Let It Be Sunday, 251!

Hello friends! 

I just realized this is the last Let It Be Sunday of the year!  Itโ€™s actually the last Let It Be Sunday of the decade. Honestly thatโ€™s far too much pressure to acknowledge further.  Iโ€™m not ready to sum of the year, let alone the decade.  What is wild is that Iโ€™ve been Joy the Baker for this entire decade.  This decade, plus some. Thatโ€™s pretty cool.  Iโ€™ll give myself a congratulatory handshake over that.  Itโ€™s more official than a pat on the back. 

I hope youโ€™ve had a restful holiday. I hope youโ€™ve successfully navigated through family dynamics to an easy space of laughter and care.  Itโ€™s a reflective time of year so take the time when you have it. Enjoy.  Itโ€™s sweet to be in the world these days. 

The offering this week is below. Take only what y0u need. The rest is for me. 

โ€ข  Iโ€™m a sucker for a photo compilation and this one is very reflective:  The New York Times Year In Pictures

โ€ข  99 Good New Stories you maybe didnโ€™t hear about this year. In case you need them.  (Future Crunch) 

โ€ข  Iโ€™ll leave this here for you: Stories of forgiveness. (The Washington Post) 

โ€ข  I think about this collection of photos, this big love, this sentiment at least once a week. Itโ€™s become a silent mantra: Love it allA husbandโ€™s farewell to his dying wife. (Elephant Journal0 

โ€ข  Are you making a vision board this year? I think I just decided toโ€ฆ just as I was typing this sentence.  Maybe itโ€™s silly but Iโ€™m all about making my own dreams come true one way or another.  The Difference Between Intentions and Resolutions. (Medium) 

โ€ข  This past weekend I made Debโ€™s Chocolate Caramel Crackers.  I have no regrets. (Smitten Kitchen) 

โ€ข  I printed off a few of these 2020 Lunar Calendars as gifts.  Sweet, right? (Etsy)

โ€ข  High-key interested in making and consuming these Cold Rent-Week Pesto Rice Noodles.  Totally out of season, but they still sounds pretty dang good. (Bon Appetit)

โ€ข  Ok ok what we really need is warm soup. I know.  Please consider Stuffed Pepper Soup which looks incredibly comforting and like exactly what we deserve.  (The Kitchn) 

โ€ข  My favorite meme of the year, expounded upon: Cats can have a little salami. (Mashable)

โ€ข   The invitation is to take in this delightfully different T-Pain Tiny Desk Concert. (NPR) 

โ€ข  One of my favorite presents from this Christmas was Anne Lamottโ€™s Almost Everything: Notes on Hope.  Itโ€™s settling and has so many good reminders going into the new year. Thank you, JK!  Find it here on Amazon and here at Parnassus

โ€ข  Iโ€™m currently compiling this list while on a plane to Houston. The man next to me is chatty and inquisitive and I politely answered his questions but could definitely feel my walls up.  Heโ€™s reading now. Iโ€™m typing furiously. (Iโ€™ve been told Iโ€™m a loud typer.) . I just googled โ€œdo you talk to strangers on airplanes?โ€ and came across this: The Pros and Cons of Talking To Strangers on Planes. (Conde Nast) 

โ€ข  Jon made Breakfast Tacos for a crowd! (The Candid Appetit) 

Happy New Years friends! 

Thanks for being here with me. 

Big love to you.

xo Joy

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  1. I made that stuffed pepper soup โ€“ it is SO GOOD! Itโ€™s definitely going in the soup rotation with tomato and your sweet potato kale this winter.

  2. All the Tiny Desk concerts are great, but the T-Pain one is my favorite. Such a surprise to hear him sing without the autotune. I had no idea he was so talented. I share it with anyone I have a reason to! Happy new year to you!

  3. Happy New Year to you Joy. May the coming year bring us all more compassion, understanding and patience; with each other and ourselves. Please continue sharing your recipes and Sunday morning musings, sometimes itโ€™s the only bearable reading to be found.

  4. Wishing you a Happy New Year in New Orleans, will be there for the Saints in the Super Bowl, back with friends at the Carasouel Bar Iโ€™m the Hotel Monteleone! All good wishes & luck appreciated!

  5. Happy almost New Year to you and Tron! I have tomorrow off and hope to do some reflecting on the past year and maybe even past decade (gulp). There are a lot of things Iโ€™d like to change or improve about the way I live my life and I hope that setting some intentions and maybe even doing a vision board will help with that.

  6. Great post (as always), Joy! Wishing you a Happy 2020! I am eager to try the stuffed pepper soup โ€” perfect for the winter!!

  7. Happy new year, Joy! Thanks for all you do. <3 It's been a pleasure to follow along all these years!

    That Anne Lamott book sounds like just what I need in these times. Can't wait to check it out!

  8. Snap! My personal family blog turns 10 on 2 January 2020 โ€“ never thought I would be doing it that long. I have loved yours for years so many thanks for Let It Be Sunday!

  9. Great links! Love this!!!! I am an intentional talk to strangers on airplanes girl. I choose a middle seat! Who does that, right? Well, let me tell you I have made friends that way, made business deals (big ones) and I have prevented a suicide (not kidding) by the time we got off the flight the person admitted they were flying to this place to jump off a cliff to their death and they thanked me for bringing them from that place. For those of you that didnโ€™t want to talk to me, thatโ€™s ok too but when you are placed next to someone for several hours there may just be a purpose in it.
    I follow some of the bloggers that I do from sitting next to them. And *bonus* I have a wide variety of seats to choose from on flights!

    1. I thought of you today as I boarded a plane to Los Angeles! I didnโ€™t choose a middle seat but I help your sentiment with me and chatted a bit with my seat mate. Thanks for your share!

  10. I donโ€™t normally talk to strangers on planes and my headphones normally keep people away. But fair warning, if I ever sit next to you I will talk to you. Been a fan since the beginning and have had a crush on you since then as well. I swear Iโ€™m harmless and Iโ€™m not a creepy old man. Just a fan ?

  11. THANK YOU for linking to an indie bookstore for your book link! As an indie bookseller whose been with you for this decade and beyond, it means a lot. ?? Happy new year!

  12. I have a piece of leftover foam board from an long ago abandoned project that I now realize needs to become a vision board. Because I was born in a โ€œ0โ€ year, my birthday corresponds with the reflections and intentions that come with an impending milestone. There are no coincidences, and this is exactly what I needed to read this morning. Thank you. And thank you for continuing to be Joy the Baker through the decade when Iโ€™m sure there were times when you would prefer to be โ€œJoy the [fill in the blank]โ€, instead. And a most sincere thank you for making my time in Bywater a bit more special. Weโ€™ve said good-bye to NOLA for now, but Iโ€™m only a plane ride away from a Bakehouse event. Happy New Year!

  13. I just read the article about talking to strangers on a plane. I do quite a bit of international travel for fun. I love to talk but never ever start conversations and have almost never have anyone start one with me! I recently spent 19 hours next to a young man and we never exchanged a word! I wish you hadnโ€™t mentioned those caramel crackers! Now I have to make them! Happy New Year!

  14. LOL re: โ€œCats Can have Little a Salamiโ€โ€ฆ but I canโ€™t believe you wrote it the other way in your post! Or was that on purpose? ;)

  15. Happy new year Joy! Youโ€™re one of the few blogs Iโ€™ve read consistently through the last decade and Iโ€™m so grateful youโ€™re still at it.

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