TGIF!

Husband's Childhood Bottle collection | Hannah & Husband

I’m pretty obsessed with Husband’s childhood bottle collection that I put up on our porch. 

It has been raining cats & dogs this week! Rain at Rivermont is pretty terrific. All the green outside our windows brightens up during the showers so I couldn’t resist snapping the pic above before I left this morning. (As a side note: When did label design get so uncool? I just can’t stop with these vintage bottles!)

Per the usual TGIF! post, there are some links to some of my favorite things around the web below. Happy Friday!

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A huge thank you to the Knoxville News Sentinel and Lesli Bales-Sherrod for sharing our Rivermont journey in yesterday’s issue. The fact that the paper was *pink* made it even better! Click here to read the story.

There was an article this week in the New York Times titled “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” It was so interesting to think about how our conversations have actually become more shallow because we feel the need to bail at any moment and move our attention to the phone. Studies show that we have less of a capacity for empathy and our basically losing a part of ourselves because we are so tech-focused.

“The capacity for empathetic conversation goes hand in hand with the capacity for solitude. In solitude we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours… It is often in the moments when we stumble, hesitate and fall silent that we most reveal ourselves to one another.”

It’s not that the article was terribly surprising, but it did make me think a little bit deeper about how I want the screen to be present in my everyday life.

Also along those lines, the TED Radio Hour podcast just did a two-parter called “Screen Time” that is worth a listen.

And finally, if you’d like to check up on people that will make you really question what you’re doing with your life, the Wall Street Journal checked in with this year’s MacArthur Genius Grant recipients. Since Chris Thile’s win in 2012, I’m always curious to see what these extraordinary minds are into. This year one of our favorites, Lin-Manuel Miranda, won. He’s the creator of “Hamilton.” which we’re dying to see, and also the guy that did The Radio Drama Episode on This American Life.

Go forth, read, and have an amazing weekend!

 

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