5 Things Making Me Happy
Speaking of audio books, a few years ago, as a holiday gift to listeners, I recorded Charles Dickens’s timeless story, “A Christmas Carol.” You probably have a general sense of the characters and plot, but if you’ve never actually read (or heard) the story, it’s scarier, funnier, and more thought-provoking than you might expect.
You can find those episodes here and here.
I have lots of holiday decorations, and I especially enjoy the decorations that have some personal layer of relevance—my Winston Churchill figure, my ceramic “Kansas City Plaza Lights” tower, the star I made in kindergarten. I’ve had these figures from “A Christmas Carol” for years, but after I recorded the story, they became much more meaningful to me. It makes me happy to look at them.
The night before Thanksgiving, Jamie and I walked down a block that held some of the giant balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was fun to see them up close. Here, a trapped Smurf.
I love anything that helps me grasp the vastness of the universe and the span of eons, and I was mesmerized by this gorgeous video, “Timelapse of the Entire Universe” by John D. Boswell.
I’m honored to be part of Selena Gomez’s Rare Beauty Mental Health Council, and I admire so much the work that she does to educate people about the importance of mental health and to make more resources available. I just watched her new Apple TV+ documentary, “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me”—such a revealing, thought-provoking exploration of her struggles with bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, lupus, fame, and finding purpose. It opens with the words “Let me make you a promise. I’ll only tell you my darkest secrets."
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