Good Things: Currently Stuck In My Head Edition

Good Thing One: How To Be Alone by Tanya Davis (Thanks! to Jen for the video goodness.)

Go to the movies where it’s dark and soothing, alone in your seat amidst a fleeting community. And then, take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. Stand on the outside of the floor till the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no one’s watching, because, they’re probably not. And, if they are, assume it is with best of human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is, after all, gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you’re sweating, and beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things, down your back like a brook of blessings.

Society is afraid of alone, though. Like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements. Like people must have problems if after a while no one is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it.

Good Thing Two: Dynamite A Cappella Cover by Mike Tompkins

While it’s undeniable that Mr. Tompkins definitely knows he’s ridiculously charming, he’s also insanely talented, and this video just makes me ridiculously happy.

Good Thing Three: Literature, Speaking To Me

My sister is currently reading Anna Karenina and sent this to me when she read it two weeks ago. I haven’t read Tolstoy in years (and haven’t ever read this particular book), and have thus decided to read both Lolita (Nabokov) and Anna Karenina before the end of the year.

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I’d honestly love to hear what’s currently on repeat in your head. Share the wisdom! Share the nonsense! I’m a big fan of both.