Friends,
Here’s 10 Useful and/or interesting things that found me this past month.
If we’re friends irl, no doubt you’re sick of how much I’ve been going on (and on) about Wim Wenders’ new film Perfect Days. Wim talks about his life-long love of Japan and the inspiration behind the movie in this wonderful interview with The Progressive Magazine.
“I’ll give you this much: He was a businessman and he was rich and he was unhappy and he was drinking a lot and his life was going down the drain. One morning he wakes up in this crummy hotel room, doesn’t even know how he got there, doesn’t even know if he had sex or whatever happened. He thinks his life is shit, and he doesn’t like it. He actually plays with the idea of ending it.
Then, miraculously, early in the morning, there’s this ray of sunlight appearing on this wall in front of him. And it falls through the little tree in front of the window. There is this play of leaves and sunlight and shadows moving, and he looks at it and stares at it and he starts crying, because he’s never seen anything so beautiful. He probably has seen it, but he hasn’t noticed. Then he realizes that’s the answer to his existential crisis, to become somebody who notices that.”
The person I’ve become since I left social media.
Speaking of, “I guess I'm just a news junkie!"
Why you should try a brain dump before bed.
Things that don’t work. (number 12 is a flashback to my childhood)
Need to move to a new country after the suspish death of your (v v elderly) husband and a sudden windfall? I found the perfect place to ‘grieve’. Pack light ladies! Just your passport and one of these.
Speaking of — on grief.
brb, moving to Italy to open a teeny weeny bookshop.
Related — Letizia Battaglia (RIP) is now on the list of people I’d love to invite to a dinner party (dead or alive). Imagine the stories she’d have!
The last line of this poem by Nikki Giovanni: [🧹]
in case you missed it: