Love and romance are always in season – online and offline

The White House, Élysée Palace, and No. 10 Downing Street have asked Tinder to help them with campaigns to increase COVID vaccination preparedness. Right to the heart: love and romance never lose their appeal.

Modern Love

Tinder is the world’s most downloaded and highest revenue-generating dating app, the investor relations team at Match, whose brands include Tinder, reported in August 2021.

The company expects further sales increases in parallel with global vaccination progress.

GloriousMe does not recommend stocks of pharmaceutical companies or Match Group, knowing that individual stocks can never be the last word in wisdom.

Our recommendation is romance.

Love in 100 words

The New York Times announced a contest in 2004. The task: to tell a love story with a maximum of 100 words.

Just as many characters as, say, two tweets or an Instagram text use. The opportunity: a publication of the story in the New York Times.

That’s right, the newspaper known for the most socially important wedding announcements – Charlotte York’s dream in Sex and the City.

The New York Times’ Tiny Little Love Stories are still a reader favorite after 17 years. There is no default other than the 100 words and the theme of love.

Irresistible

The short love stories are edited by two NYT editors who have a professional flair for well-written stories.

Would you stop reading a story that begins, “My first boyfriend, Howie, was matzo ball soup: warm and homey, wonderful on a cool wintry day, but not a lot of sex appeal…”

The days are getting shorter and colder, the global events even more dramatic. In the evening, comfort is sometimes needed in the form of hot chicken broth and/or the romance of Tiny Little Love Stories, which is now also available as a book edition or podcast.

A selection of the Tiny Little Love stories have been made into a film under the title Modern Love and can be seen on AmazonPrime.

If you can make it there

The first eight episodes of the first season are set in New York and feature a stellar cast, including Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada), Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and John Slattery(Mad Men).

Even if our heart usually beats more for auteur cinema and we consider independent bookstores an essential part of urban culture – these surprising and almost always touching short films about love are impossible to resist.

Another main character in the first season is the city of New York. In Covid times, just the sight of yellow cabs, a doorman, the coffee shops, the bridges over the Hudson, not to mention Central Park, makes the heart beat faster.

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PERFECT SKIN. THE BOOK.

Almost cherish plans to move there. For practice, we recommend the original language version, without subtitles.

The Blue Flower

In a world where immense global challenges are piling up on each other like giant ice floes, it is not surprising that the age of romance is gaining prominence in love and cultural sensibilities.

In the politically difficult times of Romanticism, the Blue Flower was the symbol of yearning hope, the transfiguration of the idyll and nature.

For example, Schumann’s songs are currently experiencing a renaissance, prices on the art market for Romantic painters are rising, and Germany’s first museum of Romanticism has opened in Frankfurt am Main.

Why not. Painters such as John Constable and Caspar David Friedrich, as well as writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Burns, are well deserving of a second look.

More probably than the continuation of Sex and the City, whose episodes we loved when they first aired, but whose continuation gives the impression of reheated leftover food that (with the exception of stews) usually promises more than it delivers.

We prefer Modern Love.