When the Rain Comes, Sit tight.

Oh how I wish I didn’t have meetings and class to attend today! It’s another beautifully rainy day in Carrboro and I love enjoying it—from the inside out.

There’s nothing that I love more than the sound of gentle rain… I like to keep windows and the screen door open to hear the beautiful noise.

Days like these are the perfect ones to curl up with a book, a film, or a few blogs to read. Recommendations? Here ya go…

Book: Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is beautiful and surreal, the perfect book to get lost in. Still not tantalized? Check out this New York Times book review.

Film: The 1999 version of Alice in Wonderland. (Guess what folks? It’s on Netflix!) Whoopi Goldberg is the Cheshire cat, Martin Short is the Mad Hatter, and Gene Wilder is the Mock Turtle. Can it get any better than that?

Blogs: Sociological Images—one of Maddie’s favorite blogs—looks at images in our culture

I just had to post this little sweetie! How cute is that?! If anyone tells you they’re for animal testing, please show them this photo… click for the link to an NPR article on the Lesula Monkey!

and the issues surrounding them. Great for visual people like me who think that pictures say at least 1,000 words and an in depth perspective of them? Why that’s even better. I recommend this post on the recent “discovery” of the Lesula monkey, aka the cutest thing since Beans. This post from Choosing Raw looks at the “Why Raw?” question. It’s a great, thought provoking read, so get to it!

Another thing that makes a rainy day swell?

Freshly baked whole wheat biscuits topped with my favorite: strawberry jam and surrounded by my roses.

What makes your rainy days beautiful and bright?

Bisous!

Rachel

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9 thoughts on “When the Rain Comes, Sit tight.”

An Unrefined Vegan on September 18, 2012 at 10:17 am said:

Soooo cozy! You are making me wish for rain. Great links, too .

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- Rachel in Veganland on September 18, 2012 at 10:20 am said:
  
  thanks, Annie! Definitely food for thought!
  
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the bear and the blackberry on September 19, 2012 at 1:51 am said:

Ooh I like the sociological images blog, thanks for sharing.! I am anticipating rain here in too-sunny-lately-California… ahhh.. rain.. : )

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toxicvegan on September 19, 2012 at 8:18 am said:

Sounds idyllic – Murakami is one of my favourite authors

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- Rachel in Veganland on September 19, 2012 at 12:59 pm said:
  
  I just love the novel! Hopefully I’ll finish it on the next rainy day that swings around!
  
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  - toxicvegan on September 20, 2012 at 10:02 am said:
    
    Have you read Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World? Sputnik Sweetheart? Honestly I’m not sure I’ve read one that I didn’t love! Enjoy it on your next rainy day – we get a lot of those here!!
  - Rachel in Veganland on September 21, 2012 at 11:25 am said:
    
    I’m so jealous of you in the UK and your rain! OOh and I haven’t read those but I’m going to check them out!!
  - toxicvegan on September 21, 2012 at 12:04 pm said:
    
    Ha ha! Rain we got. Food wagons with vegan food – not so much! You win!! Let me know what you think if you read those books – I loved them both x
  - Rachel in Veganland on September 21, 2012 at 12:07 pm said:
    
    I’m going to get them from the local bookshop ASAP!