Things I'm Loving (v.13)

Electric cement, pickled radishes and fun dancing... at any age!

This is a really full one, folks, so buckle up.

I'm experimenting with length, based on whatever else is happening in that season of my life.

June is a full month for my family. Loads of birthdays. Nearly every day of the month(!).

Hope y’all enjoy what I've gathered.

Something I'm loving

This video is giving me so much joy these days. The oddness of it (which echoes the original video/song), the diversity of folks involved, the storytelling they're doing through dance.

Something to read

This article from Science pairs nicely with the one I shared a few issues back around how we build our houses (and could build them to better at cooling, heating, etc).

It discusses recent findings around how to store electricity in cement— which could allow houses, roadways, and more, to store and electricity (like a solar panel) so that cars, homes, etc, can draw power from the "battery."

Such a cool idea.

Something to listen to

I don't remember where or how I found this audio, but it's a short recording of a woman named Belle Stewart, sharing with some researchers about working with doctors before the NHS.

She and her family were travelers, but they mostly stayed in one village. It's a fascinating listen.

Something to help you create

Okay. If you've seen any of my recent TILs, you've seen that I've been doing gardening work!

Here's one of the sites where I found some inspiration. I haven't made the projects, but my favorites (and ones I've set aside to make) are:

The Hose Holder with Pallet Wood

Image via DIY Candy

and the Inlay Garden Markers

Image via Houseful of Handmade

Do any of the projects scream your name?

Something to watch

I think by the time this issue goes live, this trend will be over, BUT, I wanted to share it with y’all.

Not because of the dancing, but because of the joy/shift that happens with the "parents” when they start to dance.

You can see them go back in time 40 years, in their eyes, in their smiles. They're so present and enjoying themselves. I love it.

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Something to help you slow down

Although I don't consider myself a vegan or vegetarian, I've really fallen in love with this website, where the author shares (mostly) Vietnamese recipes that she grew up with (and has tweaked for vegetarian/vegan use).

I found this recipe to pickle radish greens during the spring, and haven't tried it yet, but I'm super excited to give it a go when my radish greens are ready in a couple weeks.

I learned how to (very simply) make pickled radishes several years ago, which makes me think I'll love this recipe too.

Making pickled foods always helps me slow down, if for no other reason than that I have to wait for the food to pickle. 😂

Wildcard - Something I'm mulling over:

I've had this essay saved for a couple years, according to my Notion library.

The questions that Beth shares are thought-provoking and useful ones to sit with.

It gets even juicier when she starts to play with the idea of a business as a garden.

This is my favorite section from those:

a garden has energetic cycles

…from planting seeds in spring and nourishing them through to high summer’s abundance and early autumn’s harvest, to the fading light and slow decay of autumn and winter, and the quiet, dead-looking time of the cold, dark months, when next year’s new life is being incubated, there is a steady, ever-repeating rhythm in a garden. there are times when the most important job is tidying and cleaning, times when it’s feeding, times when it feels impossible to keep on top of all the new growth and ensure everything has space. the work shifts with the seasons. (and don’t forget there are the other plants, the ones that don’t follow the mainstream rhythm, the winter flowering jasmine, the snowdrops, the kale and chard we harvest at midwinter.)

there is no ‘dead’ season, but shifts of energy, outwards and inwards. i want my business to feel this way, for projects to move in cycles, for inward, regenerative time to be as valued as outward, manifestation time

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That's all for today!

What all are you finding and loving? Let me know in the comments.

~M