where's the shakshuka

Oh look I'm swamped in homework but I'm writing on here instead! I love responsibility.

Here, once again, is another list-y post where I talk about random stuff I'm liking. It's mostly for future reference for me, but I thought I'd share anyway.

bell hooks and Laverne Cox had a discussion on race and feminism and the white supremist capitalist patriarchy (bell's favorite), and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Reading and listening to bell hooks (I'm working on "belonging: a culture of place" right now) always leaves me feel more aware of my white privilege and how that affects every. single. aspect. of. my. life., which is helping me to be informed on race dynamics and how to do my part in today's society. (I'm looking forward to this talk with Gloria Steinem (!!) and bell as well)

In middle school I had an Israeli friend and her mom would make the best shakshuka, and I've finally attempted at making it on my own with this recipe. I've eaten it as snacks, breakfasts, and dinners wayyy too many times over the past week.

I went on an adventure to the local art museum the other day and saw rooms and rooms of art from the Wyeth family, but my favorite piece of them all was this new piece (like, this year new) from Jamie Wyeth. It's a screen door connected to a painting of his, and I couldn't stop looking at it. 

 I watched a whole season of Friday Night Lights this past week, and then read the synopsis' for the rest of the seasons. I started watching after going to my schools first football game of the season with the most reassuring friend group and feeling excited as we won by a landslide.

Normally, I'm not the biggest fan of quotes, but there are a few that have really stuck out to me lately:

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“Tonight I love you in a way that you have not known in me: I am neither worn down by travels nor wrapped up in the desire for your presence. I am mastering my love for you and turning it inwards as a constituent element of myself. This happens much more often than I admit to you, but seldom when I’m writing to you. Try to understand me: I love you while paying attention to external things. At Toulouse I simply loved you. Tonight I love you on a spring evening. I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me and the things around me alter my love.” - Jean Paul Sartre in a letter to Simone de Beauvoir 

The bolded and underlined parts are all me - those are the sections that stuck with me. 

I remember how around a year ago I walked from my apartment all the way to the cemetery where Sartre and Beauvoir are buried. I remember getting lost along the way and asking the most content old women how to get there, and how she smiled when I told her about how I was interested in the architecture. When I walked through the gates,  I saw their tombstones right next to each other, covered in lipstick kisses, and for some reason it made my heart really heavy. 

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“To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.”- Chekhov
 

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This tweet: 

 

 

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“You shrunk and bottled in a glass jar, you’re a portable saint. Knowing you is like knowing Jesus. There are billions of us and only one of you so I don’t expect much from you personally. There are no answers to my life. But I’m touched by you and fulfilled just by believing.”  - Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

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And finally, my favorite, from The Favorite:

"i feel laughter in my heart... no wait that's just lasagna" Chloe aka @suburbandog on twitter

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I went to the diner at 1am yesterday with someone who made conversation easy and laughed at my stories, and everything was a blurry dreamy haze. She's one of those people that have helped to remind me what friendship is meant to feel like.

I'm falling in love with Girlpool and Simon & Garfunkel and King Krule and the Twin Peaks instrumental soundtrack all over again.

Hope you're having a good week!

AL