- This week I stumbled upon Yeonmi Park’s Youtube
channel and I binged half of
her channel, watched a few interviews with her and got her book from the
library. I only knew the basics about the North Korean regime, but learning
more about that has opened up my eyes to other things as well that go beyond
the politics of one country and can apply to a myriad of things both personal
and political.
- I have started playing the ukulele with regularity. At the moment I have to
keep it to 10 mins a day because my finger tips really hurt - I have no
previous experience with string instruments.
- I’m continuing to journal daily, and have found a list of daily
questions
and daily writing
prompts to get the
ball rolling.
- We have started watching Ramon Gener’s This is
Opera and we have also watched Orson Welles’
The Lady from Shanghai
(1947), which I
didn’t like, and Lulu Wang’s comedy The
Farewell about a
Chinese family dealing with the elderly grandmother’s diagnosis of cancer,
which I enjoyed very much.
- I finished reading The Vanishing
Half
by Brit Bennett, which tells the story of two fair-skinned black twins in the
60s and how one of them abandons the other in order to live her life passing
as a white woman. I found the premise of the book very interesting and would
recommend it.