Time to party!

I hosted a rager last night - the first in many years. I've decided that now that I'm 60 I'm going to throw more parties. And generally get out and about for drinks and dinner and coffe and all the other ways we spend time together.

Seems particularly important right now when the world appears to be rolling right off its axis.

On New Year's Eve 1999 my friends and I had a huge party - babies and toddlers in a makeshift nursery upstairs, tweens dancing to Christina Aguilera in the basement and the adults toasting the new millennium all night long.

Right now I've got that same feeling of free fall into the unknown, but with a lot less hope in the air.

Since I'm trying to combine realism and activism with joy and levity, I'm charing some of the links I've been collecting over the past year. And then a few faves from the past. People are cool! They make excellent stuff. I salute them all.

This was my favorite video from the lockdown months, when so many people were putting so many terrific things online to make us all feel better.

Need some high-end consumer goods, but don't want to support luxury bros and their ilk? Try shopping lost luggage!

I love a creative iconoclast. After watching this video I wish I could start all over and live more like this! Maybe it's not too late. 😄

Brilliant, exciting, and soothing, all at once. Who comes up with these ideas? I want to hang out with them.

I'm forever gobsmacked at what science teaches us about... everything. This map of the history of human movement around the world is based on the Human Genome Project. My mind is truly blown. How are humans so smart?

Okay, that's what I've got for you today, because prepping for and hosting a bash take it right out of you! Hope you are feeling at least a tiny bit hopeful and that you can take a moment out today to feel the wonder that is life. ❤️

Ok, love you, bye!

Julia

Lady Gaga has the right idea.