Joy the Baker

Let It Be Sunday, 191!

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Hello Sunday friends! 

I’m glad you’re here.  I hope you’re setting into the day with ease. Take some time to just…. not, today.  You know?  

This week has been remarkably rainy and steamy and I’ll tell you what… it’s not friendly weather for a girl with curly bangs.  Nevertheless, life goes on – someway somehow. 

The news has been much more weighty than my hair woes and we’ve got a new Supreme Court Justice and a deeply divided country to show for it.  The earth is rumbling and heating and still spinning around the stars and here we are mostly trying to do our best about it.  

I officially finished my yoga teacher training this week and I cried with pride about it. Be sure of that.  

Here’s the offering this week.  As always, take whatcha need: 

•  An offering: What Kind of Times Are These (Poetry Foundation) 

•  Let’s make sure we have hobbies.  They’re deeply important to our brainspace and listen, we don’t have to be good at our hobbies to have them!  Let that little nugget liberate you.  In Praise of Mediocrity (NY Times)

•  In what I consider to be very good news: Cat Power is doing just fine, thanks.  See also: Stay.   (The Cut and Spotify)

•  Being human: The Elevator-Phobes of a Vertical City ( Topic)

•  The creator of the television show Mad Men has new work for us, thank goodness:  Matthew Weiner in the mirror (Vanity Fair) 

•  We really should know by now to stay out of the forest:  Marriage proposal goes awry after hiking couple gets lost.  (Slate) SSGM

•  I very much want to see the movie Private Life.  (Vox) 

•  We’re making Apple Pies at The Bakehouse next Sunday – you should join us!  (Eventbrite)

•  Speaking of apples, here what I hope you’re making soon:  Ina’s Apple Pie Bars.  (Joy the Baker)

•  I’m not quite done talking about apples yet.  This recipe from Food52 looks interesting to me.  My insticnt is to add butter and buttermilk to the filling but apple butter is clever isn’t it? Apple Butter Pie. 

•  Listening to:  NAO, for all we know. It’s such a vibe.  (Spotify)

•  Suddenly, a little lamp that’s hard to live without.  (West Elm) 

I hope you have a sweet day!

My love to you. 

xo Joy

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  2. Congrats on your yoga teacher training! Woo hoo! This jungle sauna weather is bad news for my hair too — I keep being reminded of that tweet about low ponytails looking like colonial woodworkers (or the colonytail as I have rebranded it) Love the apple recipes and excited for the new series from Matthew Weiner. Thanks, Joy!

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  3. Congrats to you that’s amazing! I have a tea towel in my kitchen from when I tried to be “Cat Power” for Halloween back in the day and the iron-on letters wound up not going on the shirt I was going to wear, but backwards on the tea towel I used to iron it: “Tac Rewop.” Which is what I say ALL THE TIME when shit is not going how I want it to.

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  5. I made Ina’s apple pie bars last weekend and brought them to work they were a hit! I left out the nuts since I didn’t know if anyone had a. It allergy or not. Highly recommend!

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  6. Mazel Tov on completing your yoga teacher training!! Where in town will you be teaching? Swan River? Wild Lotus? Somewhere else?
    I usually go to classes at Swan River, but am always looking for good new ones to try. :^D

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  7. I am concerned that you are reading my mind. The second time a recipe question/thought/query popped in my head and you supplied the answer, this time in the form of Apple Butter pie :) Congrats on the YTT. Yoga is the best! Have a wonderful week, dear Joy.

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  8. It makes me so happy that you completed your training and cried with pride! Yay!
    A new way for you to share love, healing, strength, which we all need on the daily.

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  9. Regarding what kind of times these are please also read Mary Oliver’s “Of the Empire.” True then. True now. Some things never change except for the worse.

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