What I've been reading & listening to, May edition
A podcast about tomatoes, a book about memory, and a very sad playlist
I was listening to the May playlist yesterday in a nod-off to a month that I won’t soon forget but wish to, and I realized: this playlist is very, very sad. I don’t even know what most of the songs are about—I add them at random times throughout the month, when I hear them in a movie or on another random Spotify playlist. Usually, I add them because I feel something within the first few chords, and so I think, maybe someone else will feel something too.
Listening to all of the songs again, I understand now that a deep sadness permeated the last few weeks and obviously so with everything going on in the world and also closer at home. I feel sad. We feel sad. Three simple words that feel so pointless and don’t really convey the true weight or gravity of, well, anything.
But then I remember this: there are slivers of light and hope that force their way through the cracks, as they always do. Like my niece’s first trip to Disneyland in early May. I watched my father hold her in the line fo…
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