The Old Heart Beet Kitchen

Pre-COVID I used to love to visit Heart Beet Kitchen in Westmont. It was vegan and gluten free and beyond delicious. Once lockdown was lifted, they changed hands as well as renaming the place Goodbeet (how dumb is that?!) and I've never returned. The menu is still very similar but it appears that all the dishes went up five dollars in price. Insanity. In going through my photos, I found screenshots of the original menu. Maybe one day I'll try to make my own Coconut BLT - the yummiest sandwich of all time!

Apps & Salads

Brunch:

Entrees:

Smoothies:

Boatlift

It's so hard to believe that it's been two and a half decades. Today I rewatched a brilliant short film entitled Boatlift, narrated by Tom Hanks. It told of the ferries and boats that descended on Manhattan island and spirited people away from the fallen towers and the dust filled sky and transported them to safety. To see the images of boats, owned and operated individually, flock toward danger in order to help was so powerfully moving. It's impossible not to cry throughout the entire eleven plus minute film. The part that always makes me bawl is when Hanks says "...larger than the evacuation of Dunkirk in World War II, where 339,000 British and French soldiers were rescued over the course of nine days. On 9/11, nearly 500,000 civilians were rescued from Manhattan by boat. It took less than nine hours." It reminded me of how in the months following the attacks that people kept out their American flags all year round. They had bumper-stickers that read "These colors don't run." It felt like how the country is supposed to be - united. 

See You Later

More from Mel Odom

Statue of Liberty

Country of Desire

Night Flight

(kidnapped from Mel Odom's Instagram account: a13mel.odom)

Man or Bear

Last year I kept seeing posts on Instagram and hearing about a debate. It went like this: would you rather (as a woman) be alone in the forest with a man or a bear? When posed to a man it would be: would you rather your daughter be alone in the woods with a man or a bear? Not once did anyone online, that I read/saw, or the people I asked in real life, choose a man. 

These were some of the comments on posts about the debate that left me shuddering:

• If I survive the bear attack, I won't have to see the bear at family reunions.

• The worst thing the bear can do is kill me.

• The bear sees me as a human being.

• After what those men did to that monitor lizard, the bears are not safe with men either.

• The bear doesn't get enjoyment out of it.

• The bear didn't pretend to be my friend for months beforehand.

• No one will say that I liked the bear attack.

• No one will talk about the bear's "bright future".

• If the bear and the man both wanna hurt me and I scream loud enough, there's a better chance that the bear will actually run away.

• A bear wouldn't film it and send it to all of his friends.

• The men getting angry at this don't realise that there are fates worse than death.

Growing

Look at this GORGEOUS artwork by Barbara's lovely daughter Sophie. I am beyond impressed and wish I could see it in real life...

(Here's a link to Sophie's Instagram account.)

Fuselage Sorrows

Love Is All I Have - LP

From the Start - Laufey ¹ 

Waste Your Heart - Magnus Ferrell

Let 'Em In - Wings

I Knew It, I Knew You - Taylor Swift 

I Was Made For Lovin' You (orchestral version) - Yungblud

Maybe Not Tonight - Glen Hansard *

Devil Always Made Me Think Twice - Chris Stapleton

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

All I Wanted - Paramore ¹ 

Suffocation - Against Me!

The Wolf Is Getting Married - Sinéad O'Connor

Save Me - Kelly Osbourne

Don't Save Me - HAIM

Spirits in the Material World - The Police

Holding On - The War On Drugs

Tonight Is Forever - Liza Minnelli

Goodbye - Ozzy Osbourne

East Coasting - Charles Mingus

Hanging Out to Dry - Florence Road

Jane! - The Long Faces ¹ 

Hold Tight! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich

Working Man - Rush ¹ 

Midnight Rider - The Allman Brothers

Easy - Troye Sivan

Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother ¹ 

The Tear of the Year - Jackie Wilson

Il sole sorge ancora - MOTS

Dear Heart - Thin Lizzy ¹ 

De-Luxe - Lush

Way Down We Go - KALEO

The Payoff - Father John Misty 

Conscious Uncoupling - Pool Kids

Blue Blood - Foals

Dagger Through The Heart - Dolly Parton

Cigarettes in the Theatre - Two Door CInema Club

BDR - Chelsea Peretti w/ Kathleen Hanna, Ad-Rock, & Money Mark 

She Bangs the Drums - The Stone Roses

June - IDLES

Diane - Hüsker Dü

Fighter - Imanbek & LP

A Fragile Thing - The Cure

And I Love Her - Kurt Cobain ¹ 

 - Summer 2026 Playlist

*In mid June I was in a shop in Phoenixville and they had this song playing. I Shazamed it, chatted with the shop-lady about how gorgeous Glen Hansard's voice is and added it to my playlist. A month later he would be gone. 

¹ - These songs were introduced to me through Jackson.