june round up
The end of June has come around really fast. A month packed full of tennis and sea swims and Glastonbury (on the telly) and Wimbledon (on the telly) and the realisation that life is a lot easier without so much booze in it. I have been testing all the soft seltzers this month and finding some truly delicious ones, alongside kombucha with dream-like packaging. Life seems to have filled up again and the end of term looms large on the horizon.
What I Read
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
A Line Above The Sky by Helen Mort
Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting The Soul by Deepak Chopra
Great Circle was one from the Women’s Prize For Fiction shortlist and I think it could have been edited about 20% but I enjoyed it regardless. I have a soft spot for historical fiction with a strong female protagonist.
MONTHLY FAVOURITES
Watched… Transparent. How did this one slip through without me finding it until now?! The first season was aired in 2014 and man is it brilliant. A large, messy Jewish family living in LA making mistakes and questioning their gender and purpose and relationships and identities. The best thing I have watched on TV in a long time.
Listened… Nick Mulvey on The Holistic Healing Project. Which lead me to Please Pass The Bliss, a song he re worked from a Ram Dass recording, which I keep playing my kids in the hopes that they will float to school and remain like zen dogs through their days. A quote from Nick below…
“Stage, gigs and playing live music encompasses all of what you find in life but intensified: relaxing, listening, being embodied, surrendered, engaged. What it takes to command your creativity, reach to that. Tell the context.”
Speaking of live music DID you see IDLES at Glastonbury? Joe Talbot is my hero.
Turned up for… Sharon Van Etten at Brixton Academy. A beautiful evening when it was 32 degrees in London, with tapas outside by Clapham Common and then a long walk down to Brixton. She didn’t play all the songs I was excited to hear live but her new one Mistakes is one of my current favourites and boy did she put on a show with that one (in her red velvet suit, she shimmied about shouting ‘I’m not hot, you’re hot’).
