Have a Relaxing Weekend.

thank you for always brightening my weekend with these posts! thank you! (loving the thank you link) ! :) :) :)

The poem is perfect for my day. I love when worlds collide unbeknownst to those involved. You are not in my world and I not in yours and yet both of ours collided today in such a meaningful way. Thank you for just following your gut and putting messages out there in the world. You never know who they’ll collide with. xo

Beautiful, beautiful poem. Thank you.

love that poem. thank you for sharing.

Thank you for sharing! Will check the links out!
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Miri

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I love that poem, thank you for sharing it Joanna. I recently discovered Mary Oliver’s poetry and have been thankful for the strength I’ve drawn from her words, Wild Geese filled my heart and caught in my throat.

Hi Joanna,
I can’t remember exactly how I found your blog a little while ago, but this cyber-space world we live in now has prompted me to contact you. As for finding your blog, I remember seeing a post about a young woman (you), who had a twin sister and haled from Rochester Hills, MI, also my home town. RH isn’t THAT big, so I clicked on it and lo and behold, I realized you used to live behind us in Bellarmine Hills on Gunder Drive! We are the Marshalls and you and Lucy used to babysit our girls (Allison, Annick, Evvie & Catrina–I think she was born when you and Lucy would sit-not totally sure!) Anywho, many years have passed, n’est-ce pas? Allison is 31; our “baby” is 22. Annick has 2 little girls. We all live in San Antonio now (since 2008). I read about Lucy and your BIL, Paul. So, so sorry for your family’s loss. I’ve been reflecting on when you were a little part of our lives and how the future held so much promise, hope, and dreams. Ah, the twists and turns of life. And now we’re ALL adults. My, how time simply breezes by. It’s still 24 hours in a day, but why-oh-why does it seems to go so incredibly fast?!? Hope this brings a smile to your face. Happy Resurrection Sunday! Sincerely, Pam Marshall

The poem got me. Thanks for sharing really! Happy Easter!!

I dunno about some of those thank yous:

“6. When someone gives you unsolicited advice.

Example: “You know, you should really keep your hips back when you do that exercise.”

Instead of: “Oh really? Do you have a video of yourself doing it so I can see it done correctly?”

Try saying: “Thank you for the help.”

I think it’s tricky, especially for women, to thank someone that is giving you unsolicited advice. Creating boundaries is okay. Why should you say “thank you” for something that you’re really not thankful for? Maybe I missed the point of the article, but I can think of all kinds of scenarios where this advice would be terrible.

The Thank you piece was intriguing because I’m Canadian and say “thank you” a good deal. But some of the ways he suggests don’t make sense, especially for a woman. Why would I necessarily thank someone who is being aggressively negative to me? I can see some of the logic because bland thank you could deflate the situation at times. Reacting defensively or aggressively in return is no good. But his examples make it sound like one has to submit to someone’s crazy mean judgment. That would just be affirming to that person that s/he has someone got the right to be a rude, mean critic and get away with it. There has to be a more neutralizing way to handle that situation without validating the victimizer (“I hear your view.” ? or “I can see your view; it is helpful to remember that there is more than one way to do that, think about that, etc” ?).

Everything is Copy is so wonderful! I laughed and cried my way through the whole thing. I only wished I had more wine and ice cream to accompany me. A commenter here suggested it the other day, and I was delighted to discover yet another great documentary via the Cup of Jo community.

Read this before your Easter egg hunt!
http://www.janetlansbury.com/2015/04/when-parents-invade-childhood-a-lesson-in-distrust/

Great links! I loved the article on hiding pregnancies on TV.

The article on hiding TV pregnancies was really interesting and (surprisingly) so were the comments, which had other great examples of hidden pregnancies and also a discussion about the extreme thinness of actresses on prime time TV around 2000, which I had totally forgotten about. The article and comments made me think (1) maybe we are actually making some gains in public perception of women’s bodies (yay!) and (2) I bet women in real life, not on TV use a lot of the same tricks to hide their pregnancies when they’re in situation that is not encouraging, whether it be personal, career, or something else.

I can’t wait to watch the Nora Ephron documentary. I’m hearing about it from everywhere! I’ll get to it this weekend.
That dress is so beautiful, too. I keep imagining seeing someone wear it on the street. It would be a summer-time staple for sure.

“We all need green beans to eat….” Awesome!
Have a good Easter Sunday to you all!
Xxx

Happy Easter Joanna.
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Can’t wait to see the Nora Ephron documentary. Who knows when it will get to my remote corner of France :(
Roberta Flack is so wonderful. I love that “Killing Me Softly” is being covered so I hear it again, but hers is still the best.
James Corden is too cute for words.

I love that article about what Trader Joe’s employees eat! It’s not that different than what I get from there : )

Also saw that Qs to Ask Before You Get Married article this morning. I think it asks some really good questions. Not surprising that a lot of them have to do with how you handle finances or value things in life.