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1. This week, sharing this pretty Gucci bag.
I like sharing beautiful bags! I find that Gucci often has items that I like but then there’ll be one random detail I don’t get at all (aka I’m too old). This reminds me of those classic Gucci designs – love the color, the horsebit, and the adjustable strap (much needed). Very nice.
2. A thoughtful piece, via Refinery 29, about what it’s like being single in this current age.
3. An interesting article via the NY Times about how it’s now “bare” season – I don’t really agree with everything…it’s also just hot! And I remember going to school in Berkeley a zillion years ago…it seemed as if people always showed lots of skin.
4. An incredibly beautifully written piece, via The Boston Globe, from one of its long time journalists, who just discovered he only has months to live. Prepare yourself to be stunned by its language, cry, and to want it send it to everyone.
5. This week I read Strange Weather in Tokyo, by Hiromi Kawakami.
This is a lovely, slightly odd book, which is how I would describe a lot of Japanese literature that I read. It’s a love story, but a slow one, and between a student and her much older former teacher (so you wonder if this would ever be published in the current age in the US). If you like translated Japanese literature, I highly recommend Strange Weather in Tokyo – reminded me a bit of certain Murakami, and Convenience Store Woman.
8 Comments
Anonymous
July 30, 2021 at 12:13 pmThe Boston Globe piece was so touching .Thank you for sharing
Kat
July 30, 2021 at 2:36 pmI’m so glad it touched you!
Anonymous
July 30, 2021 at 12:36 pmI had a near death experience two years ago at age 31 with a young kid and a loving husband. Lying in the emergency room bed, a tearful husband on the side, I was overwhelmed by grief but also couldn’t help but thinking life must go on for them – that he will go on with work for their financial security and that she will go back to school among her friends to be happy. Afterwards, knowing I’d live, I thought about how to best live this life. I still don’t know but believe more and more in “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the number of moments that take your breath away”. We try to slow down a bit and live more deliberately to increase the moments that we’d remember – when we are present and have a good laugh, when we are touched by a good movie, when we are amazed by the view after climbing a beautiful mountain, falling in the water when paddle boarding etc. etc. We shouldn’t live in the fear of death but an real sense that we will die one day should teach us a thing or two about living.
Kat
July 30, 2021 at 2:37 pmThank you so much for sharing your experience….your last line was incredibly wise.
Sharon
July 30, 2021 at 1:38 pmThe piece in the Boston Globe was just breathtaking. What a writer he is! It got me in my gut!
And…I love that Gucci bag!
Kat
July 30, 2021 at 2:37 pmHe is an incredible writer!
B
August 1, 2021 at 1:56 pmmy mom died right before the start of the pandemic. this article made me remember how my mom reevaluated her life toward the end – she was consumed by the thought she was being punished for something. the gentlest person and most innocent, there was nothing in her life that deserved the end that is cancer.
i also used to be a reporter at the globe, and grew up with it as my hometown paper. I don’t remember Jack Thomas. Doesn’t matter, his words are beautiful. thank you for sharing.
Kat
August 2, 2021 at 9:48 ammy friend, I am so sorry to hear about your loss. And I had no idea you worked at the Globe. Thinking of you.