this was a good week

a leather-wrapped blue journal with pencil case, origami butterflies, a lit candle and caddis readers

It’s back. For those of you who’ve followed Chookooloonks for some time, you know that for many years, Fridays were reserved for posts where I shared good things from around the internet. Confession: for the most part, I shared those as much for me as anyone else — it times when things are challenging (hello, COVID), it helps to have a good reminder that there are still joyful, beautiful, wondrous things happening around the world. But life got busy, I got distracted …

… anyway, time to bring it back, I say.

And so, my friends, this was a good week! Here’s why:

• I’ve fallen in love with my journal again. Also, origami butterflies. So much fun.

• Elegant stylist, indeed. This woman’s sense of style and exuberance for colour blows my mind.

• Speaking of style, this tribute to the late icon André Leon Talley is the best I’ve seen.

• Archeologists unearthed a Roman glass bowl from 2000 years ago in perfect condition. HOW. IS. THIS. POSSIBLE?

• Vasily Lukin won the coldest marathon ever, running 42 kilometers in three hours and twenty minutes, it was -53°C when he ran it, and I don’t even understand the words I’ve just typed.

• So let’s warm up: my sweet friend Steve shared his dad’s Trinidadian curry shrimp recipe, and it looks delicious. (It’s very similar to my recipe, except I usually use sweet potatoes instead of regular potatoes, and add a can of coconut milk. But same-same).

• We finally have jetpacks, and we do not care.

• And finally, for this week’s soundtrack, one of my favourite songs that stays playing in my home office: Sunrise by Ruti. Click the image below to watch and listen:

Have a great weekend, friends.