Current Delights 6.17.21

Andrew Wyeth, Wind from the Sea 1947

1. You can listen to one of the audiobooks I narrated, and it won't cost you a thing! It's The Tethering by Megan O'Russell, the first book in a 4-part young adult fantasy series. Happy June Is Audiobook Month!
2. Raya and the Last Dragon is absolutely gorgeous. Looking forward to catching In the Heights soon.
3. Today I'm making this excellent lemony-potato salad with mint today. (It's a staple side dish for me)
4. My research for audiobook narration sends me down all kinds of interesting searches. Here's an article I stumbled across while looking up "Bowie Knife" --> Talk Like a Texan: The Pronunciation of Bowie Knife, Jim Bowie, and David Bowie. I thought it was "BOE-ee," but while that's what many people also think, it sounds more like "BOO-ee."
5. "It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now." Hugh Laurie.
6. Currently reading Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell and Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots; listening to Max Brooks's Devolution (which is a fictional Sasquatch horror novel told in journal entries, interviews, reports, etc. it's got a full cast with Judy Greer at the helm and it's so good).
7. Oliver Burkeman has one of my favorite newsletters (and if you click the link on his name, you can sign up on that page). Today's installment included thinking about anxiety: 

And you find it above all, in my experience, not with any kind of mental insight or cognitive exercise, but in action: inching forward into the future, doing tiny bits of the things that are causing the anxiety, committing a little more to the relationships you're feeling tentative about – and discovering, in each moment, further concrete evidence than in fact you can cope with what reality tosses your way. ("It's easier to act yourself into new ways of thinking than to think yourself into new ways of acting.") My life so far provides zero reason to believe I'll ever attain the degree of control over the future I always thought I needed. But then again, my track record of not yet having been entirely overwhelmed by existence suggests that maybe I never needed it to begin with.