It was one of those rare yet coveted moments, the kind people travel to yoga retreats and climb moments to get: It felt totally effortless to just be here.
Rosie, thank you so much for linking to The Auntie Bulletin! Your links round up was full of ideas and articles that I can’t wait to write about in my own newsletter. ❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely love the pieces from How to Train Your Dragon (we have a cat in the family named Merlin who looks a *lot* like toothless the dragon.) Looking forward to digging deeper, since our time watching animated movies as a family has decreased dramatically over the years. (My suggestion as return is the score to The Martian is lovely, I find it very peaceful and majestic to listen to.)
I found your substack through your writing about the village--and can't get enough! You should totally do more podcasts btw. I'm a new mom and torn between the adventure and freedom of a more nomadic lifestyle and deeply investing in a place. We (hubby + baby + me) just spent the last week at https://www.edgecity.live/lanna where we met lots of cool "worldschooling" families forming their village on the road. In this pop-up village I felt connections form more quickly (likeminded people + daily exposure). There was a common "social house" where babies would hang out and parents organized in a chat to share childcare responsibilities and organize fun field trips/events for the kiddos. OTOH, we have 2 sets of grandparents that live a 10 min walk from one another "back home" and nothing can compare to that undconditional love that they have for us/our daughter.
I am also tracking a lot of experiments in the DIY "village" space. Here are a few fun links you might be interested in:
Thank you so much, this is super interesting. Do you have an email I can contact you at? Or you can contact me directly rosiespinks [at] gmail [dot] com
I loved this! I also enjoy film scores - I tend to think of them as modern day 'classical' music. One of my favourites is the score to 'Meet Joe Black' - I love that. There are others too, there's a song from Pedro Almodovar's film, Talk To Her (2002) called 'Cururrucucu Paloma' which I can't ever hear too many time. There are so many more too...
I also loved your apology about the US elections to those of us no in America - you're the second person this week who has done that. I have a friend in Texas who emailed me, ending with - please forgive us if we screw this up! :)
Sent this to the composer of the Luca score, Dan Romer, who is a friend. Loved this post - thanks Rosie
Oh my, this comment has fully made my day. Thank you! 🙏🏼
Rosie, thank you so much for linking to The Auntie Bulletin! Your links round up was full of ideas and articles that I can’t wait to write about in my own newsletter. ❤️❤️❤️
Pleasure! I will email you soon...
Thanks for linking to the As if We Were Staying post, I really enjoyed it.
It’s great, right?
So touched by this piece. Thank you 🙏
Absolutely love the pieces from How to Train Your Dragon (we have a cat in the family named Merlin who looks a *lot* like toothless the dragon.) Looking forward to digging deeper, since our time watching animated movies as a family has decreased dramatically over the years. (My suggestion as return is the score to The Martian is lovely, I find it very peaceful and majestic to listen to.)
Our cat looks like toothless too!
The animators used cats as their models! We had a cat named Mushroom when it came out, and he looked dead-on like Toothless
We also listen to the Luca score all the time in our house! It's magic and also, calming. Looking forward to listening to the whole playlist.
I found your substack through your writing about the village--and can't get enough! You should totally do more podcasts btw. I'm a new mom and torn between the adventure and freedom of a more nomadic lifestyle and deeply investing in a place. We (hubby + baby + me) just spent the last week at https://www.edgecity.live/lanna where we met lots of cool "worldschooling" families forming their village on the road. In this pop-up village I felt connections form more quickly (likeminded people + daily exposure). There was a common "social house" where babies would hang out and parents organized in a chat to share childcare responsibilities and organize fun field trips/events for the kiddos. OTOH, we have 2 sets of grandparents that live a 10 min walk from one another "back home" and nothing can compare to that undconditional love that they have for us/our daughter.
I am also tracking a lot of experiments in the DIY "village" space. Here are a few fun links you might be interested in:
- https://www.familyvillagecoop.com/
- https://allonething.xyz/
- https://www.jaegoshouse.co.uk/
- https://www.clubjoyful.com/
and here's an overview of the general "hub" concept for multigen 3rd spaces https://hub.eudaform.org/
would love to jam more on this sometime if you're open to it!
Thank you so much, this is super interesting. Do you have an email I can contact you at? Or you can contact me directly rosiespinks [at] gmail [dot] com
I love everything about this. Luca is a family favorite, but I Will now rediscover the score with new curiosity.
Love that all the Luca fans are coming out in these comments :)
Always a god damn joy of my whole week!
Ohhh this is gorgeous. Thank you for the mention – and thanks Dan for the playlist, listening now and suddenly I feel majestic x
Thank you for the inspiration!
This was so touching! 🥹🧡🧡🧡 listening to the playlist now.
I loved this! I also enjoy film scores - I tend to think of them as modern day 'classical' music. One of my favourites is the score to 'Meet Joe Black' - I love that. There are others too, there's a song from Pedro Almodovar's film, Talk To Her (2002) called 'Cururrucucu Paloma' which I can't ever hear too many time. There are so many more too...
I also loved your apology about the US elections to those of us no in America - you're the second person this week who has done that. I have a friend in Texas who emailed me, ending with - please forgive us if we screw this up! :)
Tesco fishcakes and beans carried me through many a tea time with sauce covered little fingers! Looking forward to listening to the songs.
Thank you!