Had a good day at the gym
Here is some more wonderful Pokémon TCG Jungle set by illustrator Kagemaru Himeno 😍
But one is a stranger, a woman she notices while she sits on a bench, gathering herself. It’s a type of woman she has never seen before, because there are no old women in Barbieland. When Barbie looks at her, she finds her beautiful and tells her so. The woman already knows. Suddenly Barbie, the fraught aspirational figure, has beheld someone she might aspire to be, and it is a radiantly content nonagenarian, reading a newspaper on a Los Angeles bench, who knows what she’s worth.
“The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, ‘Honey, you’re doing OK’ — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people,” Gerwig says. When it was suggested that this scene, which Gerwig calls a “transaction of grace,” might be cut for time, she remembers thinking: “If I cut that scene, I don’t know why I’m making this movie. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”
“How is it that someone like you would be by my side? Would cry for me? Why do I wish for it? I know I shouldn’t, I know I don’t have any right to… I know it’s a mistake to be by your side… So why can’t I help wanting to treasure you this time… to never leave you? I can’t help wishing.”
