The Pleasure Lists Q&A: Julia Harrison
Pleasures, Curated by Julia Harrison
We’re back with another installment of
: Pleasures, Curated.I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I enjoy getting to know members of the Pleasure Lists community and what makes their Pleasures tick.
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This week’s Pleasure-seeker is
. Julia is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, and the founder of saloon. She writes a newsletter—as we all do—called orzo bimbo, and otherwise has written for Coveteur and the Sewanee Review.
Social links: @juliafharrison, juliafharrison.com
Location: Brooklyn, NY
- when birds walk and don't fly: the resolve of a bird to walk somewhere is such a delightful absurdity to me. like he fully knows he could get there faster if he'd use his body for its god-given purpose and yet he resists. so anarchist
- when dads think their little kids are super funny: i think dads for me and not moms because i already trust moms to find their kids super funny. and dads in my experience are harder to make laugh. and i just love to see a grown man and a three year old kid cracking up together, that's probably, in an image, the thing that could keep me alive forever.
- grated garlic: a microplane changed my life. i mean that without drama, it actually did.
- butterfly stretch: this is the only stretch that has ever felt good in my body
- head on my shoulder: a physical touch love lang kind of girl
- hotel pools: what a goddamn luxury. my grandparents used to stay at the double-tree across from sam's club when i was a kid and there was nothing like splashing around in that pool. i felt rich. to this day i'm thrilled to take a dip in a la quinta inn pool, especially late at night with the pool lights on, staying in some rural area of the desert. it's the most teenager feeling.
- petroglyphs: the second thing that could keep me alive forever. absolute magic to come across this shit. like everyone's been talking to you forever.
- when pillows smell like crush: also so teenager, i know, but this is a full body warmth feeling.
- walking out of an airplane, down stairs, and onto the tarmac: this makes me feel like humphrey bogart every single time, or a french diplomat. it's just the most glamorous thing to me.
- seeing people walk home with flowers: this is such an easy way to restore my faith in humanity, seeing people toting back nature's beautiful gifts to their lovers. i love thinking of how many people in new york every day are receiving just-thinking-of-you flowers.
- long-haired dachshunds at full speed: this is always such a great reality check for me. it's so easy to fall into our programmed melancholic state, to mourn ourselves, our lives, humanity, blah blah, and then you see a dachshund running as fast as he can across the park, which is about 7 mph, and his soft little hairs whipping in the wind. you're just forced there and then to reevaluate your malaise. i love them for it.
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What Is “Pleasures, Curated”?
Each week, a new Pleasure-seeker will document their personal Pleasures and ruminate a bit on what Pleasure means to them. True to
style, I keep the list-maker’s je ne sais quoi in as much as I can — only minor editorial changes are made when necessary. I do this intentionally so that the writer’s inner world really comes through. The style of the list says as much about the writer as the list itself.Read Previous Q&A’s:
Why submit a list?
Pleasure Lists are a summary of what you need, want, or have, or see at a particular moment in time. They are a survey, an overview, a summary of the crucial facts of the state of one aspect of your life. It’s a kind of blueprint that can be a guide to the future.
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