Things I'm Loving (v.24)
Postcards across the world, Broadway tunes with friends, an online summit for messy real life businesses & laugh-crying through fun memes.
The days are long but the years are short, and boy am I feeling that this past month.
How about y’all?
Something to bring you (and others) joy
Many years ago — 2009? 2010? I discovered Postcrossing and immediately dove headfirst into sending postcards.
Why? Well, as a kid I’d collected stamps, and who didn’t love mail. Postcrossing seemed like the perfect way to combine the two + my love of travel and learning about different cultures and peoples.
At some point (maybe 2016? 2017?) I stopped sending or receiving postcards — I forgot about Postcrossing, kinda like Jackie Paper seemed to forget Puff the Magic Dragon. But then a few weeks ago, a FB friend (Shari) shared about her discovery of Postcrossing and it reminded me all over again of how much I loved it.
The timing seems right to share it with y’all, for with all the fearmongering and othering that’s happening (and despots talking about annexing other countries), connecting with people around the world seems more important than ever.
Something to listen to
Back in 2006, I worked for a hot minute at a local church as a youth minister/pastor. Although there’s lots of awful that happened during that time, one good thing that remains is the multiple friendships that are still a part of my life.
My friend Megan and I were recently saying how can it be that we’ve been friends for nearly 20 years — I read at her wedding, threw her baby shower, and now that baby is going to be attending high school in the fall (what?!).
Back in the early days of the pandemic, Megan and I started to watch TV shows over Zoom every Wednesday night and continued for maybe 3 years before life got back in the way.
Recently I was texting Megan and bemoaning how we hadn’t seen each other in a long time (and boy did I miss the days of watching weekly tv with her, but it didn’t seem like the season for it now). She asked if I’d heard this song before and when I said no, shared the video with me.
I love how there’s conflict in the song among the friends, but also a familiarity and an ability to agree + disagree.
Idk about you, but I for one, am doubling down on nourishing and tending to the connections and relationships in my life.
They keep me standing… and vice versa.
Something to help you slow down (if you run a business)
On Monday March 24th, my talk for the Mess of Success Summit (affiliate link!) will go live!
The summit, hosted by Ruth Poundwhite, is having honest behind-the-scenes convos about what it’s like to navigate business with different types of challenges.
In my presentation, I talk about my experience as someone who lives with depression and chronic pain + a neurodivergentesque brain. I also share some tips about what I’ve found that helps me run my business alongside depression + back pain.
The summit is free to attend— and has some upgrade options for lifetime access to recordings.
Wildcard- something that made me laugh-cry
Y’all have to go look through this entire slide.
The one that had me in tears though, was the astrological signs as cats and dogs.
It’s another short + sweet one for y’all this week.
My nieces have been here (and they’re my other TIL, if I’m being honest w/y’all 😉) and leave in a couple days, so I wanna spend as much time as possible with them til then.
~M