Hi friends! Before I get into this week’s essay, I want to share these links with ways to support Ukraine:
Last weekend Nicole and I did a lot of soul care or as I like to say, we did a lot of things that filled our cups rather than emptied them. Friday we took the day off and went to the San Francisco Botanical Gardens to marvel at the magnolias in bloom. We went to the Lamy store and got Nicole her first fountain pen. We ate Japanese curry and went to the library so Nicole could get her own San Francisco library card instead of sharing mine. We went to Valencia St. and poked around in shops that we would never buy anything at but they’re fun to look at.
Saturday we went to the Oakland Museum for the final weekend of Mothership: Voyage into Afrofuturism. It was beautiful and inspiring and after walking through the exhibit twice I was overwhelmed to the point of where I had to leave before bursting into tears because my cup was overflowing. They commissioned a curated playlist for the exhibit which is about 14 hours of music and you can hear it here. This playlist carried us through the rest of the weekend.