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Let It Be Monday , December 2014!

-Dear Sugar

December 29, 2014 by Joy the Baker 29 Comments

let it be monday

[L]et’s take it slow this last week of the year.  We have a lot to absorb and a future to dream.

Where have you been this year?

I’ve been to Uganda and Costa Rica.  I’ve been to the kitchen and the coffee shop.  I’ve been to California and New Orleans.  I’ve been scared and curious and anxious and exhilarated.  I’ve been to New York and Nashville.  I’ve been in the sky and on the ground.  Literally.  I have the plane ticket stubs and the scraped knees to prove every bit of it.

I’ve also been hungry.  For all the things all at once.

•  The end of the year brings with it many photo roundups.  Here’s another… let’s call this one astonishing.  More and astonishing photos of 2014.  It’s the big, beautiful, complicated, troubled, marvelous world we live in.

•  Peter Edward Kassig was a US Army Ranger and aid worker in Syria and Lebanon.  That’s too easy to type.  He was also a son, student, flawed human, cool dude, laugher at jokes… you know the deal.  In 2012 he founded Special Emergency Response and Assistance, an aid foundation dedicated to providing medical assistance, supplies, and food to refugees in Syria and Lebanon.  Extra ordinary. He was taken captive in eastern Syria on October 1, 2013 by ISIS and beheaded November 16, 2014.  Please read this story about one man trying to save another.  It’s really remarkable.   The Race To Save Peter Kassig.   

•  This wall lay you right out on the floor.  It’s astounding.  10 of the best “Dear Sugar” Advice Columns by Wild Author Cheryl Strayed.  My advice: read every word of it.  I love “The Ghost Ship That Didn’t Carry Us”.

•  Then there’s this:  The Obliterated Place.  Dammit all.

•  3 Ways to Responsibly and Compassionately Respond to Panhandling

•  You should know that, as much as I’m into butter and sugar… I’m also really into space and Mt. Everest.  5,200 Days In Space.    

•  How To Write:  A Year In Advice.  What does it mean if I find the advice itself daunting?

•  I’ve Got Fifty Trivial Problems.  Join the club, buddy.

•  Golden State.  See what they did there?

•  Everyone should have a friend like Whitney A.

•  My purse and travel palette.  Yes, we’re talking about makeup for a moment.  Thanks for letting it happen. Can we know about the world, care about people, and talk about makeup all at once?  Sure we can.  Sure we can.

Happy Monday, my friends.  I love you.  Don’t make it weird.

xo Joy

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  1. Kris

    January 9, 2015 at 2:15 pm

    On the topic of space, did you see this when it aired earlier this year? So good!

    https://www.makers.com/documentary/womeninspace

    Also, Col Chris Hadfield. Swoon.

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  2. cupcake recipes

    January 4, 2015 at 3:00 pm

    great monday start with this cake

    Reply
  3. Lori

    January 1, 2015 at 3:04 pm

    You’re making me want the makeup! Looks gorgeous!

    Reply
  4. cheyenne

    December 30, 2014 at 8:29 am

    that dear sugar reply is amazing. i need to take my time and go through all the other letters.
    xo, cheyenne

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    • joythebaker

      December 30, 2014 at 8:47 am

      right!? so so good.

      Reply
  5. Sally

    December 30, 2014 at 2:09 am

    Happy New Year Joy – hope 2015 is a rewarding one and look forward to reading all you’ve got to share.

    Reply
  6. esensky

    December 30, 2014 at 1:40 am

    THANK YOU so so much for introducing me to Dear Sugar, that woman…”astounding” is right.

    Reply
  7. Kristin

    December 29, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    oh my gosh, my week off just got so much better thanks to the rabbit hole of dear sugar articles. thank you, truly.

    Reply
  8. Shannon

    December 29, 2014 at 8:34 pm

    Omg, thank you for introducing me to Whitney A.’s videos- I’ve binge-watched and laughed.

    Reply
  9. Xochi

    December 29, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    Dang it Joy. These were some beautiful and heart wrenching links! And now I’m bawling my eyes out at work! Please don’t do this to me on a Monday! ;)

    Reply
  10. Kathryn

    December 29, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    These roundup posts of your are literally some of my favorite on the internet. I look forward to them each and every week. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    Wishing you all the best for 2015, Joy!

    xx Kathryn
    https://www.throughthethicket.ca

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  11. Abby Barstow

    December 29, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    Oh my goodness that make up pallet is perfect. Yep, it’s added to my wish list!

    Reply
  12. Ella

    December 29, 2014 at 12:41 pm

    I just recently picked up the Naked on the Run palette and I am LOVING it – the gloss is so unsticky!
    https://www.youtube.com/sparklesandsuch26

    Reply
    • joythebaker

      December 29, 2014 at 2:32 pm

      it’s so good, right!?

      Reply
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