I used to be reminded of this little reality this week: to have neighbor, you must be neighbor.
This week in Bellville, I made a Hen Pot Pie for a brand new good friend who’s going by one thing exhausting—as a result of what else can I do when life feels overwhelming in addition to wrap it in pie crust? (Rhetorical)
Simply as I used to be standing at my kitchen counter, flour in my hair – I may really feel it, crimping the crust questioning what I was going to eat for dinner… my neighbor texted. He’d made an excessive amount of supper, and left a pot on my porch. I hustled on the market barefoot prefer it was Christmas morning and located: half a roasted hen, smashed potatoes with bacon, corn, and spinach. A full plate of kindness and a beneficiant wave and holler good day from throughout the road. It was excellent (and so was the pot pie, I’d add).
That is your reminder that the great factor, the considerate textual content, porch pie, or further scoop of mashed potatoes? All of it comes again round. Don’t hesitate with it. Let’s simply be the nice neighbors this week and not using a bunch of pomp and circumstance and see the way it all shakes out.
The providing this week is under. An image of Graham shaking paw is above. Take excellent care and possibly go rummaging by the craft closet only for funsies:
• Probably the most highly effective lengthy learn of the week. This story stayed with me. It’s a private, detailed account of survival and silence, and a reminder of how vital it’s that we pay attention—actually pay attention—to at least one one other’s tales, even those which can be exhausting to inform, and tougher nonetheless to jot down. That is the Holocaust Story I Stated I Wouldn’t Write. (The New York Occasions Reward Article)
• I relate all to exhausting to Millennial Passion Power. Exhibit A: my total profession. Exhibit B: my craft closet. Exhibit C: the storage bakery I’m beginning presently in my thoughts’s eye and shortly to be in my precise storage. Is that this you too? (Substack)
• I’ve by no means been very eager on utilizing my very BODY to maintain up with girls’s magnificence traits and wow – possibly that’s what’s about to be fashionable? Untouched Faces Are Having a Second on TikTok – However Will They Final? Gen Z is making a case for being “a lil ugly” which is strictly the case I’ve been making since my awkward teen years so – nice! Right here we’re! (Cosmopolitan)
• Let’s spend a while with April’s micromoon this weekend. (TIME)
• Emily Schuman supplied 12 self-care rituals that really made a distinction and I can very a lot co-sign turning down your bed room just a few hours earlier than bedtime. It’s flip down service, lavender spray. (Substack)
• Everyone knows somebody who may use a hug or a Double Crust Hen Pot Pie proper now. And I can let you know from expertise – in case you’re going to make one hen pot pie, you may as properly make two (which is strictly why I’ve a pot pie in my fridge proper now). I’m not at all times nice with giving hugs, however I’m nice with giving pies. (Pleasure the Baker)
• I’m, certifiably, this nosy so this new podcast about OPM (Different Folks’s Cash) is basically compelling to me. What We Spend Podcast (TikTok, Apple)
• Are you a moist hair sleeper? Listed here are some issues to think about (like… a moldy pillow!?) (Self)
• I’m satisfied that HOAs exist to make us petty collectively. (TikTok)
• In the event you didn’t get the memo, contemplate this it – We’re rising radishes. It’s quite simple they usually’re pretty vessels for salted butter this spring and summer time. (Hudson Valley Seed, YouTube)
• We’re invited to a Good Friday Crawfish Boil subsequent week and there’s few issues I really like greater than a Lenten fish gathering! The host and hostess are Meals Of us® and I’m brainstorming bringing them a crusty loaf of bread and a vegetable bouquet as a bunch reward. I’m notoriously horrible at flower arranging however possibly if it’s meals, I’ll be higher geared up? (Pleasure the Baker, Gardens Illustrated)
• It’s by no means not Enjoyable Little Drink season. I really feel like I want to succeed in past the hibiscus lemonade I’ve been making almost each week and this Beet Sumac Soda is likely to be simply bizarre sufficient to move muster. (Bon Appetit)
Have a beautiful day, buddies! Get after this Sunday!
xo Pleasure
