Hard to believe the second month of the year is already gone. That’s part of why I like this weekly check-in: it forces me to slow down a bit and notice what’s whipping past.<\/p>\n
And with that, here are three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n
1. There are fresh batteries in the laser pointer and the cats charge around the apartment in pursuit of it. <\/p>\n
2. We’ve had snowdrops since January, and the daffodils have been opening around town since early February, but on Sunday I see my first crocuses (croci?) of the season.<\/p>\n
3. We head down to the Kennedy Center for an evening of Icelandic music, part of their Nordic Festival. S\u00c3\u00b3ley was relaxed trance music. FM Belfast was entertaining pop (although a bit screechy at the beginning) and most of them stripped down to their drawers for “Underwear.” And in between was a group I discovered on the flight over to Reykjavik a couple years back: Retro Stefson. Despite winning the Icelandic equivalent of a Grammy recently, they were relatively unknown to the crowd, but they quickly won the crowd over, and I anticipate it being hard to get tickets to see them the next time they come to the U.S.<\/p>\n