Howdy associates! How are issues in your world? I ended the varsity 12 months and completed the third semester of my MFA program, together with a essential thesis (I’ll hyperlink my 50 pages of ideas on utilizing speculative methods in nonfiction beneath, jkjk). It feels good to have a break and to settle into this sluggish, sultry time of 12 months. I’ve been organizing my home (a thrill to my Taurus self!), hanging out with my canine, studying, writing, and placing my physique into the pool as usually as attainable. I’ve additionally been engaged on preparing for subsequent college 12 months (one thing I genuinely take pleasure in) and watching an obscene quantity of Regulation and Order: Legal Intent (look, I’ve made it by means of all of SVU, and mama wants some silly TV to tide her over whereas she lesson plans). 

My spouse and I took a quick jaunt to hang around amongst some large bushes final week, and it was a real delight. I keep in mind how a lot I like to be in nature as soon as I’m there, and for the remainder of the summer season, I plan to prioritize a weekly hike, time by the river, or different nature journey. It’s such a great reset; dwelling in California, I really feel so fortunate to have so many selections about how I get to expertise the outside. We additionally booked a tenting journey to have a good time 5 years of marriage (you possibly can examine our first tenting journey collectively right here, in my first put up for JTB!), which I’m trying ahead to. Regardless of my declaration that I’m largely an indoor child, I’m studying that you could educate an previous canine (me) new tips. 

I hope you’re doing no matter feels good throughout this slower-paced season. 

• I’m mildly obsessive about Leslie Stephens’ Morning Individual Substack proper now, and I beloved this version about utilizing this summer season as a solo reset with climbing and solo tenting. I’m additionally extremely excited to learn Leslie’s debut novel, You’re Secure Right here, which comes out this week! Preorder it right here! (Substack, Bookshop)

• Final week, on June nineteenth, we celebrated Juneteenth. If you happen to, like me, weren’t fairly certain what that’s and why the day is necessary, I recommend studying in regards to the historical past right here to study in regards to the historical past of Juneteenth and its significance to the Black neighborhood.  (Nationwide Musem of African American Historical past and Tradition by way of The Smithsonian)

• ‘Tis the season for THE CAKE OF SUMMER: Lemon Blueberry Gooey Butter Cake. It’s price heating the oven for, I promise. A slice with iced espresso within the morning? Completely. At night time after a day outside? it. (Pleasure The Baker)

• Cease losing your fridge house. Did Salmonella write this? (The Atlantic)

• Emma Copley Eisenberg’s e book Housemates got here out lately, and it’s OUTSTANDING, and her article about how “proper” and “fallacious” methods to be queer are altering fiction was a fantastic learn. (Bookshop, Esquire)

• I remorse what’s in my digital camera roll. I relate to this, and I miss the times when Instagram was simply foolish photographs of me and my associates or sepia-toned photographs of no matter was occurring as a substitute of completely posed photos. (Substack)

• I made you a little bit graphic about my favourite slump-busting summer season reads and another stuff, too. (Substack)

• How have you learnt if you need youngsters? This subject is such a nuanced, troublesome dialog, and this piece does a lovely job of grappling with all of it. (The Good Commerce)

• The perfect summer season salads! (Bon Appetit)

• Individuals who made associates as an grownup share how they did it. (Self)

• One factor about me is that for those who come over to swim in my pool, you’ll have quite a lot of frozen treats that I count on you to pluck from my chest freezer at will. It’s summer season, you higher HELP YOURSELF. Just a few of the issues I’m stocking this 12 months: Saltine Cracker Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches, Roasted Strawberry and Toasted Coconut Popsicles, and Chocolate-Dipped Frozen Bananas. (Pleasure The Baker)

• As at all times, discussions about supporting small companies are layered, and this piece about how Costco will cease promoting books year-round was a fantastic learn. (Substack)

• How Q grew to become every little thing. I needed to sit down after studying this. (Mom Jones)

• give (and obtain, ugh) criticism nicely. It’s positive; typing that phrase didn’t make me cry. (The Atlantic)

• 15 Lifechanging Books To Learn and Re-Learn. What books would make your record? I’d add Cheryl Strayed’s Tiny Lovely Issues (my all-time favourite e book to provide folks I really like) and Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff. (The Stripe, Bookshop).

• I discover all the memes asking if somebody’s going to match their freak HILARIOUS. If you happen to additionally need to Google the memes the youths focus on, you will discover an explainer right here and take heed to the Tinashe music that began all of it, “Nasty,” right here. If you happen to’re delicate to spicy lyrics, skip this one, okay? Additionally, for followers of “Hacks,” Hannah Einbinder stories that she and Jean Sensible “match one another’s freak” by “doing a Monopoly deal and going to Maggiano’s.” Completely, sure, please. (Mashable, Spotify, Right this moment)

• Gen Z is correct about our want for sleep. (Quick Firm)

• My good friend Becca is presently purchasing for Artwork Trainer Necklaces, and I want to start out, too. I’m very into this one and this one. They match my vibe (or shall I say, “match my freak”?). (Substack, Etsy). 

• Why being a perfectionist is dangerous in your well being. (Self)

• I beloved studying about the day by day habits of happiness specialists. (Time)