How has it been another week? Is time even real? Here’s what I do know — what made me happy this week.
I started reading The Time In Between by Maria Dueñas and I can! not! put! it! down! This is the book that inspired my favorite foreign period piece miniseries of all time, El Tiempo Entre Consturas. Please, Netflix, I’m BEGGING YOU, bring it back!!! It’s been a few years since I’ve seen it, so I’ve forgotten a lot of the details. But as Célion Dion says, “It’s all coming back to me now.” Gah! I love it so much!!
Late to the game on this one, but I stumbled across The Open Ears Project, hosted by the lovely Clemency Burton-Hill who also hosts another podcast I like called Classical Fix. The most recent bonus episode from December is Tom Hiddleston on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. What’s not to love?
Every Saturday, Nina Cosford gives tours of old sketchbooks on her Instagram stories. I live for these behind the scenes golden nuggets! I’m seeing more and more the value in actively keeping sketchbooks. Hers are so impressive, so all over the place, and yet so uniquely and obviously her. It’s astounding.
The inexhaustibly charming Emma Block also wrote a great Instagram post on the importance of sketchbooks. We are all about sketchbooks right now!
French Is Easy. It’s delightful when your friends know just what to send you to make you laugh.
Finally, a blast from the past. At the end of my run this morning, “Your Song” from Moulin Rouge came on, and I proceeded to keep it on repeat for 20 minutes. Twenty. Minutes. This still makes me squeal like the first day I heard it — literally a lovesick teenager. And I love you, Ewan McGregor.
Ok byyyyyyyyye! And happy Mother’s Day!
xoxo,
Sally