Review: Chef’s Kiss

Chef's Kiss
Chef’s Kiss by T.J. Alexander
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Love love loved the characters in this story. Loved the diversity of their backgrounds and how it was handled. Loved the story. Loved all the food and all the fun. Enjoyable, light read.

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Review: I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working

I Guess I Haven't Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working
I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working by Shauna Niequist
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 stars.

I enjoyed this essay collection and loved the parts where I felt the author went deep into what it means to start over and give oneself grace and space. In some ways, I felt like maybe she hadn’t spent enough time in this new life yet to really dig deep enough to pull out all of her learnings/lessons. Like it was still all a bit too new. So it still felt a bit more on the surface than I would have liked. Still enjoyed them.

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Daily Joys – 160

Daily Joys – 160

 

Last day. Grateful.

Daily Joys – 159

 

Daily Joys – 159

 

Tired. And just off today. Lunch with a friend and then met another friend. But really just tired.

Daily Joys – 158

Daily Joys – 158

 

Grateful for book friends. And my husband. So grateful.

Daily Joys – 157

Daily Joys – 157

 

Lunch with my love, therapy and a restful day. Grateful.

Daily Joys – 156

 

Daily Joys – 156

 

So much joy reminiscing. Enjoying the quiet and the stillness.

Daily Joys – 155

 

Daily Joys – 155

 

Still loving watercolors, so grateful and still loving the quiet.

Daily Joys – 154

 

Daily Joys – 154

 

Really loving the painting still. Feeling off but not sure why.

Daily Joys – 153

Daily Joys – 153

 

So grateful for painting. In so much jaw pain. A quiet day of reading and painting.

Daily Joys – 152

Daily Joys – 152

 

Grateful to paint today. Grateful for coffee and salad with a friend. Grateful for the small joys.

Choosing Joy – June

Still enjoying the monthly cadence.

This months intention is:  Practice Joy: Breathe in the fresh air. Summer is here. Smell the water. Go outside. Sit in the sunshine. One more school year is over. Celebrate your life. 

I have all of June off so this is a perfect prompt for June. Practicing Joy and presence and sitting in the sunshine is all I want to do this month.

Here are some goals for June:

  • continue to draw, sketch, paint or do some artistic endeavor as often as I can
  • try to eat a salad every day now that there’s so much fresh food
  • do most of of HCOTF
  • support the kids with all of the end of year activities
  • Read a lot
  • Support J
  • take another class
  • continue medication
  • help D and N with their summer journeys
  • journal
  • Continue documenting the joy
  • Love my people
  • Scrap and OLW
  • Go outdoors, sit outside, be in the sunshine
  • dive deeper into ease, release, equanimity, space, possibility and see what you might want to do for each. ( still haven’t done this )
  • maybe figure out linode stuff for email.
  • work on a daily practice of giving yourself grace
  • Be ok with not getting much done, rest.
  • be in the present moment, don’t count down the days

This is my list for now.

June, I got this. Let’s do this. Let it be full of joy.