Hi Darling Ones,

How’re your hearts and brains holding up while we continue to live through these cruel unprecedented times?

Mine’s okay, mostly because I was able to sleep a bunch last night and I’m doing a pretty good job of staying out of the doom spiral.

Since I’m in a decent mood, I thought I’d share some anti-bummers with you.

1. There’s Mrs. Meyer’s lilac-scented soap in the downstairs bathroom and dandelion-scented soap in the kitchen and so whenever I wash my hands it smells like spring or summer in here.
2. Sister #4 gave me the bitchen Sony cans her new job sent her and they’re fancy. So fancy, I can skip or rewind by swiping on the ear cup.
3. Whenever the current events get too heavy I’ve decided to put down the screens and go make something.
4. Currently, there is cheddar jalapeño no-knead bread resting in my kitchen.
5. Related to the last: I had an apple and sharp cheddar for lunch.
6. I’m in love with Neko Case’s memoir The Harder I Fight the More I Love You. It is beautiful and painful and the writing will stab you right in the heart in the best way.
7. Because I don’t want the book to go by too fast I’m spending part of each day listening to Case’s discography in chronological order. I just reached “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.”
8. That reminds me, I had to turn off the “pause when talking” feature of the cans because it thinks talking and singing are the same thing.

That’s what I got right now, which is a lot considering we’re in the midst of a coup by the dumbest people on earth.

Love,
Jodi