5 Quick Things #253 🍅

tomatoes, spaghetti, gratitude, & garbage

Hey there,

I’m writing this fairly late Thursday night from a hotel room in Dallas and I’ve got to get up bright and early tomorrow morning for the Catholic Imagination Conference, so let’s get right to it, shall we?

Small Crowd, by Karen Lynn (2018) #

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5 Quick Things ☕️

1. 1. 📻 New episode of ADWAF: Why I Left Instagram 📻 Seth asks me about my decision to leave Instagram and why I have zero regrets. Truly!

2.  I love this surprising delight of reading 500 words of garbage every morning. I’ve written so much more this year because of meeting with fellow writer friends via Zoom several times a week, and releasing myself from the pressure to write perfection means showing up and being willing to write …well, garbage.

3. Making homemade vanilla extract is on my to-do list, especially since it’s gotten so expensive at the store.

4. "A friend once quipped that growing tomatoes is 'the best way to devote three months of your life to saving $2.17.' ...Work is where the real person resides. The true nature of a man is revealed when he is swinging a hammer, felling a tree, or negotiating a contract. For good or ill, we speak loudest to those around us when we are at work." Good food for thought.

5. And finally, I’m such a big believer in gratitude journaling, and this take was a delight.

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Currently Reading, Watching, Listening 📚

• Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin

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Quotable 💬

“We meet no ordinary people in our lives.”

— C.S. Lewis #

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Is Cereal a Soup? 🍜

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Question(s) For You to Ponder… 🤔

What that you currently care about do you think you’ll still care about a year from now?

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Have a good weekend,

Tsh

p.s. Spaghetti appointment — I can’t not think of reservations like this anymore.

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