I used to be reminded of this little fact this week: to have neighbor, you need to be neighbor.
This week in Bellville, I made a Hen Pot Pie for a brand new good friend who’s going by means of one thing laborious—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 might 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 howdy from throughout the road. It was good (and so was the pot pie, I’d add).
That is your reminder that the good 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 great neighbors this week with out a bunch of pomp and circumstance and see the way it all shakes out.
The providing this week is beneath. An image of Graham shaking paw is above. Take excellent care and possibly go rummaging by means of 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 essential it’s that we pay attention—actually pay attention—to 1 one other’s tales, even those which are laborious to inform, and tougher nonetheless to jot down. That is the Holocaust Story I Stated I Wouldn’t Write. (The New York Instances Present Article)
• I relate all to laborious to Millennial Passion Vitality. Exhibit A: my complete profession. Exhibit B: my craft closet. Exhibit C: the storage bakery I’m beginning at present 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 ladies’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 precisely 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 provided 12 self-care rituals that really made a distinction and I can very a lot co-sign turning down your bed room a number of hours earlier than bedtime. It’s flip down service, lavender spray. (Substack)
• Everyone knows somebody who might use a hug or a Double Crust Hen Pot Pie proper now. And I can let you know from expertise – should you’re going to make one hen pot pie, you would possibly as properly make two (which is precisely why I’ve a pot pie in my fridge proper now). I’m not all the time 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 Individuals’s Cash) is de facto compelling to me. What We Spend Podcast (TikTok, Apple)
• Are you a moist hair sleeper? Listed here are some issues to contemplate (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, think about this it – We’re rising radishes. It’s quite simple and so they’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 present. I’m notoriously horrible at flower arranging however possibly if it’s meals, I’ll be higher outfitted? (Pleasure the Baker, Gardens Illustrated)
• It’s by no means not Enjoyable Little Drink season. I really feel like I would like to achieve past the hibiscus lemonade I’ve been making practically each week and this Beet Sumac Soda could be simply bizarre sufficient to move muster. (Bon Appetit)
Have a beautiful day, pals! Get after this Sunday!
xo Pleasure
