A small gift for you — our loved ones!
Consider this a hug from us — a short list of things we love that might help you get through decision paralysis during your shelter in place.

Sending you love, wherever you are, in this wild time.

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to listen

to watch

  • YouTube:

  • Hulu:

    • High Fidelity (pleasurable, effortless, inconsequential viewing)

    • Dragon Ball (for a throw back)

    • Adventure Time (because if you haven’t, you must.)

  • Netflix:

    • The Last Dance

    • The Great British Baking Show

    • Night on Earth (and the behind the scenes! Thermal cameras!)

    • Ugly Delicious

    • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (because watching Samin Nosrat is comforting)

    • Magnolia (we’re currently on a P.T. Anderson kick!)

    • Mr. Sunshine (if you want a dramatic, awesome, crazy Korean soap opera)

    • annnnnddd if you don’t live in the US, of course all the Ghibli movies.

  • Kanopy (if you have a LAPL card, it’s free!)

    • Garry Winogrand - All Things Are Photographable 

    • Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

    • Bill Cunningham New York - A Portrait of the Beloved Fashion Photographer  Gerhard

    • Richter Painting - Portrait of a German Painter 

    • Le Chef - Comme un chef

    • What We Do In the Shadows

  • Amazon

    • The Night is Short Walk On Girl (the best, best animated movie we’ve seen in a long time.)


to read

  • All of Toni Morrison (fun fact! we have been making our way through her entire collection together — next up is Jazz)

  • Emilio’s Shortlist:

    • Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

    • Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmill

    • anything by Julio Cortazar

  • From Alice: Delicious fiction (no order, definitely not exhaustive. Reach out if you need a very specific recommendation ~)

    • Maps by Nurradin Farah

    • God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

    • The Power by Naomi Alderman

    • The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

    • Beneath the Lions Gaze by Maaza Mengiste

    • My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

    • Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

    • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

    • Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

    • Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

    • The Vegetarian by Han Kang

    • Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

    • Washington Black by Esi Edugyan

  • Memoirs & Essays

    • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee

    • The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander

    • Lost in Translation by Eva Hoffman

  • Poetry

    • Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith

    • A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

    • Rilke’s Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke

    • Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

  • Nonfiction

    • At the Existential Cafe by Sarah Bakewell

    • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollen

    • Emergent Strategy / Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

    • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

to do

  • Play Rummikub + Bananagrams

  • Make candles — very calming ~

  • Make beats

  • Paint + draw!

  • Make cartoons about the things in your house!

  • Yoga

  • Send Marco Polo’s or Houseparty ~ (to + with us!)

  • Breathe + meditate + know you’re super loved by us!

from our friends + family

 

keep the goodness going

A song, a poem, a video, a recipe, an app, a picture, a recommendation, a blessing, a whatever ~
Send it to us and we’ll throw it up here to share from our family + chosen family.

 
 

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drop us your address if some snail mail will excite you ~ we’d love to drop something tiny in the mail for you!