When you keep putting it off
Oh, hi friends!
Delaying won’t make the decision any easier.
Considering, weighing, understanding — those help.
But you know when you’re delaying. You feel it.
Act instead.
“Like the rest of us, I’m drawn to stories about animals in part because I think they can help us make moral and emotional sense of the world we share. I can’t imagine having endured the loneliness of these lockdowns without my daily visits from the crows. It’s a relief when they arrive each morning; the fact that they’ve survived another night suggests that I have, too.”
Love love love this new piece by my friend Ben Crair in The New Yorker about the strangeness of our animal bonds — front the crows who visit him daily in Berlin to My Octopus Teacher and the new book Featherhood.
Going Back to the Source
You know when you’re reading an article and it references an older show or movie or book as inspiration for an entire genre or cultural movement and this happens so many times you begin to believe you have actually seen the older show or movie or book because you’ve read about it so much, it’s so firmly there in your brain, but the truth is you’ve never actually experienced it firsthand, only the idea of what you think it is based on regurgitated one-sentence descriptions?
Hi, Prime Suspect! I’d never seen this show, which ran from 1991-2006 (Brit shows are wild, my friends), starring always-and-forever queen Helen Mirren. There aren’t as many episodes as you’d think; each one is 90-100 minutes so it feels more like a limited series/film. We’ve got serial killers and sexism in the workplace and young Ralph Fiennes in a small role and superb writing. So! It feels nice to have relevant context now when reading the line “modeled after the iconic character Jane Tennison” or whatever. Now I know who she is in all her ambitious and troubled glory. You can, too. Prime Suspect is on Hulu (and BritBox)!
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Love, Kara