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in celebration
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Is there a more joyful sentiment? I think not, not after the year of 2020. Challenges continue, but May 2021 feels a wonderful time to celebrate every grand happiness and tiny joy we can name.
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First up for me is the thrill my sweet daughter, Eliza—whom long-time readers of The Daily Grace know well, for alongside me you have watched her grow up—Eliza is to be married one week from today. We are giddy! We are also grateful, in particular to the scientists behind the COVID vaccine who have made a real wedding possible.
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It's a busy time so I'll keep this short. But post-wedding, it is my intent to get back to The Daily Grace with more regular writings and sharings.
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Thank you for being here with me.
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Oh, the time my friends and I have spent discussing this very thing:
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For months I've been meaning to write a post on my favorite reads of the year. There have been many! (That post is to come.) Right now, though, I'll share this little gem, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, which I've just finished on audio. In seven short "lessons," Italian Theoretical Physicist Carlo Rovelli covers Einstein’s theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, the architecture of the cosmos, elementary particles, quantum gravity, probability and the heat of black holes. And he relates it all to how humans fit into the picture. He does this in such an accessible way that these essays were first featured in the Culture section of the Italian newspaper in which they appeared. The New York Times wrote: He compares Einstein’s general theory of relativity — which explains that the force of gravity, as we perceive it, actually arises from the curvature of space and time — to Mozart’s “Requiem,” Homer’s “Odyssey,” the Sistine Chapel and “King Lear” in terms of its soul-expanding qualities. He reminds us that the word “quark” was plucked, by the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann, from a seemingly meaningless word in a nonsensical phrase in “Finnegans Wake”: “Three quarks for Muster Mark!”
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Nadiya Bakes, on Netflix. If you're in the mood for something gorgeous, happy and colorful, this show is for you. (You don't have to be a baker to love it. I'm not.)
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Genius hesitates.
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FROM THE DAILY GRACE ARCHIVES
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Seasons.
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We live our lives in seasons, moving gently from one to the next, so quiet it’s hardly worth a notice most days. And then something happens that catapults you into awareness—a job change, the death of a parent, your child going to college—and the change feels intense and immediate and shocking. But it's okay. It's all going to be okay.
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It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.
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