🥏 Lil Treasures #94: Frisbee with Abe and the return of Broadway
Plus Harry and Meghan and some good words on empathy.
It’s Friday! We made it! A personal update: I am no longer homeless! We finally moved into our new home this past week and are in the process of trying to get settled and make it ours. It’s a sense of relief in many ways, but also overwhelming because there’s so much around me to unpack. LIKE HOW DO MY CHILDREN HAVE ALL THIS JUNK. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with it all, especially while living in the midst of difficult things like the anniversary of 9/11 this past week and hurricanes and COVID and I really don’t feel emotionally equipped to be honest.
Life doesn’t just stop because things are overwhelming, though. I’m sure there are those of you out there who have house-sized burdens you are carrying, too, they just manifest in different ways. We are in this together my friends, grieving what is difficult while simultaneously participating in the normalcy of taking our kids to soccer practice. Thank you guys for walking with me - and especially for your patience and support these last couple of months 💛
Alright, now on to some treasures!
🎭 Broadway is back after an 18 month hiatus, and theater is once again making the world glow! If you’re a theater nerd like myself, you might enjoy this Today show special and especially our beloved Glinda aka Kristen Chenoweth singing to Savannah Guthrie’s daughter at the end!
👘 This lady is speaking truth over us all. Manifest your hearts out my lovelies.
🤗 I came across this piece by David French on how we are currently living through an empathy crisis in our culture. It’s a convicting read, and helped give me the tools to re-shape the way I selectively empathize at times.
🌸 Shannon Evan’s book Rewilding Motherhood is finally out! I bought my copy with my own cash dollars and can’t wait to get started on it.
🙅🏻♀️ If you’re like me and everyday feels messy and very much like an uphill battle, let Sarah Bessey’s newsletter this week, titled “Keep Not Quitting” help give you the stamina to keep going.
😡 One thing I’ve picked up on lately is just how easy it is right now for me to arrive to the point of rage. The world is on fire, and it’s just really difficult to remember how to respond to things in a healthy pre-2020 way. My eyes have been opened to this recently through watching my two youngest kids. Not having a permanent home (we took turns living in various Airbnb’s and hotels for about a month) has thrown them off completely. When you’re a child and your brain is not fully-formed, you don’t know how to express that transitions are hard - you just have random outbursts of anger or run away in the Target parking lot. And even though I am an adult with a fully-formed brain, two years of chaotic pandemic living makes it so much easier to accelerate to point of rage over something dumb like when something is left out of my pickup order or they forget to put pickles on my sandwich. I think we are all a little on edge these days, and not sure how to deal with the constant despair and transition we are dealing with. Or maybe it’s just me. This article did a good job of unpacking this concept.
❤️ Harry and Meghan made it into Time100 list of most influential people in the world in 2021. I am just so proud of them! 😭
✉️ There is something so beautiful and personal about receiving a letter in the mail. There is thought and intentionality that goes into that process, especially now that texting and emailing is way more convenient. I think one of the best things we can do as humans it to let people know they are important to us, and sending a card in the mail is one way we practice this. Right now things are really hard. We desperately search to find small glimpses of joy. One of my favorite accounts to follow is emandfriends (they have some of the cutest cards) and right now they have a “Sisterhood Encouragement Card”. If you’re missing someone in your circle or just simply want to encourage them, mail them one of these cards and show them some love!
This week’s good tweets:
Have a great weekend, pals! Can’t wait to see you in the comments!
I was nodding away in agreement with the Brené Brown’s video on empathy. The last time I heard someone saying “at least…” to me, I felt like punching them in the nose. (Ok, so that wasn’t a gracious thought.)
❤️ your weekly newsletter Erin, my attitude gets adjusted EVERY time!