Hello friends! Welcome to another Sunday. Good grief we’ve earned it.
I hope this finds you happy and well, with a few minutes to click open some links to read today and through the week. This marks the 139th installment of Let It Be Sunday posts! While they’re my favorite to write, I’m thinking I’ll only keep a few editions up at a time… meaning that I’m going to go back and archive all of the past installments. I don’t think you’ll mind too much, but if you’re someone that goes way back to read old editions of this post will you let me know?
This past week I spent a few days in New York for work. I stayed very near the water in Brooklyn and it was such a nice reminder that the pace of New York can be something other than totally mad-dash crazy. It was a really lovely experience.
Like most every other, this week had its fair share of mind-numbing tweets (now longer, for our pleasure), uncertainty, and surprise. Here’s one very light interpretation of light news, Fiona Apple, and hair bows.
• This is important and we need to pay attention. One Day In The Life of Battered Puerto Rico. We’re all just people in the world and their tragedy is ours. Here’s where we can help.
• Our friend Colu went on a lovely trip and this is it: A trip to Greenland.
• Let’s read about loneliness: Work and the Loneliness Epidemic. We’ve got to help each other.
• There’s a short documentary you have to watch on Netflix. True crime meets Larry David: Long Shot.
• A very thoughtful and comprehensive explanation of why women lose their shit sometimes – we do the emotional labor necessary to keep all of life sustained. All of it. Not even an exaggeration. Women Aren’t Nags – We’re Just Fed Up.
• Let’s please take a moment to recall that Fiona Apple had it right from jump-street. Exhibit A: Fast As You Can. Exhibit B: Fiona Apple’s MTV Award Speech.
• It is time to make our own spice: Pumpkin Pie Spice.
• Podcast Talk! I love reality television and love a podcast to talk to me about it. It’s not even a guilty pleasure. I’m just all the way in. New to me podcasts: Bitch Sesh (a lot of Kardashian and Housewives talk). New to all of us: our girl Whitney A has new podcast called Reality Reality.
• I tried my first Rent the Runway this week in New York. I had two dresses delivered to my hotel and returned from my hotel and I would say it was a great success! I didn’t have to worry about wearing a tired-ass dress and I didn’t have to pack as much. Now I’m curious about this Rent the Runway Unlimited. Have any of you dipped a toe in the water?
• Ladies, just read this real quick and think about who we are / where we are: “What hath my conceit wrought but ruin as I sit naked and discomfited upon this most unclean privy.”
• This is a really great 12 minute yoga flow. Plus you get to hear the ocean in the background.
• Filed under The Best Thing I Bought At LaGuardia Airport This Week is this chocolate: Blissfully Better Crunchy Quinoa Toffee Thins. These gems were like a beacon in the night.
• I feel like we could make big romantic bows like this for our necks and hair this Autumn: silk bow barrettes.
Thank you for letting me keep it on the lighter side.
My love to you this Sunday.
xo Joy
Meiko
I need to know where you stayed in NY because I never have that experience when I go. My money is gone as soon as I walk out the door and I feel like I running behind no matter how early I start!
Kelly-Anne Leyman
Thank you for this Let it be Sunday but especially for the Women Aren’t Nags – We’re Just Fed Up article. I feel exactly like this woman!!!!!
Maria
I went through a long period where I missed a lot of your posts and I’m still working on going through them! But I won’t expect you to leave them all up for me :)
Emily S.
I just wanna say, I love your Sunday postings. They’re always interesting and thoughtful!
Monica
Sometimes I save this to read monday morning, because sometimes after the weekend I need something good to read to start off the week. I really liked a lot of the articles this week, and I have to 100% agree on those satin bows. I need at least one (in every color imaginable).
Stephanie
My Sunday was going to consist of laundry and past episodes of Curb while I folded and prepared for the new season premiere. Instead, I woke up and scanned IG Stories and saw pumpkin bread and heard Fiona Apple in the background.. I was immediately transported to my days of angsty posts on Livejournal while blasting Fiona. I made pumpkin bread and listened to Tidal and When the Pawn…
I will get to my laundry this week… maybe.
Thank you, Joy. <3
joythebaker
I want you to know that I was with you on that angsty Livejournal. I was there.
Nicole
the loneliness epidemic article … ugh my heart hurts. thanks for sharing. xo
Valentina
YES welcome to Bitch Sesh!!
joythebaker
Thank you! Feels good. Feels right.
Prianca
Lovely Sunday thoughts! And funny too! Love your attitude!
Briel K.
I love Adriene! I’ve been doing her videos for years (though probably not as often as I should be). :)
Happy Sunday to you Joy!
Marilyn
I need all editions of your Let It Be Sunday Post’s. Poor Favor. Gracias!
Maggie Shirley
I don’t want to be that guy, but I am one of those people that goes back through old Let It Be posts! Please don’t hide them! ?
joythebaker
You’re not that guy! That’s why I asked! xo
Sarah
I am on my second month of RTR Unlimited – overall I really like it, but the shipping time / turnaround time until your next delivery can be frustrating. I live in NYC so when I ship something back it usually arrives to their NJ warehouse the next day, and if I place my order for 3 new items as soon as those spots open up on my account, those new items usually arrive within a day or two. BUT, I think if you live outside the NY/NJ area, you could lose up to a week (2-4 days for return shipping, 2-4 days to receive the new items) between shipments. That said, I love getting to try new items and wearing styles of clothing or designers that I wouldn’t normally buy for myself. I have definitely cut back on shopping and think it is a great alternative to “fast fashion,” and I save on laundry/dry cleaning because after you wear something, you just send it back! They offer 20% off your first month, so if you’re curious, I say go for it! You can cancel anytime. Not sure I’ll do it forever, but I’ve enjoyed it so far!
joythebaker
Thank you so much for your thoughts Sarah! I’ve been thinking about that shipping time. They say within 7 days which nowadays is not actually fast at all. Thank you!
Vivian
“Unpaid Emotional Labor”…Oh boy (no pun intended)…did that resonate! I do “stuff” all the time, not needing any acknowledgement, but “noticing” and “thanking” and “flattery” (great job!) seem to be expected all the time from the other side! It IS emotionally exhausting! It is almost a deal breaker and yet they can’t seem to understand why, can’t seem to wrap their heads around REAL equality! Not needing to be asked…just DOING! “We’ve come a long way, baby”…but hardly far enough! Thank you for finally articulating what I have been feeling for far too long.
elizabeth@pineconesandacorns
Joy,
I love reading all of your Sunday links! Love “why women loose their shit sometimes” that article is spot one…most men just don’t get it.
joythebaker
WORD.