Saturday, March 14, 2020

"is anyone else as happy as i am?" (74/365d)

puk's birthday today! we found her on skype and sang to her... twice. once before, and once during cake - we got to see her blow out the candles :)

Thank goodness it's normal

we bought a LOT of potatoes
or as one can also write it
potoooooooo
I was so very worried that the farmer's market would be weird or cancelled, but it was up and running and refreshingly normal! Thank goodness for that. I bought 25 little tiny lettuce and cauliflower plants which we planted on this very cool cloudy ideal-planting day. Nobody wanted to help. They wanted to "play soccer" which was really "fight about the ball and the rules" .... after I helped with their fight by taking the ball away they were suddenly interested in the planting. It was delightful to dig in the earth again.

Then, completely neurotically, I cleaned the floor on my hands and knees, remembering again, that my grandmother probably did that every single day. with lye.

each one of the three played music with me individually: each so musical and we had so much fun

we had a movie night with pauli, nina, kris and centa ..... kris' flight for tomorrow was cancelled, and he was a bit bummed out about that. the line-up of films was

"wallace and grommit"
"pink panther/noah's ark" 
(kids go to bed)
"saddest music in the world"* (aka "weirdest movie in the world" - i nearly turned it off after 5 minutes because i was woried about my audience/guests being shell shocked.
"ducks" by isabella rosellini

In a tense, dialogue-heavy scene of the movie, Pauli suddenly announces that he thinks he could maybe name a (very theoretical) baby irma... then, as the scene progressed, and the name of one of the characters was mentioned he said narcissa was also a nice name...

*We chose this because of a letter to the editor found in the Economist
"Love will tear us apart
The Graphic detail on why people listen to sad songs in February brought to mind “The Saddest Music in the World”. Directed by Guy Maddin, known for his homages to Russian and German Expressionist films, it stars Isabella Rossellini as a brewery heiress with plexiglass prosthetic legs (filled with beer, of course). She holds a contest to find which country has the saddest music, parodying the Olympics. Great fun.
K. CARLSON
Belmont, Massachusetts"

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