šLil Treasures #125: Quick Spirals and a Baby Goat
We're talking bird flu and the new Lil Swipes Lending Library!
Hi, itās Friday! We made it to Lil Treasures for the week! Iāve been in Greensboro the last couple of days for The Lazy Genius Kitchen book launch and have not consumed much content this week, so Iām counting on you to come through with some bomb treasures in the comments.
Also just wanted to inform you that apparently it is May, which means summer is furiously sprinting its way towards us! The Moon family calendar is jam-packed full of camps and trips and many stops at the pool, all the while making room in case I need a quick spiral every now and again.
Iād love to hear whatās on your summer calendars as we begin the countdown to summer. Planning/planting your gardens? Dreaming of your upcoming vacations? Perfecting your cocktail recipes? I want to know it all!
Letās get to the Treasures!
š» The delightful KJ Ramseyās new book The Lord is My Courage: Stepping Through the Shadows of Fear Toward the Voice of Love is now available for pre-order! KJ is a brilliant writer and a fantastic internet follow, and I truly loved reading her first book, This Too Shall Last. Her new book officially releases on June 21, but you can go reserve your copy now!
šSomeone DMād me this video of children running and I am still laughing about it.
šļø BrenĆ© Brown just did a two-part series with Father Richard Rohr called āSpirituality, Certitude and Infinite Love.ā It was such a helpful conversation and I highly recommend it if youāre looking for a good listen for this week!
š Want to snuggle up with a good book on your summer vacay? Introducing the Lil' Swipes Lending Library, a place where weāre going to host a good old fashioned book swap a la the internet. Send and receive your favorite books with some Lil Swipe pals and only pay for shipping!
š„ Friends, it is time for the summer of salads. Are salads healthy? Sure, it seems that way with all the lettuces and things. But thereās nothing like the coldness and crunch of a salad that just hits right when thereās 80% humidity. HBH just posted this sweet potato kale salad with creamy honey mustard dressing and Iām happily adding it to my summer salad docket.
š¦ Just got PTSD thinking about untangling my hair from these clips in high school.
š Weāre bringing back the We Got You Club this week! This spreadsheet is a tangible way to rally around each other to meet needs - whether that be by providing resources or cash dollars. Everything pre-2022 has been archived to make room for the most recent needs, and it is always open to new additions if you or someone you know is going through a rough patch.
Here are this weekās Tweets:
Starting strong with this energy!
Okay besties, have a lovely weekend! Canāt wait to read all your treasures in the comments. Yāall are the freaking best.
I was wondering how many others here have a Substack themselves? Erin does some great writing, but I love seeing others too. (I write a stack called Caitlin Chats.)
My lilacs are finally blooming this week so very, very slowly. And there are flowers with teeny tiny baby strawberries on some of the strawberry plants. That tells my heart and head that it really is spring...in spite of the fact that it's been mostly in the 50s and rainy and gray.
I'm excited about the prospect of a lending library. I finally live in a place with a room big enough to be a personal library and I've almost finished cataloging all of my books. It's been a dream of mine all of my life to have a designated library in my home and now it's here. <sigh>
The greenhouse is full of veggie starts. A lot of my summer will be dedicated to tending of the garden. Late summer and early fall will be canning and preserving. Last year, we canned 35 quarts of tomato sauce. This summer it will be peaches, nectarines, and applesauce.
My yearly mammogram is coming up at the end of this month, so I'm holding my breath and praying that the cancer hasn't come back. It shouldn't, but my anxiety isn't listening to me, and there's always that small percentage of possibility that's there no matter what.
Randomly, has anyone else read The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera? It's about a girl, Petra Pena, who boards a spaceship with her family and a bunch of other scientists to flee Earth headed for another planet. But there's a seriously crazy twist that happens onboard the ship and some other people take over and wipe everyone's memories, so they can settle the new planet the way they want. But Petra's memory doesn't get wiped.