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Hello!
How was your week? Along with my turning 44, we finally started school which means I also dusted off my teaching hat. Two days a week Iβm around teens, and I genuinely love it. This year Iβm teaching British literature, which is my absolute favorite (I wish this could somehow be a class field trip), so my next nine months will be filled with Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, Shelley, Lewis, and other familiar friends.

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1.Β πΒ New episode of A Drink With a Friend!Β πΒ Thereβs a purity to our childhood perspectives, and if weβre quiet enough, we can still hear them whisper to us. Seth helps me unpack a process heβs recently experienced as he listened to his nine-year-old self. Loved this chat.
2.Β Speaking of Seth, I nodded along as I read this recent piece of his because itβs so similar to my own story: βWeβre struggling to answer this question:Β Why did we do this whole church-thing in the first place? Itβs a question not born of cynicism... Instead, itβs a practical question, one born from the recognition that life was a little more relaxed without the religious gathering.β
3.Β I really like this foundational list.
4. One way Iβve been getting some short, thrice-weekly news updates: The Pour Over. Yes, itβs a faith-based curated newsletter and podcast, but not like that, I promise (so far, anyway). In the time Iβve subscribed (roughly a year), theyβve lived up to their tagline of βnot conservative, not liberal, just Christian.β Might be up your alley, too.
5.Β And finallyβ¦Β This farmerβs unconventional βsheep artβ is mesmerizing.
Currently Reading, Watching, Listening π
Humility Rules: St. Benedictβs 12-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem, by J. Augustine Wetta
Quotable π¬
βThe great thing about getting older is that you donβt lose all the other ages youβve been.β
β Madeline LβEngleΒ #
Inside The Commonplace π‘
This week, in honor of my 44 revolutions around the sun, I shared 44 things currently on my mind:
34. Speaking again of mood lifters,Β Iβm here for this.
35. This is quite possibly the first summer in my adulthood that I didnβt try to will away the summer heat with mental mind games, and instead simply let it be βΒ and I found beauty in it, even in its scorched-earth state. It made the heat so much more palatable.
36. That saidβ¦ bring it on, fall. Iβm ready for you. I miss my daily walks.
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This thread is delightful! Click through for the animal gallery. π
Question For You to Ponderβ¦ π€
One month from now, what you will you wish you had spent time on today?
Have a good weekend!
xo, Tsh
p.s. I already shared this in my 44 things list, but seriously⦠this is such a delight.