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Rain sometimes makes you sad at night. Today, I’ll tell you what I do when I’m down. And it involves a lot of imagination.
Hasn’t it happened to you that you have a great experience and then have a moral slide down? I had too much Brazil because this week has been an absolute downturn. Maybe it’s the rain hitting my window, but I’ve been feeling down.
In these cases, as a cure for nostalgia, I mentally go to places that make me feel good. And mine, par excellence, is the sea. Water is a balm for me. It doesn’t matter if it’s the cold sea of Scotland or New York — like the one in the photo — or the one that makes me dive off the Mexican coast.
The point is that since the sea makes me feel good, I want to share today’s menu with you. It includes a book about sea creatures and their difficult lives, a Brazilian song, a story about the ocean, and a short essay on that.
A book 📕
This is one of those books I say “How this idea didn’t occur to me before?”. Sabrina Imbler is a marine biologist, and as a queer person, she tells us about her life through ten sea creatures.
There are ten essays that mix a creature with a life process. I loved the concept. I enjoyed the first rehearsals more than the last ones. The first is about a goldfish. I learned a lot about how the fish people throw down the toilet have become a pest (they stop being golden and become gigantic). But I also liked how you can talk about the “strangeness” of a little fish.
I was also a fan of the essay recounting the last days of a female octopus and how Imbler combines them with memories about her mother. It is a moving book and, at the same time, full of curious facts about sea creatures.
You can How Far The Light Reaches get the original version through this link.
A song 🎶
One of the most beautiful moments of my last week was in the centre of São Paulo, when a colleague (tqm Carla) took us to an old house with musical history, so…
