Friday Five: April 15, 2022
Good morning angels! We’re back at it again with another Friday Five, your weekly roundup of joyful, hilarious, cathartic content. Before I share five new things to make you smile, I’m excited to share an interview I did with my maman for Great Jones! We were thrilled to chat with Aisha at Great Jones (and work with the incredible Farrah on photos) all about the cookbook we’re working on, and how our popular TikTok account helped us get there. There are a lot of delightful quotes in there from maman but this one might be my favorite: “I stock up on saffron. I’m a generous person, so if anyone comes to me and says they don’t have saffron … I have a kilo for you.”
Game: I’ve played Wordle, Nerdle (math), Quordle (Wordle x4), and now I’m onto Heardle, where you’re meant to guess a song within a set number of seconds. I love nothing more than a musical guessing game, so this is music to my ears in every possible sense. You can share your performance just like Wordle, so send me your results!
#Heardle #47
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Lifestyle Choice: Please click through the below instagram carousel documenting an incredible Italian man in Florence with his four white fluffy dogs in tow. I want everything he has: the dogs, the bike, a beautiful life in Italy, a perfectly weathered brown coat, and the confidence + swag required to tote around four dogs like this. Watch this and ascend:
Poem: Continuing our celebration of Poetry Month with Mark Strand’s “Keeping Things Whole.” This poem is beautiful and deeply relatable, something you can read over and over again and still feel impacted by it.
In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I part the air and always the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been. We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.
Perspective Shift: This quote from Prentis Hemphill is something to savor. They shared this in their podcast, Finding Our Way, and I don’t think I’ve really considered the opposite of fear as ‘embodiment’ before (confidence, maybe). I’m going to linger on embodiment this season and try to genuinely long for what I want rather than be fearful or anxious over it.
Joyful Internet Content:
Asking my mom for a kilo of saffron,
Roya