Kindness is the only way we’re going to get through this
It’s cool to stay home (“It’s like pouring your money into a savings account. You’ll grow marginally; you’ll stay safe; your expectations will be met and never exceeded. Whereas heading out to a party or an art opening is more of a gamble. Maybe you’ll have an amazing night you’ll always remember, but more likely you’ll just stand around awkwardly and blow $60 on cocktails.”)
Tiny love stories
On Twitter, the actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt asked people to “show me the happiest photo you have in your phone... the one picture that will always make you feel good. No matter what.” You can see the 1000+ photos submitted here. The whole thing is utter joy.
Famous women really are just like us: mad as hell
Carly Simon’s piece in the New Yorker about going to the movies with Jackie Kennedy is unexpectedly moving (“Every time a shot sounded on the screen—and the film was plenty violent—she reacted physically, dramatically, her body mimicking the victim’s. All I wanted to do was protect her, put my arms around her.”)
This list of 101 ways to live more sustainably has us re-thinking habits and assumptions
The truth about giving birth after 40
We read a lot of articles this week about the record-breaking 19-hour Qantas flight from New York to Sydney but this piece from New York Times writer Sarah Lyall was by far the most entertaining (“Basically, I had been taking decongestants since mid-afternoon. I felt like a junkie in a gritty TV show about Times Square in the 1970s, nervous and sweaty and incoherent even as I was beset by an achy, leaden inertia. Soon the lights would go down, part of the airline’s next planned group activity (sleeping) and I would make perhaps the gravest pharmaceutical error of my adult life. But that was still in the future.”)
One of the best Humans of New York posts this year (read here, here and here – will someone get this woman her own late night talk show already??)
This pigeon made a nest out of poppies and we’re not crying you’re crying
The best pot of chickpeas
Now, here’s a question for the ages: Are micro break-ups better than ghosting? (“Healing from a micro-breakup doesn’t follow a typical breakup script, either. It’s hard to mourn a relationship, for instance, that never was. You don’t have a plethora of pictures to look back on, or places that remind you of them. You can’t tell your friends what you miss about someone you hardly knew, or call in sick because you didn’t get a fourth date. And yet, perhaps you really did like the person. Perhaps you’ve been dating around for years and this was the first person you’ve been excited about in a while.”)
This is mesmerising: A supercut of movie scenes set in New York City
