These lockdown weekends we get to share our tastes with each other. One weekend morning we watched Maira Kalman videos on Youtube.

Be allowed to be broken and go on anyway…

she said

Words to remember as we try to restore our sanity and get on with life. And Orin really enjoyed Cake, one of her lovely short films which is really a book.

Another Saturday we watched Cars. I remember really loving the character design in the past but I was so dismissive of the movie when it came out, saying “It’s just for four-year-olds!” I laugh at those words now, having seen Agastya go through his Cars phase and also Orin.

‘It’s not Mack Truck Amma, it’s a truck called Mack.”

says he.

And then one evening we were talking about lizards.