What you desire, respire, explain and TBD

[sovay]

Because time has gone so weird that I have not acclimated to the month yet, I opened the package that arrived this afternoon from yhlee and it was a birthday gift of shells: heart cockle and abalone, sundial and spindle shells, scallop, limpet, cat's eye, silver conch, lynx and money and purple-top cowries and more. He said he would have sent me the sea if he could, but he thought it might be hard to fit into our apartment. It's almost certainly true. We don't even have room for all our books.

In response to my prompt in the Comfort Fest, sholio wrote me a beautiful coda for a scene in the fourth season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17), between the characters of Abigail and Edmund Hewlett: "Acts of Kindness." I basically consider it canonical. I need to figure out how to write about TV shows without generating monographs.

spatch is calling this my New York Dolls phase.

Comments

[sovay]

I’m just not used to having a child who, via Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters’ Club, groks adults going out. I don’t think their parents have been to a club racier or thumpier than the Birchmere (where one partakes of folk music and cider and gets fleeced on parking) since they were ~four.

Pop culture is an amazing vector of knowledge. One I mostly bypassed, personally, but I respect the line of transmission.

Tangentially, they mostly like people who identify as girls but anything besides watching Disney+ or MAYBE like making cookies or smoothies = a dumb waste of time. Thank God.

That is nice to know and I am so glad your ten-year-old is not trying to date during a pandemic.

[selkie]

A) They are in scary reach of 11 WTAF
B) BUT THEY KNOW ABOUT IT THAT IS TERRIBLE