Good day mates!
How’s your summer time going? Final week, I took the children to a celebration at a rustic membership, the place they determined they needed to leap off the excessive dive. Ever the supportive mom, I parked myself in a lounge chair to take movies. Nicely, one in every of my children chickened out and didn’t wish to leap till MOM did.
So, decided to bottle my concern of heights, I reduce a gaggle of twerpy sixth graders in line—despite the fact that they towered over me—and climbed up the ladder, walked the plank, then hesitated two seconds earlier than leaping in and feeling the chilly water shoot by way of each crevice of my physique. It was superior.
Naturally, there’s a larger metaphor to be made right here about mustering all of your braveness and plunging into the unknown with each ft. However we will unpack that one other time. Let’s get into the Sunday hyperlinks!
Xo,
Toby
• Although I grew up in Nashville listening to Waylon and all of the basic nation greats, I’ve by no means actually been into nation music. That’s, till this summer time. I went by way of a Judds* part—as a result of, girls—then I used to be launched to this banger and began carrying cutoff shorts with bathing swimsuit tops as shirts ‘trigger it simply felt proper. Subsequent, my buddy who works within the business clued me into some critically high shelf music by Tyler Childers. And now I’m all nation on a regular basis. (YouTube)
*I don’t suggest attempting to sing this at karaoke evening. I’ve by no means bombed so laborious. (However don’t you like the outdated live performance footage with out everybody holding iPhones within the air?)
• Product rec: I gave this to a buddy for her birthday as a result of she’s at all times complimented how I smelled once we went in for a hug. I began carrying it years in the past after asking the store lady for her sexiest fragrance. Don’t gatekeep your magnificence secrets and techniques! (Sephora)
• One in every of my e-book membership besties advisable a Mel Robbins podcast episode, “The Let Them Idea,” which was super-relevant to my “bossy” character. She describes going from being a management freak to letting the present of what’s occurring take you in a unique course. Preach. (Apple Podcasts)
• What are you watching nowadays? I blew by way of Am I Being Unreasonable, which is humorous and darkish in a Fleabag + I Hate Susie sort of means. Plus, the feminine friendship carries on the Useless to Me vibe. (Hulu)
• Assume I’m going to look at The Good Discover this weekend. Will report again. (Netflix)
• My oldest son is obsessive about Zelda and has been plugged into Tears of the Kingdom all summer time, which I by no means associated to till studying this sensible essay from Amber Sparks. (The Audacity)
• When Pleasure gifted me this charming cherry necklace, I handed it all the way down to my daughter as a result of she loves it. She was over the moon and I like this firm’s product descriptions + total mission. (Delicacies)
• I’m not a pet individual — sorry, sorry — so I appreciated Anne Marie Tendler’s tribute to her pup, Petunia, as a result of it helped me empathize with all my mates who’ve cats & canine. (Elle)
• Have you ever seen Previous Lives? It’s a shocking movie I’ve labored into each dialog this month. I couldn’t assist however Google Teo Yoo, who’s huge on the Ok-drama circuit, and omg. (Twitter)
• I couldn’t click on on Jia Tolentino’s profile of Olivia Rodrigo quick sufficient. (Vogue)
• “As Bugs Bunny knew, gender is theater, no matter else it’s.” – the fabulous Alexander Chee on drag tradition. (Harper’s Bazaar)
• The summer time studying checklist is my favourite submit of the 12 months, and you will discover it right here. A number of of these books aren’t launched but however you possibly can take a look at final summer time’s since these are all obtainable at your native library. Blissful studying! (Pleasure the Baker)
• Joan Didion’s writing has been hitting laborious for me currently — okay, wonderful, she’s had this impact my complete life — and I hope you’ll pause at the moment to learn On Self-Respect. (Vogue)
• My home was experiencing a scorching canine hangover after the vacation weekend so I made Pleasure’s Simple Watermelon Feta and Cucumber Salad. Simple is the important thing phrase right here however, primarily, this salad at all times feels so crisp and recent when it’s 1,000,000 levels exterior. (Pleasure the Baker)
• Lastly, the one one that can get me to learn 8,121 phrases on David Foster Wallace in 2023 is Patricia Lockwood. (London Evaluation of Books)
