we want you to take that shot

this article about steph curry, “Why one simple word defines Steph Curry’s leadership with the Warriors,” is so inspiring:

Quinn Cook, Warriors guard: Game 7 of the Western Conference finals against the (Houston) Rockets. 2018. I had missed a big shot in Game 5 and had sent Steph, Kevin (Durant), Klay (Thompson) and Draymond (Green) a message after the game in the middle of the night like: “My bad.” All those guys were like: “Don’t worry about it. We want you to take that shot.” We won Game 6 and Game 7, and me and Steph were walking back from the trophy presentation on the court to the locker room and I was crying. I know it was just going to the finals; usually you cry when you win the finals. But I’d been through a lot to get to that point. He put his arm around me and was like: “Man, it’s good to see that guys really care.”

🥹

Jim Fox, Davidson assistant coach: He wants to be the best player in the world but also wants to be the best teammate in the world.

the best teammate in the world — that’s almost enough (see this award)

ps

andor remains ~the best~ — the world making, the ethics, the cruelty of war, what happens when you continue to lose everything.

I’ve always thought this

from jessica defino’s great newsletter — bolding my own:

Another theory: after a decade of algorithm-approved flawlessness, the beauty standard has gone flawsome, a term coined by Tyra Banks on America’s Next Top Model. Banks encouraged up-and-coming models to see a physical “flaw” – a large forehead, wide-set eyes or, yes, gapped teeth – as an asset, something to set them apart in a sea of homogeneously beautiful women. Crucially, this quirk could only function as beauty capital if the model embodied the beauty standard in every other way: thin, young, smooth and taut, with otherwise symmetrical and/or desirable features.

I always thought about it in regard to pj harvey — her thinness allowed her so much latitude in terms of her looks.

pope francis

something about this photo is so moving — just seeing pope francis as a real person who rode the subway (or bus?)

MORE perfect things

• my no 6 shirt and vans
• rewatching muppets take manhattan, which we had on VHS and watched so often with my brother and sisters (this scene) (dabney coleman)
• cappuccinos, as previously mentioned
• three-day weekends
• two play-in basketball games on tonight
• bakeries
• ross planting a meadow
• veggie sandwiches
• my new mini trampoline
• BEST FRIENDS FOREVER AS MENTIONED

perfect things

• cappuccinos
• dogs on beds
• mint
• best friends
• “healthy” gel pedicures with best friends

Patricia Iglesias Peco

i paint a design

raise a glass to michael hurley. :(

#1 fave

~HUMIDITY~

In other news, I’m at the annual library conference and feeling both inspired and somewhat deflated. Inspired by all these caring people; defeated by all the work there is to do, there’s no end to it! But I know I gotta focus on the lil bits and additions that I can handle. But it can make a person feel like falling asleep! (forever)

legit