Everything I loved in June

Monthly recommendations to listen/read/see/eat/see/buy/do/be

Hi and Happy July!

My new thing is to stop mentioning the speed of time, e.g. “I can’t believe it’s already July!”

I should probably be able to believe it’s already July.

I was talking to a friend who just completed grad school and she hears from a lot of people, “It feels like you just started!” to which she thinks, Hm, nope, it definitely feels like it’s been two years for me.

Then she told me about a mother in her life who feels that same way about the growth of her child, while everyone around her seems baffled by the fact that a kid gets older as time goes on.

C.S. Lewis said that it’s obvious humans don’t belong in time because we are constantly talking about it:

We are so little reconciled to time that we are even astonished at it. 'How he's grown!' we exclaim, 'How time flies!' as though the universal form of our experience were again and again a novelty. It is as strange as if a fish were repeatedly surprised at the very wetness of water. And that would be strange indeed: unless of course the fish were destined to become, one day, a land animal.

While time will continue to baffle no matter how present we are, I’m trying to change the way I talk about it. We’ll see how long that lasts.

For now, here is a list of everything I loved listening to, reading, seeing, eating, buying, doing, and being over the past month: