Your Tuesday will be a good one
Oh, hi friends!
In my office, I sit with my back against a bookshelf full from edge to edge.
But I face my computer (of course), and when I want a distraction, I find myself hovering at the search bar, trying to remember where to go. A news website? Twitter? My Facebook “Buy Nothing” group? Email?
There used to be blogs to visit, I think, and websites with pleasing homepages. But I can’t remember what they are, and maybe they’re no longer interesting to me or perhaps their domain names have expired and they no longer exist at all.
And I find it funny, and sad, that with the entire Internet right here, there is nowhere to go.
Two choices then.
Write something instead.
Or twirl my chair, pick up a book, touch paper, and read.
“When that music came on, man, it was like the floodgates were opened,” the aerobics pioneer Debbie Rosas told me. “All that pent-up power and desire to express oneself and be heard and be seen.”
My friend Danielle Friedman hit the New York Times this weekend with her excellent piece: Aerobics Promised Women ‘Wellness.’ What Went Wrong — and it’s a must read. (The news peg is the Apple TV+ series Physical starring Rose Byrne, which I am loving. Give me your complicated, ambitious protagonists, please!! A bit like Fleabag, but darker, and set in the ‘80s.)
This story is a preview, too, of Danielle’s upcoming book, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World. I’ve been lucky enough to get a sneak peek over the last year and it’s shifted how I think about movement, power, sweating, women’s path to fitness, and the connection to our emotional well-being. Pre-order over here!
Loki Loves Poetry
Here is audio of Tom Hiddleston reading the poem “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver. Oh my. Thanks to Caroline Linton for sending my way. And here is the full poem if you need two minutes to relax your brain.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara