5 Quick Things #198 đ
noticing, aging, eating, and outsmarting
Hey there,
Iâve got an unusually full Friday today (I do my best to keep these days light), not least of which is meeting with some students who want to pitch to me a travel idea, followed by driving eight hours to pick up a kiddo from her week at a new-to-her camp and bring her back home.
So, letâs not dilly-dally â on with the letter! đŞ

5 Quick Things âď¸
1. đ New episode of A Drink With a Friend! đ Noticing beauty is a habit, and itâs also not really optional if we want to live a sacramental life. In this episode, Seth and I share specific examples of beauty weâre currently witnessing â and youâre invited to nod along and notice your own as well.
2. I like these simple ways to âtake a vacationâ from home. (Weâve been playing a lot of bocce ball around here latelyâŚ)
3. Aging is inevitable, so why not do it joyfully? âWhat if instead of seeing aging as something to defeat and conquer, we were to embrace what gets better with age, and work to amplify these joys while mitigating the losses of youth?â I feel this in my bones.
4. Finding it hard these summer days to get necessary things done? Me too. I like these three simple tricks to outsmart procrastination.
5. And finallyâŚÂ I love this guyâs enthusiasm for learning about the world, and heâs right â most countries are better at doing breakfast than the U.S. Naturally, Iâm quite partial to the third one; I didnât even know not everyone ate these weekly until I met my Oregonian husband.
Currently Reading, Watching, Listening đ
This is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever you Are, by Melody Warnick
Quotable đŹ
âRub your eyes and purify your heart â and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well.â
âAleksander Solzhenitsyn #
From inside The Commonplace đĄ
We had a delightful live chat this past Monday evening, and Iâll post the recording next week for subscribers! In the meantime â there was a request to do another book club in the fall, and Iâm open to it⌠so long as itâs one of the books Iâm also teaching my students. Interested in a classics book club? Want to reread a book you last opened in English class and see if you feel differently about it as an adult? Let me know if you like this idea and weâll take it to the next step!
Elsewhere đ

Question For You to Ponder⌠đ¤
As you look at your to-do list for today, whatâs the one overarching thing youâre actually trying to accomplish?
Have a good weekend!
xo, Tsh
p.s. What a great hive-mind list.
I would enjoy reading and discussing another book with this group. Classics are great.
I am totally up for a classic book club read.