Weekly Digest #89

Hi!

The past two weeks have been mad, full of ups and downs. The result of the elections made me super happy, of course, but the scenes that followed made me question the sanity of many people around me. 
I honestly intended to write a long, deep text telling you how I feel about everything we went through as a nation during these past 4 years, with high hopes for the future and a poetic quote to close it all. But, honestly, the best I can do at the moment is quote a song: it’s all too much. 
So I’ve been, basically, trying to cope and stay sane, which, right now, means listening to Taylor Swift’s new album on repeat and journaling a lot.
Things are flowing well lately and I have a familiar feeling that everything will be just fine for me. At the same time, I’m aware of the many things that need to be solved before the year is over and I don’t want to waste time.
And then, I remember a John Lennon quote and the fact that the vacations are coming. All I want is to waste my time and write some poetry.

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Besides listening to Midnights on repeat, this week I discovered a new love: Novo Amor.

According to his website, Ali Lacey, a Welsh multi-instrumentalist, began Novo Amor as a project of sorts – an act of defiance in the wake of a break-up, but along the way, quite unexpectedly, he found something rich and rewarding. Years ago, a summer spent by an evergreen-surrounded lake in upstate New York supplied both the impetus and imagery that he would use to craft his debut album Birthplace.

His songs make me think of a mixture between Death Cab for Cutie and Bon Iver - which, in my opinion, can only be good. Read more about him in this article from Atwood Magazine.

You can listen to his music here.

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The Red Hand Files, by Nick Cave

“I want to facilitate, in some small way, a mutual journey toward meaning; to decrease the dimensions of our emptiness and draw us closer to love and to beauty. I understand that these sound like grandiose claims, but they are not. This common project – to improve matters – is available to all of us, at every moment, and in a multitude of ways, and exists in the smallest kindness, the most rudimentary act of tolerance, or in the simplest generosity.” - Read here. 

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Take care!