2.4.2021
The 33 Project
It’s Thursday! I just parked my car on an actual mound of snow possibly six, maybe seven, feet away from a curb. Oh well! I’m back from a wonderful week Upstate in the blizzard-y abyss where I was able to ice skate, cross country ski, and sled.
I’m exhausted and sore but supremely content.
On to this week’s recs:
1/ With the Australian Open starting in just a few days on the 8th, I found this article from the Atlantic to be especially fun to read. Pretty incredible to consider the intense restrictions in place when even the mention of covid reaches Australia. They’re definitely doing it right. I particularly loved the various workout regimens of those in the more intensive lockdowns.
2/ I loved this profile of Carey Mulligan. Promising Young Woman is an excellent film and Mulligan’s interview here, while promoting it, feels like a valuable contribution. She’s thoughtful and seems pretty down-to-earth given her level of fame. I respect when a woman is blunt about the difficulties of working in a male-dominated system within the patriarchy of America. It’s commendable.
From the piece:
“The more we idealize women, she told me, the more we rob them of what actually makes them interesting.”
3/ Lastly this piece was a bummer. But an interesting read about the indirect consequences the pandemic has had on our bodies. I’ll share the closing graphs if you’re too disheartened, understandably, to dive in:
The consequences of the past year for our bodies are, as far as I can tell, limitless. In the richest nation in the world, an obscene—and rising—number of people cannot afford to feed themselves. People are cracking their teeth from mental and physical stress. Millions of people now spend little time in shoes, which is screwing up their feet.
It didn’t have to be like this. Those in power in the United States could have decided to take the pandemic seriously, and after a few months we could have returned to more normal versions of our lives, as people across the globe have done. Instead, we’ve been strapped into an interminable long-haul flight for months, with all of the stress and expense and discomfort that the worst of air travel implies—except we’ve gone nowhere.
OK, have a great rest of your week.