Feel free to sing along to this tune. I don’t care that it’s not really a Christmas carol. And thank you LORD for another year.
New York Times food app and Kristen Scott Thomas
Books by Cole Riley and streaming Brit dramas.
Traveling to places with beautiful scenes
These are a few of my favorite things.
(insert waltz music here)
Driving Amalfi and podcasts with women
Barbie and Ken and some sweet tea with lemon
Crunkleton tastings and babies who sing
These are a few of my favorite things.
When the dog barks, when the church frets, when I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things and then I don’t feel so bad.
Also among my favorites in 2023: happy progeny settled in their for-now homes, organizations and people who invest in other organizations and people, Pink Turtle cookies, Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, Katie Porter, The Walled-Off Hotel, Crema Di Caffè, Fun Guy empanadas, the Dutch guy in Season 3 of Ted Lasso, our electric composter, homemade focaccia, Villa Rufolo, Fred’s birthday camel ride, the ordination of RME, the people who married my children, and The Word Made Flesh.
And in 2024 I look forward to the release of Evan Gershkovich (and all those imprisoned unjustly but his imprisonment is personal.) May God bless you and all in the New Year.
A Church for Starving Artists 