Summer's coming in, which is pretty great. I love the summer (old news and a lukewarm take).
I've found myself fulfilled over the last eight-ten weeks. I have seen one of my closest friends get married, I've finished multiple sewing projects (I'm wearing a Snout Street shirt right now, a little linen number), and I've re-started French lessons (online).
There have been some harder moments. The economy around Venture Capital is slow at the moment, and I work at a start-up. There have been some very difficult moments and conversations recently, which haven't been fun. I don't know enough to know if it's a fair comparison, but I didn't have to work through 2008's crisis, so this is the first one which I am a part of. From what I can see - it's not just me or where I am working.
I took a minute away from reading and movies - throughout the winter-spring I was watching and reading a lot, and I'm honestly not sure what has filled that time. I expect it's planning a wedding and a holiday, and spending time outside. Ah, spending time outside.
In the past few weeks I've found myself coming back to the practice/habit of reading. I've started Janina Ramirez's Femina, and blasted through RF Kuang's Babel and Angeline Jackson's Funny Gyal (the latter two of which are book club books - thanks book club!)
I've also been looking at natural dyeing (dye and die being fun homophones). I bought myself a little starter kit and a few metres of linen (linen being much more expensive than you'd think) - and I'm excited to dye some garments, and probably some bunting too. There's a lot of fun crafts out there.
So I guess to check on the vibes: the vibes are mixed. It's been stressful and scary, but the sun's out and life is still good. I'm not sure I can call life bad if I get to eat fresh cucumber satay noodles in the garden on just, like, a Tuesday evening.
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