Bonus: August Favorites
Engagement photos, crying at a concert, and my mom's peach cobbler recipe
Hello to you and hello to September!
I’m thrilled to share an admittedly eclectic list of faves from this past month, starting with this engagement photo my mom took of Gideon and me a few weeks ago (she even came out of retirement as a professional photographer for this photoshoot— now that’s true love):
READS:
“How Sudan Archives Became the Violin’s Domme” by Doreen St. Félix for The New Yorker. Realized while reading this profile that Sudan Archives is self-taught on the violin, an instrument that feels like an extension of her being when she preforms live. My favorite of her songs linked here as a treat!
“Do we live in hell?” by Haley Nahman for her newsletter Maybe Baby. Made me take a hard look at how often my cynicism and anxiety override my outlook on the world. I forgot how nice it is to allow myself to feel hopeful.
My dear friend Michelle Icard’s third book, Eight Setbacks That Can Make a Child a Success: What to Do and What to Say to Turn "Failures" into Character-Building Moments. I read it two sittings and learned so much — applicable to parents and people parenting their inner-children alike :)
This all-too-relatable quote from a recent edition of Anne Helen Petersen’s newsletter Culture Study, all about screen time: “The thing personal devices can do is hold all this stuff for us, all our worries and obsessions and all the information and all the best and the worst takes on any issue. They make it all accessible, so that we can search and read at the pace of our flitting, distractible minds. I can’t do that with a novel. I can’t even do it with an encyclopedic book. But if I’ve got my phone, I have everything I need to never go to sleep again!”
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