31. You Can Buy Arms For Your Chicken
Frieeeeeeeeeeeeeends,
We’re so close to the end of this awful, beautiful, heart-wrenching, divine, tumultuous, shapeshifting but magnificent year.
So, so, so very close.
Can you feel it?
Also, it’s Sunday! Time for some of this.
1. Forgotten Laundry
One of the downsides of running a laundry shop is sometimes people drop off their clothes to be cleaned and they never come back to pick them up or, crucially, to pay the bill for services already rendered. About a month ago, Reef Chang came up with the idea of styling his octogenarian grandparents in some of the forgotten clothes from their Taiwan laundry shop and posted the results to Instagram.
The internet, starving for positivity in the midst of global turmoil, responded energetically to the upstart modeling careers of Chang Wan-ji and Hsu Sho-er.
2. Reading
If you know me you’ll know that I recommend books to friends pretty much weekly, often with a tiny hint of melodrama and a declaration of ‘THIS BOOK CHANGED MY LIFE.’
It’s true.
Pretty much every book I’ve read has changed my life in some shape or form.
This one is no exception.
It’s the first book I’ve ever written in (*clutches pearls*) and I’m underlining passages and scribbling notes ALL OVER IT. I’m going to hazard a guess before I finish it that it’s in the top 10 of my favourite books ever read. Plus it’s already changed my life :-)
3. How To Disagree Productively
Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can't agree -- on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground -- over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations.
4. I Came For The Captions
Helen Walne is an award-winning columnist and writer. Born in England, she has lived in South Africa, Argentina and Scotland. She has spent the last 15 years working as a columnist, writing for most of South Africa’s national newspapers and various magazines, as well as international publications.
Helen is also an accomplished underwater photographer, spending most of her free time underwater in False bay, Cape Town.
Her instagram account and accompanying photo captions are HILARIOUS.
Every night the Everly sisters would climb the hill on their kimchi farm and call to the stars to keep the world safe, but maybe let one or two ex-husbands fall prey to a light touch of the plague.
So Facebook said you could use old yoghurt, a mix of marmite and nail polish, and three tablespoons of bleach to achieve a pleasing dipped-ends look. ‘Just like the salon!’ they said. Sarah wasn’t convinced.
When Deon took to the stage in his silver-trimmed satin dress, his tiara at a jaunty angle and his lips slicked in Frosted Apricot as he belted out Carly Simon songs, he finally felt he was home.
Where Mindy went, Mandy went. Even into restaurant bathrooms, where they would giggle and fix holes in their stockings with nail polish, use the hand-dryer to get even bigger hair, and write rude notes in lipstick on the mirror about all the men in the place.
5. For The Love of Plants
See you next Sunday.