The Weather is a living e-mail thread between artists Tyler Hoffart and Hanna Waters. Are you lost? Catch up here: Part 1: Introducing the Weather, Part 2: March 24
Hanna Waters <hannamwaters@gmail.com>
Mon, Feb 26, 9:20 PM
to Tyler
I hope I get lots of your dad. It has been a blessing to bear witness to all of the ways you celebrate and live his memory through your work. I'll take it.
I love that photo and the pic of the snowy owl in the photo and your snowy owl angel of a dad. I imagine you feel him a lot as you live your day-to-day, and I hope it can be a balm on your heart when he passes through.
I've been keeping this list of things I love lately, those lovely perks of existing in a body and being alive. Here's where I've gotten so far, and I would be interested to know yours. You see, it's hard to catch them in the moment and remember to write them down - I don't even like to take photos for that reason. But when I remember...
When someone smells amazing - like clean, or a nice fragrance, or shampoo - and you discover it in the air they just vacated. It's like getting to know them in a very specific and intimate way even though you are strangers.
When someone listens to and loves a song you recommend or a playlist you built. This is also a kind of intimacy, of taste and disposition and provenance. Sharing music is among my most beloved activities.
Getting into a sun-warm car when it is cold outside. Once I was getting into a car with a friend in Italy and he said che bel caldo - a beautiful heat - and everything sounds better in Italian anyway but it stayed with me since.
Witnessing something beautiful with someone else, like a buck bedded down a few yards away or an eclipse or a delicious sunny bluebird day. The same goes for witnessing funny things (especially if you and the person need little but eye contact to communicate) and witnessing scary or crazy things - like ghosts. I've never seen a ghost myself, but my friends and I spent a lot of time looking for Bigfoot, the chupacabra (wrong area in hindsight), and other creatures in middle school.
When a song that you have a love affair with comes on shuffle (or the radio) and it reanimates your spirit and whisks you away to all of the moments in your life that have been punctuated by its sound.
Do ya wanna add to the list?
I also have a list of things I don't like. But I figured I'd lead with the good stuff.
-HW
Hanna Waters <hannamwaters@gmail.com>
Mon, Feb 26, 9:21 PM
to Tyler
What should we call our feature?
The Weather?
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