The world calls them its singers & poets & artists & storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland. - L.M. Montgomery
My grandmother: Why are young people always tired now?
Me: Because life is expensive.
My grandmother: Life was expensive before too.
Me: Yeah but now everybody also has emails.
My grandmother: suspicious pause What is an email exactly?
Me: Like a letter except people expect answers immediately.
My grandmother: Horrifying.
Me: Correct.
My grandmother: When your grandfather was angry at work he had to physically carry his anger home first.
Me: That's actually a really good point.
My grandmother: Now sadness arrives instantly.
long pause
Me: You ever think technology made everybody emotionally available all the time?
My grandmother: Of course.
Me: That seems bad.
My grandmother: It is terrible for soup.
Me: What does that mean?
My grandmother: People do not sit quietly while cooking anymore.
Honestly old women really will explain modern society through soup metaphors.
My friend lived in Osaka for almost three years and said the weirdest part about Japan wasn't the technology or the vending machines or any of that, It was how quietly people noticed things.
He used to stop at the same tiny ramen place after work maybe twice a week, six seats total, old couple running it together.
The husband cooked, the wife handled customers.
Very normal place.
One winter he disappeared for about a month because he went back home unexpectedly after his dad had a stroke.
When he returned, he walked into the ramen shop around 10 PM and the old woman looked up and said, "Your family okay now?"
He froze.
Because he had never told them anything about his life.
Not once.
He asked, "How did you know something happened?"
And she looked genuinely confused by the question, then she goes, "You stopped ordering extra noodles."
That was it.
Apparently every single time he came in after work he ordered an extra portion without fail.
For almost two years.
Then suddenly he vanished for weeks and when he came back he only ordered one bowl.
She noticed immediately.
He said that somehow hit harder than people back home sending him long emotional texts.
Just an old woman quietly paying attention to whether or not he was hungry.
the scene where they're finding the correct human voice for Rocky is so cute and Rocky is such a scene-stealer here omg. Him stamping his foot in joy and doing a little dance when they finally found a voice that matched his vibe #diva#projecthailmary
The Project Hail Mary team just dropped an official template to build Rocky’s transparent enclosure. Yes, you can actually make his little habitat using plastic sheets, cutting, folding and glue.
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