a pretty good night from a few weeks ago

🥲

houston highlights

• That redheaded toddler climbing straight into my lap on the plane and watching the luggage being unloaded
• Salad for one from sweet green (lol)
• Watching TONY with the family (good/not good) (theoretically good) 
• Sweet smiling loving baby June
• Walking to that brewery to meet braxton and dancing with June to that when in Rome song (“the promise”)
• Walking Johnny
• Falling asleep so quickly and deeply on Friday night
• Going to Target for Linda (so easy)
• Going to Kroger for Linda (but forgetting ice cream)
• Andrew and Catherine eating ice cream both nights
• Reading that old Marisa Silver story and that new George Saunders story from The New Yorker 
• Linda keeping the sweatpants

a bit of flair

halloween-decorated lions in houston — approve

or whatever

the most amazing flyer created at the library today (by an 80-something-year-old)

a clear horizon

this was a good interview, too, with roz chast:

sometimes it’s the little things

my passport expired a year ago and ever since it’s been eating at me to renew it and so one night ross took my photo, i was fine with it, and i submitted my app, it took maybe 20 minutes, and now i have my passport! it’s nothing, but it gives me great relief (and pride??????) (extremely low bar these days).

we’re all fools

rewatching beetlejuice, beetlejuice (amazing sets and costumes, tbh!) and catching up on emails and newsletters. this was a good interview with lisa hanawalt:

bits

• this is a very cute costume (by alex mill staffer rose florence anderson, courtesy of cupofjo)
• was watching tv halloween shows to “get in the mood” and then switched over to silence of the lambs and holy hell that movie is so good and so scary, i had forgotten, and jodie foster and anthony hopkins 100% deserved those academy awards. absolutely chilling.
• i think i’m finally coming around to pizza?????
• back on my bullshit and watching playoff sports AND the NBA and trying to decide if i’m getting league pass again (can i make it work without spending the $$$)
• seeing niece and nephew (and other little friends) play soccer
• this exceptional list about handling grief — especially this:
  Grief is a transformative event in that there will always feel like a “before this happened” and an “after this happened” it may take time to feel okay with that but I tried to look at it as entering deeper into the depths of the human experience as we all do face it eventually as dreaded as it is. Part of this journey may include coming face to face with your own mortality for the first real sobering non purely conceptual time barring life events that have also done that.
• i think the thing that is hitting me with — especially lou’s death — is just the person is GONE. just no longer, like…POOF. it’s been making think about the leftovers, which i didn’t love (who cares), but that sudden unexplained goneness is hard to grasp.

🤝

the countless moments of being alive

from interview with a sober person: