79. And If This World Runs Out Of Lovers 👨❤️👨
Welcome all new friends, it’s wonderful to have you here. 🥰
Friends,
It’s THE WEEKEND!
I’m up to my armpits in home renovations so you’re getting this week’s newsletter a little earlier this week. Enjoy!
Here’s a few more things you may find interesting and/or meaningful.
1. Tired of London, Tired of Life 🥱
A love letter to London. via my fave: Raven Smith
“Stranded on terra firma as my intrepid spirit dwindled, I found fresh affinity with my current surroundings. Though it was initially my captor and my prison, I fell in love with London again. Can you get Stockholm syndrome if you’re not in Stockholm? Despite nightly dreams of high seas, night trains and tropical beaches (everybody loves the beach, end of), my beloved home town, my grubby metropolis on the Thames, grew on me like a familiar fungus – the medicinal type that makes penicillin. It wasn’t an epiphany, nor a message from God with a choir of angels. It was a reminder. Sorry to sound like Dorothy in Oz, all red slippers and gingham, but there’s no place like London.”
2. Reading 🔖
This is my favourite book of 2021. The entire book has been underlined, highlighted and dog-eared. She will live on my bedside table henceforth.
“It is a blessing to know a free woman. Sometimes she will stop by and hold up a mirror for you. She will help you remember who you are.”
As someone who has never conformed or lived a life that ‘I should have’ bound by the constraints and expectations patriarchal society has placed on women, this paragraph feels like magic:
“The truth is it matters not at all what you think of my life — but it matters supremely what you think of your own. Judgement is just another cage we live in so we don’t have to feel, know, and imagine. Judgement is self-abandonment. You are not here to waste your time deciding whether my life is true and beautiful enough for you. You are here to decide if your life, relationships, and world are true and beautiful enough for you. And if they are not and you dare to admit they are not, you must decide if you have the guts, the right — perhaps even the duty — to burn to the ground that which is not true and beautiful enough and get started building what is.
What the world needs right now in order to evolve is too watch one woman at a time live her truest, most beautiful life without asking for permission or offering explanation.
I mean this with deep respect and love — and with the desire that you, too, will do what the fuck you want with your own singular precious life.”
3. Art Appreciation 🎨
Love absolutely everything Tschabalala Self creates.
4. A Poem
I Did Think, Let’s Go About This Slowly
by Mary Oliver
I did think, let’s go about this slowly.
This is important. This should take
some really deep thought. We should take
small thoughtful steps.
But, bless us, we didn’t.
5. A Love Like This ❤️
And if this world runs out of lovers
We'll still have each other
Nothing's gonna stop us.