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Grat Chat: August 2026 🍊
...end the month with gratitude
I just discovered it’s been a while since we’ve done a gratitude chat, and I can’t think of a better way to end August—and therefore, summer mode (at least around here) than by remembering good things. It’s...
5 Quick Things #423 📖
Just in time for school, I feel like my reading slump finally dissipated and I spent a good chunk of the second half of this summer with my nose in a book. …And it was delightful! I’m still finishing up my latest read, but I should finish u...
49 Things I’m Grateful For 🎈
Party in the tavern garden (1930), by Max Pietschmann #
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That I have lived four—almost five—decades, a privilege not given to everyone. Getting older is a blessing.
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That I’m still in my forties for one more year... I’m going to s...
5 Quick Things #422 👋
This summer there have been a fair number of super-short 5QTs due to real-life circumstances, and this one is no different—as you’re reading this, I’m on the road with our middle guy, taking him to his first semester of college. Everyone sa...
Do the Boring, Ordinary, Right-There Things
Open Window. Ligachevo (1947), by Konstantin Yuon #
I love me a good old-fashioned deep think. Sometime around this time of year, I do what I can to hole away for a few hours somewhere (sometimes overnight at a guesthouse; more often a few...
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