Listening:
"This Strange Effect" by The Kinks
"Shark Smile" by Big Thief
"No Matter Where We Go" by Whitney
Reading:
Always Modern Love: How to Stop Breaking Up
Nayyirah Waheed's poems: "Perhaps the most famous poet on Instagram"
Craving:
I'll call it "food to fuel."
I've been so busy this last week. I'll be working, moving, grooving, sweating and suddenly I NEED TO EAT SOMETHING and it will be any number of things. Iced coffee, cold grapes, pizza, fresh fish, toast with jam, a Rice Krispies treat...
I wonder how many gallons of ice cream I've consumed in my life?
I'm not usually partial to pepperoni, but this is picturesque.
Wearing:
Jean shorts, gym shorts, short skirts, dresses that could be T-shirts.
This. (image via pinterest)
Watching:
"The Incredible Jessica James." A most recent Netflix original movie starring one of the dope queens, Jessica Williams. It was one of the movies I needed in a trying moment and it made me feel significantly better.
"The Incredible Jessica James is a little odd duck of a film, an old-fashioned romantic comedy that’s decidedly modern in its frame of reference, a character-driven piece that never lets us too deep into its protagonist, a movie as pleasant as it is fleeting."—Vulture
Wanting:
I want to be on my favorite island. The pang of nostalgia hits me hard in the height of the summer.
I want to smell the salt in the air and the slight stink of skunk. I want to taste my grandma's oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and a scoop of ice cream from Ben and Bill's. I want to feel the soft grass between my toes and the warm spot at the tip of the jetty. I want to hear the honk of the ferry and the old song lingering from the carousel. I want to see those greying shingles and the setting sun turn everything that spectacular shade of green.
This spot, this view is burned into my brain.
I could plop right down in it.
Nearly a decade ago—can you spot the ghost photographer?