"Have baseball and opera merged into one melodic sport?"
A Hundred Years from Now - David Shumate | Pomegranate molasses | can't smell
Poem
A Hundred Years from Now - David Shumate
I'm sorry I won't be around a hundred years from now. I'd like to see how it all turns out. What language most of you are speaking. What country is swaggering across the globe. I'm curious to know if your medicines cure what ails us now. And how intelligent your children are as they parachute down through the womb. Have you invented new vegetables? Have you trained spiders to do your bidding? Have baseball and opera merged into one melodic sport? A hundred years....My grandfather lived almost that long. The doctor who came to the farmhouse to deliver him arrived in a horse-drawn carriage. Do you still have horses?
Beverage
Pomegranate molasses
This newsletter has always had a loose relationship with the exact concept of a beverage, but this one is a bit of a reach, even for me. I have been using pomegranate molasses with a generous hand for many years, though, including in a plain seltzer now and again. Or drizzled on almost anything. Or to make stuffed onions, which I have been thinking about this week. Or what I had for dinner: ricotta cheese with chopped up olives and lemon and chili crisp with a big swoosh of pomegranate molasses on top and then the fig and olive crackers from Trader Joe's. I keep mine in a squeeze bottle in the pantry because I have worked in too many restaurants to not decant things from hard-to-use bottles into easy-to-use ones. I would squeeze it directly into my mouth.
I was going to recommend elderberry syrup this week as a classic sick person recommendation, but this was a step or so away. Just for context on how we got to this borderline recommendation.
Scent
we have to skip this part
The last two Sundays I was driving to and from Madison and other parts of Wisconsin. The first of those, I was driving away from Madison after my dad's birthday celebration. The second, I was driving back to Madison to help with my sister's baby for a couple days. Basically, this is why I forgot to do the newsletter. I remembered to do it today late in the evening in a packing-up-my-apartment fugue state. I didn't entirely realize it was Sunday in a conscious way. And I know it is now Monday because a friend came to check out the couches I am trying to get rid of and hung around for a lot longer than I anticipated. It's fine!! Sunday is a concept!
In between those other Sundays, I had a really shitty cold contracted from one of my nieces, who coughed directly into my mouth more than once while we locked and unlocked little doors on a Melissa and Doug toy. I am still not all the way better, and I am sitting here coughing a disgusting cough while I write this. So I have not been wearing my little perfume samples because my smelling is not amenable to that experience. We'll get back to it.
Now playing via Spotify "daylist"
But to be honest, I have been exclusively listening to the new Waxahatchee album. Like exclusively.
Other things
I am so bad at moving!
I am so good at making to do lists, and I am so bad at actually doing the macro tasks that make moving possible instead of 900 very small tasks that do not really need to happen. And no, I do not know where I am moving, don't ask, it's all going into a storage unit, I'm crossing my fingers that something just works out.
Carts online (and in person!)
After touching every item of clothing I own multiple times, I did make some purchases over the last few weeks, many of which will be familiar to readers.
I bought two pairs of the shoes previously linked! Camper Casa Myri woven flat and Madewell Greta flat, red!
I tried on this little dress at Madewell, and the fit was great in multiple sizes EXCEPT for button gapping, even when I sized up. This is a consistent problem with Madewell fits. They have the curvy fit to accommodate in skirts and pants but not with tops. I did not end up using the half-birthday month coupon, which feels like I avoided some marketing traps.
I did make some purchases at both Aritzia and the Gap.
Aritzia:
1. Thesis pants in navy - dressy fabric, relaxed cut and fit. will wear to fly with a Gap Big Shirt (my favorite)
2. Abbey dress - wore to work in the office with my leather jacket and patent Mary Jane heels and it was just such a good luck, everyone respects me more now
3. This perfect denim shirt - not chambray but midweight denim, it's a perfect spring layer, I love it so much, the price is outrageous, I don't care
Gap was 50% off, and I ordered a chambray Big Shirt, a green stripe Big Shirt, a red shirt dress (I promised I would do a pink and red summer!), and a couple sport bras. No regrets! I wear a Big Shirt most days at this point. So comfortable, so versatile, so presentable. So boring!!
I also am in the market for a "normal pair of jeans." Not skinny, not kick flare, not anything too much of whatever, just a normal straight leg jean. I have in the past had good luck with the aforementioned Madewell curvy fit — tried on all the pairs, all failed! Tried on all the jeans at Levi — not quite! If you want a good laugh, I will text you the dressing room photo of the ribcage wide legs. I do not have particularly short legs, but I look like a little baby. The journey continues. I am very into trying on clothes in person instead of shopping online right now.