Happy Spring! The equinox is here and the days are longer. Here are five things that have made me happy lately.
1. After several weeks without one, I finally replaced my kettle.
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| Red kettle |
2. Libraries, always libraries.
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| Also this wonderful repurposing of a phone booth as a book drop. |
3. The equinox has come at last and the daffodils are blooming.
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| Daffodils everywhere! |
4. Breakfast and coffee at Hot Numbers Coffee Roasters. Highly recommended if you're visiting Cambridge!
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| Sweet potato and butternut squash hash |
5. These words about luck.
I am standing in line for the Hamilton lottery each evening. I of course would like to win it, but I’m secretly doing it because it’s about luck, and about open-eyed surrender to luck, which is the flipside of everything else about this past year: luck is the other side of the coin from forward momentum, from saying yes to everything, especially big risks.
You have to throw yourself into the future as hard as you can, but you also have to propitiate the gods, y’know?
~Arkady Martine, "2015/retrospective (on the theme of luck)." Arkady Martine. 29 December 2015. https://arkadymartine.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/2015retrospective-on-the-theme-of-luck/
