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- MAY 2024 -
Inspiration, Eating, Listening, Watching,
Reading, Working & Making
Hey there!  Welcome to Spring?  At least I hope it's spring where you're at.  It almost is here. I'm getting real tired of taking the new plants I impulse bought in and out of the house every night to protect them. Hurry UP non-freezing temps! And snow on Beltane is real dumb.
 
But I'm sloooooowly shaking off the deep funk of winter. Feeling ever so slightly more positive about life.  Part of that is marking 1 year since leaving Florida, part of that was my birthday.  
 
The rest is just ennui - I've been feeling very Gen X about life in general. First, hi, hello, yes, we exist!  And like, everything is truly awful - but it sort of always has been? And we've managed to survive? But also we're real GD tired. And feeling rather nostalgic. 
 
Part of that for me is moving back home after almost 30 years away.  I told my sister it's like a butterfly reaching it's final 90s era form. So if you need me, I'll be wearing my chunkiest shoes (if it's not a platform I! don't! want! it!), listening to a whole mess of iconic albums turning multiple decades old, and feeling a little bit surprised when I come across some…
small moments of joy
  • MY!! ROSE!! BLOOMED!!
  • I truly enjoy watching the robins be ridiculous. Because I am an old person now.
  • Getting to spend a day in town with my Sister; no men, no children, just us
  • Pizza as a genre peaked with this version
  • Rusty from Today in Tabs signing off with "Okay love you bye see you tomorrow"
  • I could spend hours watching a house being re-thatched.
  • What if pop-up but life sized?
  • These gleefully unhinged gutter downspouts.
  • This truly wonderful series of essays by Scott Hines about being The Greatest.
  • I'm am so looking forward to Summer.
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