—I THINK THEY MEANT IT, WHEN THEY SAID, YOU CAN’T BUY LOVE

 

 

…Hey, how’s your Wednesday? Foggy? Fabulous? Spell-bounding?

I hope it’s a bit of all of those.

I’m rooting for you.

Always.

 

…On Saturday, I watched the NYTW Gala Celebrating the 25^th Anniversary of Rent; Rent being my second favorite musical ever. I had chills and got in a couple of good sobs, plus I stood and gave three separate standing ovations to the screen during the performance.

 

…Believe it or not, there’s recently been a lot to be hopeful about, with regard to COVID and the pandemic. Really, there has. No, seriously. I’m not kidding.

It seems an ungodly long time coming, right? But I think we’re finally starting to turn the corner.

What’s also amazing to note, is that it was exactly a year ago, yesterday, when the CDC first used the word “Pandemic,” and on March 9, 2020 only 28 (TWENTY-EIGHT) Americans had died from the virus at that point.

That was only a year ago. One year…What does a year even feel like anymore? You tell me.

This article is sobering, but yet again, it’s something that makes me hopeful in light of where we are now, in light of what each of us have been through this last    y    e    a     r    :

https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-most-unusual-day-how-march-11-2020-marked-the-start-of-the-covid-era-100028842.html

 

…Here are some other things I’ve recently heard, or read, or saw, that I like mid-week, and that I thought you might appreciate as well…

 

…“I just didn’t want my sailboat parked in the driveway when I died.” Swankie, Nomadland

 

…“Life’s too short to keep secrets.” Bailey K.

 

…“I’ve returned, so vividly, at times, to that little girl I think maybe I once was.”—Kim Chinquee, Snowdog (An amazing story collection.)

 

…“What are secret but things we want to forget?” Cherie Jones, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

 

…"I never liked myself: a love story." 

…"There is a large part of me that wants to see me dead."

 –Melissa Broder, So Sad Today (My favorite essay collection, ever.)

 

…“I can’t escape the ways I love you, and you know what? I don’t want to.” Billie Eilish, The World’s a Little Blurry

 

…“Psychopath’s are very attractive people.” Rosamund Pike, I Care A Lot

 

…I love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWdjDwYuejI

 

…"There are two types of people in this world: those who do what they say they're going to do, and everyone else." -Anthony Bourdain

 

…“Move, and the way will open.” Zen Proverb 

 

…Aside from the fact that she’s totally adorable here, there’s a lot of universal wisdom in this, and I love how her eyes dance as she thinks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViLvkSEVUZo

 

…"If you get—give. If you learn—teach." Maya Angelou

 

…"I don't think I have a great gift. It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve. It's mostly a lot of nerve, and a lot of very, very hard work." –Georgia O'Keeffe

 

…“In love there are two things: bodies and words.” Joyce Carol Oates

 

“Remember, you alone get to choose what matters and what doesn’t. The meaning of everything in your life has precisely the meaning you give it.” –Marc and Angel Chernoff, Hack Life