Since I was a kid, Friday's have always been my favorite day of the week. 

They are pregnant with the excitement of the weekend...and since weekends rarely live up to the hype, I think that I have found more joy in the expectation of the weekend. 

I notice as I get older that this holds true for most things.
-The Christmas season is actually the thing we love, not Christmas day which comes and goes so quickly that it's hard not to feel a little anti-climactic. 
-The cup of coffee that I have been looking forward to since I went to sleep the night before gets downed, and I really don't remember drinking it.

** "They call it a Royale with cheese."

** Pulp Fiction, 1994

Friday February 7th, 2020 It's that time again!!! Friday Five Time!! I've got a few things up the sleeve this week that I think you will enjoy.

On why I don't "hide" or "unfriend" people that are in my social media feeds that post annoying things that I absolutely disagree with:

Because if I do that, am I not becoming the thing I hate?  If I can't sit and listen to what the "other" person is saying, am I not succumbing to exactly the thing that we are all accusing one another of doing?

Once every six months I hear something that is so powerful and important that it is the only thing that makes the Friday Five.

It's no coincidence that the only other times I have done this involve the same 2 people talking.

Rich Roll and Zach Bush have found a chemistry that I can't stop listening to.  This was at a special event and there were so many things in this talk that I had to stop the video, rewind, and write down things over and over.

Almost all the ancient religious scriptural texts have references to becoming "like a child".  

I'm in a house right now with children at the ages of 3, 7, 11, and 14.  

I've now watched the "distance appear" (mentioned in the quote above) in 2 of the 4. It will happen shortly in the other 2 as it has happened to every human throughout history.  

My dad always told me, "Wisdom is learning from someone else's experience."

This is difficult for a few reasons. 

We rarely learn from our own experiences, so how can we be expected to learn from someone else's? 

Even when we learn from our own experience, it is difficult to make changes that lead us away from comfort...from knowing, into what might actually be harder for us, but also lead to healing.

Friday January 3rd, 2020!!

I didn't make it to midnight on New Year's Eve

My challenge for 2019 was to jump rope 500,000 times.  I made it to 75,350 before I got a really bad case of poison ivy, my arches got tight, and I got off rhythm and didn't pick it back up again.

I yelled at my kids when I should have been patient.

I ate too much at lunch and it killed the rest of my day...and I knew I was doing it as it went down.

I judged people.

This time of year comes LOADED with lots of emotions, memories, and significance.

Stay in each moment.  

If you are joyful, rejoice.  

If you are mourning, mourn with fervor.

Remember that this year holds its own events and a chance to create or add to holiday traditions.  

Give yourself the grace you deserve in this time, to be who you are, and in doing so freeing others to be who they are...together.  

Each Thursday night, my wife takes a living sourdough "starter", and creates between 15-20 loaves of amazing dough. That dough sits around our kitchen overnight and then she gets up at 5:30am and begins to bake this wondrous bread.

I don’t know where to start...do I start every newsletter with that line?...maybe just in my own head.

First, Navy Beans. Over the next couple of weeks every box size will get them. These are Ohio grown (of course), Organic (of course), from Shagbark. Coolest part? WE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEM! We bought them ALL, FOR YA’LL! That’s the kind of cool stuff that is happening for YB’ers now. Do you understand that you are changing the food system for growers, purveyors, AND eaters?

HAPPY FRIDAY!

After taking a couple months off, I now have a backlogged catalog of things I want to show you.

I have a bit of a Santa Claus complex (finding fun surprises for people that I think they will enjoy), so this is a way to use up some of that energy. What I don't use here, we use each week when we go out and find the best food to bring to our Yellowbird customers.