Weekly Love Letter for Friday, February 20th

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“We have friends in town with their 9-month-old son. Walking around Tokyo with a baby is like living in a different city. People interact with you when normally they would avoid eye contact, and they do anything they can to entertain the baby when they usually just fall asleep on the train. Even the most unlikely people get excited when they see him. We walked into the coolest hipster coffee shop, fully expecting to get dirty looks, and all of the staff immediately started cooing and acting like idiots to get him to smile. The most excited one was a sweet 20-something guy who even came over to our table to take some photos and hold the baby. It was delightful, and maybe bordering just a liiiittle tiny bit creepy. Thankfully our friends are wonderfully relaxed parents!”

*These embroidered travel “photos” are so inspiring. What talent!

*How beautiful is this botanical garden dome in Singapore? Just a spectacular juxtaposition of modern technology and nature.

*I’m a bit obsessed with za’atar these days, and I’m pretty excited to try this za’atar eggs benedict.

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“Audience participation Friday: hands up if you knew that cows aren’t really dangerous animals! I… didn’t. We went on an awesome hike with weather in the seventies last weekend and the one teeny tiny hiccup? The herds of cows crossing at random intervals along the path. They were pretty cute and definitely seemed more scared of us than we were of them, but I feel like you don’t just TAKE THAT CHANCE. I was getting a good vibe from one sweet brown one and thought he might like to pet me and JUST as I wondering aloud it started sauntering toward me. You’d freak out too, right? I’m not the only crazy Californian who thinks cows could attack? (I guess they don’t? Will that be my last chance to ever pet a cow? So many questions!)”