Five Things This Week: week 13

Been a long week? Five Things This Week has got your back. These are guaranteed to lift your spirits. Let’s dive in!

Atlas Obscura
Name checking “The Valley of Hearts Delight”? Check. Heirloom stone fruit? Check! I now want to live in the South Bay again just to grow fruit trees!
NY Times
Does it?? I’m, uh, asking for a friend…
Seriously, though, it gets a little overly romantic as it goes on, but how many articles do you read that talk about Philip Glass as a plumber?
Washington Post
Here is your feel good story of the week. The title says it all. Well, it leaves out an important stat line: playing in an NHL game for the first time, Scott Foster had 7 stops in the fourteen minutes he played.
From the article, “Foster is one of a small group of ’emergency backup’ goaltenders who are kept on hand, usually in the press box or the stands, in the highly unlikely event both regular goalies on the roster are hurt or otherwise unavailable.
‘Among hockey’s great quirks,’ as Hockey News explained, ‘is that it’s the only pro sport with the potential for someone not on the roster to come out of the stands and actually play in the game.’ But, ‘it takes a very rare set of circumstances to open that door.'”
Pod Save America
On a Five Things a few weeks ago I recommended NPR as a relatively balanced place to get in-depth political insight. Pod Save America is unabashedly not balanced. It’s hard left, but in an incredibly thoughtful way that is largely missing. One of this weeks podcasts is given over completely to an interview with former Vice President Joe Biden, and it gives me hope. Well, it makes me sad he didn’t run, but it gives me hope that some day politics can return to normalcy. Some day…

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“Co-worker got his lunch stolen and they’ve agreed to let him watch the security camera tape.”
Twitter
This thread is one of the reasons I adore Twitter. Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of terrible stuff on Twitter, but I maintain it’s who you follow. I have a wonderfully eclectic list of folks I follow that almost always make me smile. And then there’s gems like this. Please, click on it, follow the thread, enjoy.