Spring Break 2024

 

Spring Break 2024 was one for the books! We rented a RV for the week and cruised around Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. There's so much magic, majesty, and mystery in this part of the country. 

We managed to do quite a lot with two 7 year olds in tow. I think everyone's favorite day was renting e-bikes and biking through Zion National Park. We biked straight to a stable where we then rode horses along a beautiful trail beneath giant canyons. Truly epic!

We did have to cancel our plans for Bryce National Park due to snow, so that remains on our list of places and parks to check out. If camping and RV living taught us anything, it was how to be flexible and open to change!

Look forward to more adventures and exploring in years to come.

Saturday Hits

+ Overwhelmed? Stop what you're doing and listen to this. 

+ Bush school? Sign me up. 

+ This article has been making the rounds and for good reason. (Anything Jonathan Haidt writes, I read.)

+ On walking.

+ Waxahatchee's new album has been on repeat since yesterday. I especially love Crimes of the Heart!

+ Can't put this book down. 

Maira Kalman

 (c) Maira Kalman

Sunday Hits

 

(c) Sophie Blackall

+ Join or Die (trying to bring this film to Cville!)

+ GO OUTSIDE.

+ The Art of Centering.

+ Finally saw Oppenheimer (thanks to two 90 minute plane rides) and it really deserves all the accolades.

+ Fantastic podcast ep w. 2 of my favorite females.

+ So proud of RVA Cycling Corps for getting ALL kids on bikes!

+ Speaking of bikes. Great piece about aging and adventure. 

+ Song for your Sunday.

Nick Cave

Gosh, I absolutely loved these two quotes from Nick Cave. He's always so insightful. Read the whole piece here. 

He then offers his two pillars of a fulfilling life:

Sunday Hits

(c) Rachel Grant

+ On efficiency.

+ Expanding the role of friendships. Great listen!

+ Kacey's back! Maggie too!

+ Finding humor in life's absurdity (especially loved the segment on holding around 10:24)

+ Soulful Tiny Desk Concert.

+ Want this sticker! And this.

Theory of Fucks

 Give all your fucks to the living. Give a fuck about the people you work with, and the people who receive your work—the people who use the tools and products and systems or, more often than not, are used by them. Give a fuck about the land and the sea, all the living things that are used or used up by the work, that are abandoned or displaced by it, or—if we’re lucky, if we’re persistent and brave and willing—are cared for through the work. Give a fuck about yourself, about your own wild and tender spirit, about your peace and especially about your art. Give every last fuck you have to living things with beating hearts and breathing lungs and open eyes, with chloroplasts and mycelia and water-seeking roots, with wings and hands and leaves. Give like every fuck might be your last. – Mandy Brown

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