Do you still laugh sometimes? Do you know how to lose yourself completely all over again in a moment of elemental joy—because of a view of houses, a human atmosphere, a song, a bit of landscape, a piece of film: in short a piece of good warm life? It’s something I love so much in you.
[Simone Weil, from a letter to Albertine Thévenon]

if I were stranded on a desert island with any one of my three current top contenders for “Single Food I Would Take to a Desert Island if I Could Only Take One Food”:

1. Nutella
2. Peanut M&M’s
3. Sweet Southern Heat Barbecue potato chips