I bought a handful of satsumas from the grocery store, brought them home, and immediately forgot about them. The results are just too pretty not to share.
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This is week three for the series, on sundays we make lists, a project designed for fellow list lovers like myself. Get this week's list here:
This week's list is about happiness: what makes us happy...and what we can do to make others happy. As I wrote the list, I was shocked to see how much I hate housework show up...and just how grateful I am when someone else does it for me!
Here's my list (in no particular order):
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I hear you. And I'm listening. When readers sign up for my newsletter, the monthly notebook, I send a little welcome email. Inside, I ask them to tell me what their superpower is, and what they're working on at the moment. Not everyone replies to the email, of course, but the ones who do have a running theme: I'm stuck in this mental place and I don't know how to get out of it.
I answer as many emails as I can (sometimes it takes me a bit longer than usual), and I'm always thrilled at what wonderful people all of you are...there are professors and chefs and writers and artists and psychics and retirees and manicurists and an honest-to-goodness cowgirl among you. And everyone asks me the same thing: how did you get to be so brave? How do you put it all out there?
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