Rhia's Kitchen : Feel Good Friday: Back, but not back to normal.

A weekly newsletter sharing instances of hope, humor, and humanity.

You may have noticed you didn't get a Feel Good Friday newsletter in your inbox the last two weeks. This is why. We're picking this newsletter back up not today not because things are back to normal. They're not. In fact, if the events of the last two weeks have taught us anything, "normal" is not a state we should ever return to. We're picking this newsletter back up for the same reason we started it: to share a few cheering or compelling things we've read about this week. Some will be directly related to the events of our time; others will be random creative or joyful projects, notes, or pursuits picked up somewhere in the huge tent that is the internet. Our hope is every link is something worth knowing about and worth spending time with, however grave and immediate, however fun and fleeting. Have anything you'd like to share? Email me at cambria [at] simplyrecipes [dot] com with the title "Feel Good Friday." Thanks for being a part of our community! What I Liked This Week:

Emma and I both just subscribed to Whetstone Magazine, a seasonal print journal on global food culture and origins, and the only black-owned food print publication in the US. Very eager for the first issue!
This was wonderful to see.
Must-listen conversation between Brene Brown, researcher/author who studies empathy and vulnerability, and Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
My husband and kids just made a big batch of this Argentinean chimichurri with the parsley from our garden. So good.
Printmaking with vegetables.
Turn your typing into jazz. This was very fun.
A fantastic list of 135 podcasts to enrich your mind.
Have time on your hands? How about designing your own "trick shot" Rube Goldberg machine like this YouTuber?
Correction! A couple weeks I meant to send you to a video of great British gardener Monty Don walking through his garden en route to feed the chickens, but I accidentally put in the wrong link. So sorry about that! Unfortunately the original video is no longer available, but Monty's Instagram account and his website give a pretty good sense of his amazing garden.
And finally, good advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson (from one of his journals): "Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows." (Thanks to Austin Kleon for this.)

Wishing you a healthy, hopeful weekend. -Cambria Product and Lifestyle Director

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Feel Good Friday: Back, but not back to normal.

A weekly newsletter sharing instances of hope, humor, and humanity.

You may have noticed you didn’t get a Feel Good Friday newsletter in your inbox the last two weeks. This is why.

We’re picking this newsletter back up not today not because things are back to normal. They’re not. In fact, if the events of the last two weeks have taught us anything, “normal” is not a state we should ever return to.

We’re picking this newsletter back up for the same reason we started it: to share a few cheering or compelling things we’ve read about this week. Some will be directly related to the events of our time; others will be random creative or joyful projects, notes, or pursuits picked up somewhere in the huge tent that is the internet. Our hope is every link is something worth knowing about and worth spending time with, however grave and immediate, however fun and fleeting.

Have anything you’d like to share? Email me at cambria [at] simplyrecipes [dot] com with the title “Feel Good Friday.” Thanks for being a part of our community!

What I Liked This Week:

Emma and I both just subscribed to Whetstone Magazine, a seasonal print journal on global food culture and origins, and the only black-owned food print publication in the US. Very eager for the first issue!
This was wonderful to see.
Must-listen conversation between Brene Brown, researcher/author who studies empathy and vulnerability, and Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist and the Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
My husband and kids just made a big batch of this Argentinean chimichurri with the parsley from our garden. So good.
Printmaking with vegetables.
Turn your typing into jazz. This was very fun.
A fantastic list of 135 podcasts to enrich your mind.
Have time on your hands? How about designing your own “trick shot” Rube Goldberg machine like this YouTuber?
Correction! A couple weeks I meant to send you to a video of great British gardener Monty Don walking through his garden en route to feed the chickens, but I accidentally put in the wrong link. So sorry about that! Unfortunately the original video is no longer available, but Monty’s Instagram account and his website give a pretty good sense of his amazing garden.
And finally, good advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson (from one of his journals): “Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.” (Thanks to Austin Kleon for this.)