June: Recommendations To Start Your Month
10 Useful and/or interesting things.
Friends,
If you’re a British or an Irish citizen then it’s entirely possible you’re as just as excited as I am about the UK General Election coming up on the 4th July. 🥳 Check your details and register to vote here. Brave women fought and died for my right to vote as a woman, a fact I am always grateful for with every vote I cast.
That said, here’s 10 Useful and/or interesting things that found me this past month.
I popped over to Paris a few weeks ago and used this handy guide to try new restaurants and bars I hadn’t before. Given that I love a good sole meunière, I can wholeheartedly agree with Alison’s recommendation in here - I will be thinking about that sole for the rest of my life.
I’ll also be heading back to Cape Town this December so have been listening to the sound of my favourite South African bird to get in the mood.
What if we placed friendship at the centre of our world? A topic I’ve been exploring as I create and nurture the most beautiful seaside community where I now live in Hove. Also related (and in line with my lifelong anti-marriage stance), this podcast episode with Ezra Klein and Rhaina Cohen on why traditional Christian marriage arrangements may not be all that (told you!).
It’s a hard no to marriage for me unless this is what the proposal looks like. (Also, will seriously consider for purely selfish EU passport reasons).
A poem that found me and also broke my heart a little —
There is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier by Matthew Rohrer
There is absolutely nothing lonelier
than the little Mars rover
never shutting down, digging up
rocks, so far away from Bond street
in a light rain. I wonder
if he makes little beeps? If so
he is lonelier still. He fires a laser
into the dust. He coughs. A shiny
thing in the sand turns out to be his.
Watched this new Italian movie with a special friend last night - La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher. A tender, funny story about a group of ‘tombaroli’ or grave robbers involved in an international network of stolen Etruscan artefacts during the 1980’s. (remember those wads of Italian Lira cash everyone carried!!?) Isabella Rossellini plays a supporting role in the movie but she was definitely the star for me - it’s been a while since I hung out with Italians in Italy and I forgot just how dramatic and hilarious they can be.
What happened next - a famous author took time out of his busy touring schedule to visit students in the Bronx who had some thoughts on his latest novel. (still crying)
A mantra for the month — ‘i am safe in my own hands’.
A timely reminder from the team at Self Space who are making waves in the UK therapy world and should absolutely be on everyone’s radar.
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