April Recommendations
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Buying tulips: I didn’t think I was a tulip fan. I like blue hydrangeas, sunflowers, assorted fun pink fluffy blossoms. But then it was spring in Germany, and it turns out tulips are EVERYWHERE. Also, the Instagram influencers keep buying tulips, and I am nothing if not influence-able. It turns out that I love the luxury of a big vase full of the same kind of flower, decorated with the tulips’ own greenery. They look gorgeous when they are less open and gorgeous when they open fully. I can get all-pink tulips! Or all-purple! Or, in one case, this stunning bouquet of multicolor streaky tulips that I posted to Instagram (influencing is a vicious cycle) and then I got to learn from a biology teacher friend that the mixed coloration is caused by a plant virus! Buy some tulips.
Visiting friends: I got to spend a week in Boston this month and it was lovely for so many reasons but especially because I got to spend that week staying in my friends’ guestroom! Being around people I already know well and adore is such a balm, and after living alone for this year, it makes me feel so cared for to wake up and be offered scrambled eggs that someone else is making (I know!!). I had shabbos meals with other friends! We gossiped! I got to chat with friends in the back of shul (not during the important parts, don’t worry)! The ease of being with familiar friends in a group was so lovely that I took advantage of the portable parts of my current work to spend a few days this week in London, in a different guest room with different friends, where I am currently writing this list.*
*I am actually now sending this from Berlin, but I wrote most of it in London!
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