Hello beautiful consumers! Welcome back to the Friday Five, your weekly roundup of comfort, joy, and relief.
Song: This is the sort of song that gets you smiling from the second you recognize it. Wayne Wonder’s one hit wonder, “No Letting Go,” is a bop that feels like summer sunshine on your skin. Easy, breezy, beautiful music to start your weekend with.
Poem: Sheenagh Pugh’s “Sometimes” is just what I needed to read this week. Living with anxiety, my mind is constantly in a state of thinking or feeling that things will go wrong. But sometimes, maybe more often than not, they don’t. Sharing this helpful reminder with you, and a question to ask yourself: “What if it all went right?”
Recipe: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat is such a phenomenal cookbook! The perfect gift to yourself or someone who wants to spend some time cooking. One recipe I love and turn to every summer is the slow roasted salmon with herb salsa — here’s one online adaptation of the recipe, I always turn to the one in the book though. It’s simple and effortlessly delicious. Cooking the fish on a steady low heat transforms it into something melty, flaky, and delicate with flavor bursting through. For my veg consumers, the herb salsa is worth trying and endlessly modifiable!
Art: “Faraglioni, Capri” by Austrian painter Gottfried Arnegger is a painting I want to live inside. Most of his work is dreamy, colorful, and bright depictions of gorgeous European vistas that will make you swoon. If you need some escapism (who doesn’t), I’d highly recommend scrolling through his artwork and thinking of transporting yourself to the sunny sea in Italy, circa 1905.
Joyful Internet Content:
Be still my teenage heart, Incubus lead singer Brandon Boyd is on TikTok making a beautiful, earthy cup of tea. May all of our non-problematic 90s heartthrobs be living blissfully like Brandon.
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This looks like every sponsored ad I see while trying to watch YouTube videos of animals:
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Have any of you ever heard of enfleurage? It’s the only method to get the precise scent of certain flowers, and it is painstakingly beautiful and delicate, just like the flowers themselves. Watch the process below – they will usually refresh their chassis with fresh flowers about 20-25 times to capture a potent scent. Beautiful!
Be the change,
Roya