I used to be reminded of this little fact this week: to have a very good neighbor, it’s a must to be a very good neighbor.

This week in Bellville, I made a Hen Pot Pie for a brand new good friend who’s going by means of one thing onerous—as a result of what else can I do when life feels overwhelming in addition to wrap it in pie crust? (Rhetorical)

Simply as I used to be standing at my kitchen counter, flour in my hair – I may really feel it, crimping the crust questioning what I was going to eat for dinner… my neighbor texted. He’d made an excessive amount of supper, and left a pot on my porch. I hustled on the market barefoot prefer it was Christmas morning and located: half a roasted hen, smashed potatoes with bacon, corn, and spinach. A full plate of kindness and a beneficiant wave and holler howdy from throughout the road.  It was good (and so was the pot pie, I would add).

That is your reminder that the great factor, the considerate textual content, porch pie, or additional scoop of mashed potatoes? All of it comes again round. Don’t hesitate with it. Let’s simply be the nice neighbors this week with out a bunch of pomp and circumstance and see the way it all shakes out.

The providing this week is beneath.  An image of Graham shaking paw is above. Take excellent care and perhaps go rummaging by means of the craft closet only for funsies:

•  Essentially the most highly effective lengthy learn of the week. This story stayed with me. It’s a private, detailed account of survival and silence, and a reminder of how necessary it’s that we hear—really hear—to at least one one other’s tales, even those which might be onerous to inform, and more durable nonetheless to write down.  That is the Holocaust Story I Stated I Wouldn’t Write. (The New York Instances Present Article)

•  I relate all to onerous to Millennial Passion Vitality. Exhibit A: my total profession. Exhibit B: my craft closet. Exhibit C: the storage bakery I’m beginning at the moment in my thoughts’s eye and shortly to be in my precise storage.  Is that this you too? (Substack)

•  I’ve by no means been very eager on utilizing my very BODY to maintain up with ladies’s magnificence tendencies and wow – perhaps that’s what’s about to be fashionable? Untouched Faces Are Having a Second on TikTok – However Will They Final? Gen Z is making a case for being “a lil ugly” which is strictly the case I’ve been making since my awkward teen years so – nice! Right here we’re! (Cosmopolitan)

•  Let’s spend a while with April’s micromoon this weekend.  (TIME)

•  Emily Schuman supplied 12 self-care rituals that truly made a distinction and I can very a lot co-sign turning down your bed room a couple of hours earlier than bedtime. It’s  flip down service, lavender spray. (Substack)

•  Everyone knows somebody who may use a hug or a Double Crust Hen Pot Pie proper now. And I can inform you from expertise – when you’re going to make one hen pot pie, you would possibly as nicely make two (which is strictly why I’ve a pot pie in my fridge proper now). I’m not at all times nice with giving hugs, however I’m nice with giving pies. (Pleasure the Baker)

•  I’m, certifiably, this nosy so this new podcast about OPM (Different Individuals’s Cash) is admittedly compelling to me.  What We Spend Podcast (TikTok, Apple)

•  Are you a moist hair sleeper? Listed here are some issues to contemplate (like… a moldy pillow!?) (Self)

•  I’m satisfied that HOAs exist to make us petty collectively. (TikTok)

•  For those who didn’t get the memo, contemplate this it – We’re rising radishes. It’s quite simple they usually’re beautiful vessels for salted butter this spring and summer time. (Hudson Valley Seed, YouTube)

•  We’re invited to a Good Friday Crawfish Boil subsequent week and there’s few issues I like greater than a Lenten fish gathering! The host and hostess are Meals People® and I’m brainstorming bringing them a crusty loaf of bread and a vegetable bouquet as a number reward. I’m notoriously horrible at flower arranging however perhaps if it’s meals, I’ll be higher outfitted? (Pleasure the Baker, Gardens Illustrated)

•  It’s by no means not Enjoyable Little Drink season. I really feel like I want to achieve past the hibiscus lemonade I’ve been making practically each week and this Beet Sumac Soda is likely to be simply bizarre sufficient to go muster. (Bon Appetit)

Have a beautiful day, mates! Get after this Sunday!

xo Pleasure