It’s so hard to think about happy things right now with the news being what it is. Just last night I fell into the doom scrolling hole and of course went to bed too late again. Maybe I should start a rule no news and social media after dinner? I definitely should.
Inspired by Elisabeth and San I am going to try to think about the happy things in my little life this week even if the world seems to be falling apart:
We celebrated a friends birthday with a tea party at another friends house. I got to catch up with a lot of women I have not seen in a long time. We had a little sharing circle and the resounding plan for 2026 to look for more in person connection. I think it’s an excellent plan. My contribution to the event were some flower decorations (thanks to our backyard and Trader Joes).
I organized tickets to go to the Art of Manga exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. My daughter loves drawing and since it was about Manga even my son agreed to come along. It was really cool and got me more interested in checking out books by some of the artists especially Land by Kazumi Yamashita, Mao as well as the Mermaid Saga by Rumiko Takahashi or a book about Steve Jobs by Mari Yamazaki.
I got to meet with my fiber arts buddies on Monday via Zoom. We started this sometime last year and it’s nice to have some company while working on projects and chat about it. I met both of them through my German online book club and it has been a lot of fun.
The students are back! It was a long winter break here on the Berkeley campus and this week the students are finally back. The undergrads make the whole campus come to life and our lab gets busier again.
My daughter had her interview for an exchange program with our sister city in Japan. It’s competitive so even if she does not get to go in the end, getting to the interview stage was already great. I keep my fingers crossed for her and we should find out by mid February.
What was a good thing during your week?
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