Best of The Best: Experiences
Joys big and small.
Hello and welcome to the third installment of the best of the best to occur in the last 365 days. If you’d like to get up to speed on the first two installments you can find them linked below.
Best of The Best: Reads
Hello and welcome to my four-part series, Best of The Best, aka a roundup of everything that was good in 2023. This series is selfishly my way to review, reflect and categorize the happenings of the past calendar year and acknowledge that there was inherently a lot of really, truly, quite lovely experiences. It’s my stake in the ground for all that
Best of The Best: Senses
In continuing with our mini series on the newsletter (you can find the first installment here), this week’s installment is a compilation of the best things I listened to, tasted, smelt and felt—aka 4/5 of the senses! From podcasts and music to conversations with friends and an occasional accidental overheard eavesdrop, nibbles of delectables and the bes…
I hope you’ve enjoyed this mini series as much as I’ve had writing it. First, we chatted about the best things I read because it was quite a good year for words! Last week was all about the senses: touch, taste, sound and smell; however I specifically left out sight. This is because I am a visual person on all accords and knew that including the final sense would dilute the others.
In continuing with our topic, today’s installment is all about the best experiences of 2023. Without further ado…
Harry Styles Concert
Oh this night was good fun and the story behind it is 😜…essentially, I found myself still abroad in London for work and had heard through the internet grapevine that Mr. Styles was still on tour. Dude had been on the road for three years! Seeing as this was the final month of the show + it being his home turf, and despite my minute-long mental should I? shouldn’t I? The ticket was in my inbox and the countdown was on!
I had fours days to prepare, because in case you were born yesterday, a Harry Styles concert is no casual event. There are girls in banana costumes, lewd signage, rainbow boas and rhinestones and flowers galore! Truly once the concert begins the man puts on a performance like nothing I’ve seen before and it just solidifies that he is meant to be a—or even the—showman of our generation. It’s in the way he fills a stadium of 90,000 people from all different ages, countries, genders, ethnicities…all different facets of humanity come together with no strife (unless you cut into their view). Quick highlights include, but are not limited to: