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🥾hiking church today was especially lovely with the snow.

Elements of creativity anniemueller.com/posts/ele…

Several hundred things at a time anniemueller.com/posts/sev…

Braved the pre-Thanksgiving crowds at Costco to pick up mac and cheese, pie, dip and chips, and wine. I have made a lot of wrong moves in life but somehow I’ve worked out the holiday food gig pretty well. I’ll show up with these Costco things, hug everyone, and feast.

People may not be persuadable by reason, and we don’t need to assume that they are. But we do have to live as if people are persuadable by love, mercy, and the life you are willing to live with them. This is, after all, the most meaningful form the truth ever takes.

From @tinyroofnail, here

The problem with individuality anniemueller.com/posts/the…

Burn, build, bridge anniemueller.com/posts/bur…

Adventure Time is such a good show

It’s time for another dancing in the kitchen video, ready or not!!!

I’m not technically in the kitchen but trust me, this was safer (giant pot o’ chili on the stove). & I learned how to speed videos up, so basically I’m a movie wizard now.

Dancing is human like art is human like love is human.

Note to self: Cancel more things. Just nope right out. Free up your time, save your energy, do less, say No more often, it’s okay, you don’t have to do all the things.

This poem comes to mind so often.

The World Is Too Much With Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not…

Finished reading: The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis 📚

I don’t even play chess (maybe I should start) but I enjoyed this book. Might watch the Netflix series again now.

Is it funny if I’m the only one laughing? anniemueller.com/posts/is-…

You’re the only one anniemueller.com/posts/you…

This is the cheese-o-meter I’ve been waiting for. Thanks @davidmarsden for your service.

The good news is when the battery died I was literally a block from home. And my mechanic’s quick and less than a mile away. The bad news is it’s probably the battery and the alternator so there goes that extra Christmas money I’d been saving. Sometimes, Monday just tries too hard.

Empty anniemueller.com/posts/emp…

Boys don’t cry

Criticism can be the most fierce when it’s coming from within, and there are always more ways to punish yourself. So I’ll repeat advice that I hope someday I’ll be able to take: Be kind to yourself and offer yourself grace.

Well this is delightful