Friday Five: February 10, 2023
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Hi lovely consumers. I’m juggling many things right now and don’t feel like I’m doing any of them particularly well. The more I talk about this, the more I realize so many others are also going through it! I don’t have any solutions but I have cathartic relief and joy in this newsletter, so let’s go with that.
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Organization to Support: It’s devastating to see the impact of the Turkey-Syria earthquake, with the death toll surpassing 20,000 people. I can’t stop thinking about the Syrian baby girl born under the rubble, with her umbilical cord still attached. She was named Aya, which means “a sign from God” in Arabic. Her parents and siblings were killed in the earthquake, and her Great Uncle will take care of her when she’s out of medical care. If you’re looking for an organization to support, AKUT is a volunteer-led search and rescue organization whose teams have been working tirelessly since the first hour of the earthquake.
Poem: “Tired” by Langston Hughes is a poem that I constantly come back to. I pick a different part to sit with after each read. This week, it’s “Let us take a knife / And cut the world in two - - -.” I’m imagining taking a paring knife to an orange, exposing the juicy, shiny flesh and pithy, bitter vein. We deserve a better world.
Album: Lil Yachty just released a psychedelic rock album, and it is delightful. He produced it alongside artists from Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Chairlift, and MGMT, among others. These songs feel like rays of warm sunshine in this weird, weary winter.
TV Show: I just started Shrinking on Apple TV+, created by Bill Lawrence, Brett Goldstein, and Jason Segel. The show centers around three psychologists, and I don’t want to give away much more than that. Jason Segel, Jessica Williams, and Michael Urie are absolutely phenomenal in it, and those are just my favorites in an all-star cast. The show is funny, smart, weird, and exactly the right mix of those things to fill my empty cup right now.
Joyful Internet Content:
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Dancing to the BBC World News tune before it alerts me to the next global tragedy,
Roya