by Anne Cloud | Nov 30, 2023 | Joy Newsletter
Last Minute Rewrite For the first time since I began writing these, I had this entire newsletter prepared well in advance. But this morning, I woke up inspired to do something entirely different. It was going to be about how this is the year anniversary of this...
by Anne Cloud | Oct 12, 2023 | Joy Newsletter
One Minute The world seems upside down, again. I’m not in a bubble writing this newsletter and it feels tricky to figure out what to say when the global news is so heavy. Sometimes it feels hard to breathe. It’s challenging to focus on daily activities like...
by Anne Cloud | Sep 28, 2023 | Joy Newsletter, Family
Unplugging I’m going to try a thing. It feels incredibly exciting and super scary all at once. Which leads me to believe the move is long overdue. Starting tonight, at 5:30pm every day for the next two weeks, I‘ll dock my phone, shut down my computer, and unplug until...
by Anne Cloud | Sep 14, 2023 | Joy Newsletter
Freedom Freedom is such a loaded word. At ZigZag Agile Learning Center, where my kids attend school three days a week, the focus is on freedom. As in, the kids have the freedom to do what they want all day; to participate—or not—in activities that interest them. Some...
by Anne Cloud | Aug 31, 2023 | Joy Newsletter, Family
Seasonal Fruit You know what I love? The seasonality of fruit. The shifting and changing of what’s available – or at least what’s deliciously available. Over the last few months, I gorged on stone fruit. Peaches, plums, cherries, nectarines-it’s been pure joy....
by Anne Cloud | Aug 10, 2023 | Joy Newsletter
Life’s Simple Pleasures Today, I have just one thing to share. Yet it’s countless. It’s life’s simple pleasures. A teacher of mine highlighted this for me recently. She encouraged me to focus my attention on life’s subtle joys. Let me...
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