How are you all doing? It’s been a strange week. I might do some yard work this weekend. I’m craving outdoor activity.
Have a good weekend. Keep your distance and stay well.
- Quarantined Italians Send a Message to Themselves 10 Days Ago: What They Wish They Knew Then (Open Culture)
- Survivalist Bunker Where Some Wealthy People Hope to Ride Out Coronavirus (Vanity Fair) — It struck me as a little ironic how this bunker owner talks about how there won’t be a pecking order among those living in the bunker. Everyone will have their chores to do.
- Why Teenagers Reject Parents’ Solutions to Their Problems (The New York Times) — I need a teenager on which to practice not giving solutions. It would be so hard to hold back ideas!
- I planned to include articles about the latest Emma movie, but since we can’t go to the movies right now, I’ll share them later. Instead, I’m reposting “best of” movie links from the end of last year. We can watch these films at home.
- The 15 Best Movies of 2019 – K. Austin Collins’s List and The 10 Best Movies of 2019 – Richard Lawson’s List (Vanity Fair)
- Best Movies of 2109 (The New York Times)
- 10 Best Movies of 2019 (Slate)
- Best Movies of 2019 (Vox)
- And for all of the kids home from school.
- The 10 best movies for kids of 2019 (Insider)
- 25 Kids’ Movies Coming out in 2019 That Are Worth a Trip to the Theater (Good Housekeeping)
- I have other ideas here: Making the Most of Things While Social Distancing.
- The Art of Walking (Man Repeller) — Thank goodness we can still get out for walks.
- Goodness: “Andrà tutto bene” (Everything will be all right): message of hope spreads in Italy. (The Guardian)
About the photo: Pussy willows at Fresh Pond reservoir in Cambridge, MA.