Elsewhere for a few days
Tuesday morning greeted me with eight meetings on my calendar and this message: "Are you aware of the buffoonery that happened over the weekend while you traveled or did you shut down the outside stuff that was happening temporarily?"
It was my birthday, so we decided to exist elsewhere for a few days. We disconnected, slept in, ate good food, and sauntered around.
A few things I saw:
"It's super cool to be really kind."
Walked by Make Art or Die Trying. It caught my eye, so now I'm reading it. I'm seeing a theme in the art that I'm consuming: resistance.
"Olive you." Something for my E.
"You rock." Something for the sister, whose favorite scene in Everything Everywhere All at Once is the rocks.
"Seven dollar drink enjoyer." This is me.
"Hot drinks, warm hearts." Also me.
This review of Earthlings: "I first found this book in a free little library & the more I read the more I realized why someone would've left it there. Not for the faint of heart. Shit goes down. Reviewed by: Chant." I am intrigued.
A gacha book gift-wrapped in hot pink, by an Asian author, and described as dystopian + a critique on capitalism. How can I not? It turned out to be Severance by Ling Ma. I look forward to reading it.
I returned home to (feeling deeply ashamed of my country and) a package — an unexpected gift from an unexpected friend. He sent three bags of grain: amaranth, sorghum, and corn. At first, I was confused, but he said, "They all pop! The amaranth pop is very small." He remembered that I love popcorn. What a lovely birthday gift.