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 Iโm around teens, and I genuinely love it. This year Iโm 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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5 Quick Things โ๏ธ
1.ย ๐ย New episode of A Drink With a Friend!ย ๐ย Thereโs a purity to our childhood perspectives, and if weโre quiet enough, we can still hear them whisper to us. Seth helps me unpack a process heโs recently experienced as he listened to his nine-year-old self. Loved this chat.
2.ย Speaking of Seth, I nodded along as I read this recent piece of his because itโs so similar to my own story: โWeโre struggling to answer this question:ย Why did we do this whole church-thing in the first place? Itโs a question not born of cynicism... Instead, itโs a practical question, one born from the recognition that life was a little more relaxed without the religious gathering.โ
3.ย I really like this foundational list.
4. One way Iโve been getting some short, thrice-weekly news updates: The Pour Over. Yes, itโs a faith-based curated newsletter and podcast, but not like that, I promise (so far, anyway). In the time Iโve subscribed (roughly a year), theyโve lived up to their tagline of โnot conservative, not liberal, just Christian.โ Might be up your alley, too.
5.ย And finallyโฆย This farmerโs unconventional โsheep artโ is mesmerizing.
Currently Reading, Watching, Listening ๐
Humility Rules: St. Benedictโs 12-Step Guide to Genuine Self-Esteem, by J. Augustine Wetta
Quotable ๐ฌ
โThe great thing about getting older is that you donโt lose all the other ages youโve been.โ
โ Madeline LโEngleย #
Inside The Commonplace ๐ก
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,ย Iโm here for this.
35. This is quite possibly the first summer in my adulthood that I didnโt try to will away the summer heat with mental mind games, and instead simply let it be โย and I found beauty in it, even in its scorched-earth state. It made the heat so much more palatable.
36. That saidโฆ bring it on, fall. Iโm ready for you. I miss my daily walks.
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Elsewhere ๐
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This thread is delightful! Click through for the animal gallery. ๐
Question For You to Ponderโฆ ๐ค
One month from now, what you will you wish you had spent time on today?
Have a good weekend!
xo, Tsh
p.s.ย I already shared this in my 44 things list, but seriouslyโฆ this is such a delight.