Who doesn't enjoy reading their friends' end-of-the-month posts? Perhaps taking a peek at what's saving their lives in the current season? Or skimming through what a kindred spirit is loving, hearing, learning, and paging through?
Sifting through life's oft' random loose ends can be just plain fun. Sometimes thought-provoking, informative, or touching. That's what you've told me time and again.
Here's the bits and pieces of late January, what's giving me cause for pause and saving my life in the deep mid-winter by the sea ...
#1. Something Loved
- the final two Christmas cookies, fished out of the freezer and finished off one mid-January lunchtime
- grabbing a lovely bunch of lilac-hued tulips from Trader Joe's, still closed snug, touched with dew ... a fabulous steal at $4.99
- big girls love stickers, too ... like these bird ones right here and these iconic masterpieces, too ... talk about stress relief
#2. Something Said
- a curious granddaughter asks, 'Did you ride in covered wagons when you were a little girl?'
- a young pastor reminds his church family that 'God is King and you are not' ... and it recalibrates your controlling tendencies into a series of responses to life's challenges that are a whole lot healthier than they were before
- Brene's brilliant little video on the difference between empathy and sympathy ...
#3. Something Learned
- if you pray that God will surprise you, be sure that He will ... I promise
- a blustery, frigid weekend is the ideal time to hunker down under a pile of quilts and polish off a riveting first season of The Crown on DVD
- turning off your phone right after dinner helps you get to sleep a whole lot quicker when bedtime rolls around
#4. Something Read
Rachel Macy Stafford
Cheryl Smith
Beverly Garside
KJ Dell'Antonia
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