Happy Monday: Monsters and Molly Ringwald

Happy Monday friends. It’s pouring rain here right now and the sky is the streaked with eight-fingers lightening bolts, which, let me tell you, is quite a way to kick off a Monday! Thanks to everyone who left kind words on my last post about my new artistic adventure – your encouragement prompted me to spend the whole weekend painting on the porch, totally ignoring anything that didn’t come in a tube labeled Winsor & Newton. I so, so needed that. Thank you! On to new adventures (and distractions) this week…

What happened when Molly Ringwald watched The Breakfast Club with her daughter and saw it from a parental perspective? Interesting.

For dummies: How to be a cat.

Her fiance died two weeks before their wedding and her response could not be more beautiful.

 

38 of the most haunting abandoned places on earth.

Three cheers for the San Francisco ballet!

Atticus Finch is a racist? WTF.

Word of the week: Altschmerz. n. “Weariness with the same old issues that you’ve always had—the same boring flaws and anxieties you’ve been gnawing on for years, which leaves them soggy and tasteless and inert, with nothing interesting left to think about, nothing left to do but spit them out and wander off to the backyard, ready to dig up some fresher pain you might have buried long ago.”

Holiday of the week: Yellow Pig Day, July 17, created by a group of Princeton mathematicians to commemorate pigs in text books, yet again proving why math people are gloriously weird.

Follow of the week: Mari Orr. Former chemist turned artist. Incredible eye for color (as evidenced by the swatch rainbow up top!) Her instagram feed is like a walk through a garden. Gorgeous!

The WWF put a go pro on a sea turtle to take us on a tour of the Great Barrier Reef. Prepare to watch it at least three times.