I used to be reminded of this little reality this week: to have neighbor, it’s important to be neighbor.
This week in Bellville, I made a Rooster Pot Pie for a brand new pal who’s going by means of one thing laborious—as a result of what else can I do when life feels overwhelming apart from 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 rooster, smashed potatoes with bacon, corn, and spinach. A full plate of kindness and a beneficiant wave and holler hi there from throughout the road. It was good (and so was the pot pie, I would add).
That is your reminder that the good factor, the considerate textual content, porch pie, or additional scoop of mashed potatoes? All of it comes again round. Don’t hesitate with it. Let’s simply be the nice neighbors this week with no 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 perhaps go rummaging by means of the craft closet only for funsies:
• Essentially 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—really pay attention—to at least one one other’s tales, even those which are laborious to inform, and more durable nonetheless to put in writing. That is the Holocaust Story I Stated I Wouldn’t Write. (The New York Occasions Present Article)
• I relate all to laborious to Millennial Interest Vitality. 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 developments and wow – perhaps 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 supplied 12 self-care rituals that truly 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 might use a hug or a Double Crust Rooster Pot Pie proper now. And I can inform you from expertise – in the event you’re going to make one rooster pot pie, you would possibly as effectively make two (which is precisely 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 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)
• Should you didn’t get the memo, take into account this it – We’re rising radishes. It’s quite simple and so they’re beautiful 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 perhaps 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 could be simply bizarre sufficient to cross muster. (Bon Appetit)
Have a beautiful day, pals! Get after this Sunday!
xo Pleasure
