Week 47, 2025— chasing sunlight

The weather in Paris has been dismal and it’s hard to tell whether I’m down / things feel harder than they need to be or if it’s a seasonal dip. Going out one night didn’t help—I’ve had so little alcohol these last few months that a few glasses of wine threw me out of whack for two days. Lame. I’d much rather have had two nicer days than the drinks…

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I finished reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and am very pleased I have the paperback version so that I can pick it up again in the future, both literally and figuratively. I started Brené Brown’s new book, Strong Ground. She is a researcher first and foremost and the book presents her latest research, as distilled from client work, academic research, expert interviews, all kinds of other conversations and her own life experiences. There’s two layers of the book: what the findings are, and what she thinks about what they’re learning in the field and practicing themselves. I don’t know if that’s a style that speaks to the mainstream but it’s certainly an attractive one for me!