1.
There are too many posts in my drafts.
2.
Alysa Liu’s joyful Olympic figure skating performances have been the highlight of my week. Actually, the friendship and joy radiating from all the Olympic women’s figure skating competitors, but especially the US contingent, were welcome glimmers in the past few days.
It’s so wonderful to see somebody delighting in their craft, and performing at the highest levels of skill because of that. I believe it when Alysa says the medal doesn’t matter as much as getting the chance to do what she loves to do on the world’s biggest stage, because you can feel it the whole time she’s skating. She loves it, and she came back to the sport determined to love it on her own terms, and I’m so glad to have witnessed even just this small part of that extraordinary journey.
3.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance blew me away.
I was not at all familiar with Bad Bunny, his music, or his activism. Learning about all of that together, in a performance that focused on his heritage and the issues affecting both his community and so many other similarly marginalised ones, was such a pleasant surprise.
What really won me over was how effusively positive the whole thing was: as much a celebration of hope, love, and community as it is a fiercely loving protest pointing out how much better things could be.
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Apparently Bhutan’s capital city, Thimphu, is the only city in the world without any traffic lights.
Also, I may not be prepared for the extensive use of cheese in Bhutanese cuisine.
A question for next time: Do cheeses made from yak milk have the same lactose content as the ones made from cow milk?
5.
For a lot of things in life these days:
Whatever will be, will be.
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