89. READ.LOOK.THINK.

READ: “When the book was done and sent to her agent, she became immensely convivial for a few weeks.” | “Food, like sex, is very difficult to write about without descending into cliché or embarrassingly purple prose.” | Furler wrote Rihanna’s “Diamonds” in 14 minutes. | Bury the dead. | “The agony of labour is unbearably real, I felt it, but pain becomes immediately abstract once it has passed – possible to recall, impossible to re-feel.” (A whole episode of OTHERPPL dedicated to writers’ birth stories.) | Currently reading, late: Life After Life.

LOOK: Heide Museum of Modern Art in Kinfolk. My Sunday is named for Sunday Reed. | Apartment, Carlton North. | The weighing of the heart. | Leafy locks. | I made the Green Kitchen Stories frozen pink cheesecake for Easter. There’s a pic on my Instagram” @thejessicastanley. Nice, but it was a bit shown up by a beautiful victoria sponge someone else brought. I should’ve saved it for summer. | Season’s eatings. | “I’m satisfied that people are finding the strength of my work.”

THINK: It doesn’t matter whether the entity is a company, government or an individual, expenses cannot exceed income. | The liberal arts nanny. | HORMONES.