Happy Friday, from sub-zero degrees Boston! I'm celebrating this as the last weekend in February that I'll spend shivering. We're off to sunnier climates in a few days. In the meantime, here are a few things that have been keeping me warm this week:
- Compiling a "Warm Up" playlist filled with upbeat groovy jams to keep you toasty.
- Loving this ScienceTake on the mechanisms of popcorn by The New York Times, which depicts what goes on in our kitchen about three times a week. Our preferred topping is a melted butter, maple syrup and pink sea salt combo. Stovetop popcorn addicts unite!
- Doing a little research on the best natural sunscreens for our trip down south, thanks to EWG's comprehensive guide.
- And finally, a beautiful and humbling quote from the Oliver Sacks essay regarding his diagnosis of terminal cancer, released this week:
“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.””