Hey friends, I just returned from a weekend away with my sister. Things got real crazy (middle aged women crazy); I drank coffee (tea drinker) and ate focaccia (gluten sensitive). I've been bumping into chairs and struggling to form sentences the past few days. Suffice to say some lessons are hard to learn, even the ones that seem small and ridiculous. I am a tea drinker and I can't eat wheat without becoming reduced to a clumsier, crankier and more confused version of myself. That said I had to pour myself a cup of coffee to get this episode out - the withdrawal is real. Grace for all the versions of ourselves.

Mostly I was driving around and strolling with my sister in a state of curiosity and blubbering wide open heartedness (seriously tearing up all day long everywhere). Curiosity is something that has come up now in two books I've recently read; Joy-Full AF by Dr. Erin Baker where they talk about curiosity as one of the primary ingredients of joy and Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert where she talks about curiosity as simply the best operating system we have as humans.

I noticed it, this curiosity, over the weekend. I actually heard it's soft voice (my curiosity is so polite / it doesn't shout), where I usually just ignore it, and let it guide me a bit; I ended up in an Episcopal church (and I'm not Episcopal) listening to a roundtable of old ladies speak on how their faith has been tested and restored, I made an offer on a farm in Ohio (we didn't get it but it was still an amazing experience), and I fell in love all day long (again crying a lot) with the mommas and speakers that I encountered at the conference we were attending even when those folks were coming from wildly different family ecosystems than mine.

It left me emotional and in a place of deep love. I think this often quiet curiosity can be a key to finding grace in the chaos of our everyday. I'm going to now enter my house where my children may be crying, the dog may have peed on something, I don't know what we're making for dinner and the laundry has piled up. Curious indeed. Love and luck to us all.

Good things mentioned in today's Episode:

We are wrapping up season one of Finding What's True in May. I will still be sharing our journey over Substack, where I will be writing and telling stories from the road over the summer, so be sure to subscribe.

https://findingwhatstrue.substack.com/

Four Corners Studio:

⁠https://www.fourcorners.studio/⁠

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church:

https://ststephensslo.org/

Dr. Erin Baker:

https://erinmbaker.com/

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert:

https://a.co/d/cCjB8bi