about this list and this tradition and my other unspoken tradition: TAKING THE DAY OFF. watching movies, eating cake, not working — some define this as heaven (me do). anyhow nothing revelatory to report — feel lucky for all that i have, days can still be tough, headaches plague me, but overall it’s all p lucky, both zoomed in and zoomed out. now watching moonstruck — a perfect movie, as i’ve mentioned (besides the 25 seconds of lifetime movie montage where cher is drinking wine in front of a fire) — which made me wonder which oscars moonstruck won (best actress/cher, best supporting actress/olympia dukakis, and best original screenplay/john patrick shanley) (all extremely deserved). led me to watching cher’s oscar speech and she’s awesome and meryl streep is also so awesome.

on the flight to houston

on the flight home

it only has one volume: 11

from the new york times “The Bagpiper’s Endless Quest for a Place to Practice”:

good reminder

https://www.tumblr.com/lauraolin/822443544753111040/nervebynerve-the-daily-routine-of-most-adults

my interior vibe (ideally)