How I’m spending money
Oh, hi friends!
I was talking to a friend the other day about spending money on things that make you happy.
Things like baseball tickets. Theater. Concert tickets. Short trips. Long trips. Memorable meals.
And we agreed it’s always worth it. Even when you don’t think you can, or should—most of the time, the experience is worth the trade-off. You feel happier, you move through life happier, and you won’t miss it.
“Don’t lament so much about how you career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don’t know what it is yet.”
Cheryl Strayed never fails. From her book of quotes, Brave Enough. (h/t Abby Haglage)
Go See Something Great
I love catching up with friends while we’re doing something—walking, seeing a show, going on a bakery crawl. You learn something together and construct this neat little memory you can recall ears later.
So when my friend Aegean suggested we see the Peter Hujar exhibit at the Morgan Library (our other friend Surafel recommended it!), I thought, how perfect! And I’ve never been to the Morgan because when you live in New York it’s easy to pretend you’ve seen everything without ever opening your eyes, but anyway…we went on Friday, and his photographs were haunting and beautiful…
…and then we came across the Tennessee Williams exhibition. Now, words are always going to affect me more than images, and seeing his typewriter and four alternate endings for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and scratched out rough drafts and admission that his greatest works were pieced together from short stories and monologues and random character pieces, well, IT SURE WAS AMAZING.
Why doesn’t every museum have exhibitions devoted to playwrights?
I’m going to go again. I liked it that much. The Williams show closes May 13, Hujar closes May 20.
Go see something great—wherever you are.
Also, the above photo is of Pierpont Morgan’s library. Because that was also great.
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Love, Kara