A list of beautiful things #21

slow down where it hurts

Illustration from The Gardeners by Oyow, 2022

• Mesmerizing!

• This is what my wedding cake would look like if I got married in the Italian countryside.

• If you liked My Octopus Teacher, you should watch All That Breathes — it’s a moving tribute to human kindness and our kinship to animals.

• A wonderfully delicate alternative to the memento mori, which is usually expressed with a skull.

• Turn the volume up to 11 on your best sound system and listen to this ethereal song from the Austrian band Molly.

• “Slow down where it hurts.”

• Loved, loved, loved the emotional arc of Episode 2 of Beef, which ended on Steven Yeun playing a stunning acoustic version of Incubus’ “Drive.” It was the scene that drove me to binge the rest of the episodes.

• This exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum looks so freaking cool.

• The last two lines of this poem destroyed me.

• J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan holds a very poignant truth about adults.

• Take 14 minutes out of your life and watch this Oscar-nominated animated short. I cried twice (the kind of crying where tears involuntarily stream down your face) and the ending floored me.

• May you never run out of ink.

And some little things from me:

• How to look at art.

• How to eat rice like a Filipino.

• It recently dawned on me that “I love you” can mean different things.

• Things I know now as a 37 year old.

• I gave birth to a healthy baby boy in February. His name is Gustavo, and he is a gift.