5 Quick Things #212 ๐
Astronomers, pine-needle beermakers, & fall-ified homemakers
Hey there!
Itโs a beautiful morning here in central Texas and I just walked in the door from a nice, long morning walk with the doggo. The kids have an all-day school event (and the oldest can drive themselves there!) and Iโve lit the candle that nobody else in the family likes, so letโs just say Iโm enjoying the quiet in the house. Iโve got a magazine article due in a few hours, followed by Cigar Club followed by lunch with my aunt, so itโs a full-but-in-a-good-way day over here.
Howโs your day? Iโm grateful for you reading this โย thanks for being here.

5 Quick Things โ๏ธ
1.ย ๐ย New episode of A Drink With a Friend!ย ๐ย In the last episode, Seth and I talked about what makes the art we love fall-ish. In this one we chat about the flip side of that coin: what makes the creating of that art fall-ish (thereโs writing and music-making, but thereโs also homemaking, neighborliness, and doing our work well as forms of artistic expression). What does it look like to do these things as the leaves drop?
2.ย โAll social media companies want teens to use their services. We are no different.โ Facebookโs demographic continues to skew older, and man if I donโt hate what social media does to our adolescents. More data to convince you itโs not a good idea for our kids.
3.ย Nodded my way through last weekโs Jesuitical episode with โthe popeโs astronomerโ about how people of faith should holistically approach current science. Plus, tons of hobbit references, so, win!
4.ย Oh my goodness, I love this so, so much.
5.ย And finally, โI work for a company that makes beer taste like pine needles that have been soaking in a vat of apple cider vinegar for thirty years.โ A typical Oregon Friday, as imagined by my east coast friends. (And imagined by Texans.)
Currently Reading, Watching, Listening ๐ง
My Fall Afternoons & Evenings playlist
Quotable ๐ฌ
โDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.โ
โ George Eliotย #
Heads Up! ๐
I dusted off and spit-shined my self-paced audio workshop, Create Your Rule of Life. Still the same timeless process, just updated a bit:
If youโve already enrolled, check your email inbox so you still have access without paying again โย the subject line is โCreate Your Rule of Life: An Update!โ. And if you havenโt yet given it a whirl, head here to check it out:
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Great advice in the thread here, if youโre curious! ๐
Question For You to Ponderโฆ ๐ค
What three specific things are you grateful for today?
Have a good weekend!
xo, Tsh
p.s.ย Remember to re-pot your cats.