For the past 20 years, we’ve been attending the Women’s Prison Book Project fundraising breakfast on Valentine’s Day weekend. And donating books while enjoying pancakes. This year things moved online with a brunch & learn event. It wasn’t the same, of course, but there were some great speakers and that same feeling of community. Donate money or books, if you can. And watch this short documentary, No Way Out: COVID-19 behind bars in Texas. And read this: Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind.
Many years ago, my divorce was finalized on Valentine’s Day. Most of the time I forget about that. I do find it funny my ex-husband went on to marry a lovely woman whose birthday happens to be on Valentine’s Day. At this point, they’ve been together much longer than we ever were. And I am glad to call them both friends.
Five good things:
- When it’s safe to travel, I’d like to take my son to multiple Meow Wolf locations. “Pulse is comprised of countless white line drawings that are meticulously intertwined and superimposed on 60 glass panels. When illuminated, they mimic scores of nautilus spirals, coral, vines, and botanics that sway and throb in glowing masses.” Full video with Claudia Bueno at Meow Wolf Las Vegas
- Speaking of travel, I watched the first episode of Men in Kilts today and it made me want to go back to Scotland so badly.
- Actor Tony Shalhoub is Lebanese like I am. His family left Lebanon due to famine just before the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The Finding Your Roots episode about his family was heartbreaking and fascinating. I reached out to some of my relatives but the ones who know our family history refuse to share the information. It’s sad but I’m not surprised.
- In better news, NASCAR’s first Arab American female driver to make her debut at Daytona International Speedway. Which made me think of the Palestinian Speed Sisters documentary that I enjoyed a few years back.
- For my fellow Star Trek fans. Seeing the handiwork of these talented professions is just delightful! Star Trek: Discovery — A Full Wardrobe Walk Through
As usual, I am single on this strange holiday. But that’s for the best in a pandemic during an extended polar vortex. Last night I had a hankering to rewatch Killing Eve. And found myself listening to the playlist this morning from the band Unloved. Apt. I was treated to my kind of valentine from The Allusionist podcast. Tonight I’ll watch the latest episode of American Gods (this season has been better than the last) and the pilot episode of The Luminaries.
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