Hello sweet friend!
Gosh we made it to another Sunday. Can you believe?
Will you do me a favor? Tell me what you do when you settle down with this post? What’s your routine? I can tell you my routine in writing this post for you – it’s really my favorite thing to put together for you every week.
I build Let It Be Sunday all week. I pile in links here and there as the Internet comes at me over the week. On Friday I sit down to spend time sorting thru to see what makes the cut. I usually have a cup of tea, James Blake on the stereo, Tron meowing for dinner an hour early, me thinking about wine an hour early. I schedule the post for Sunday, cross my fingers that I’ve done enough proof reading though I know I never do, and I high-five myself to have an actual weekend.
I appreciate so much that you’re on the other end of these random thoughts. Thanks for taking them in every week. The offering this week is below. Take what you want and only what you need:
• 14 ways we’re getting through these terrible times and even finding some JOY, no pun intended. I myself have take on The Joy of Jogging Very, Very Slowly. (The New York Times)
• Dang, King Arthur Flour – you really did the damn thing! Inside The Flour Company Supplying America’s Sudden Baking Obsession. (Medium)
• From Ann Friedman’s newsletter – Nostalgia is our modern condition. Le sigh. (The Walrus)
• This will end with you cupping your hand over your mouth, crying. But here’s the thing: you must read this, really: My Mother, My Daughter by Samantha Irby (The Rumpus)
• This quote ran at me this week and floored me flat on my back. “One of the reasons people lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity is the belief that children are the way to fulfill your capacity to love. But there are so many things to love besides one’s own offspring, so many things that need love, so much other work love has to do in the world.” – Rebecca Solnit (New York Times)
• Are we doing this? I have a Quarantine Bubble With People Outside My House. You Should Too! (Slate)
• Last week Marie brought this article to my attention and I’m appreciative: PPP Is Complicated For Women. One Chef Explains Why. (Bon Appetit)
• Clarinetist Tim Laughlin was my neighbor on Royal Street when I lived in the Quarter. (Nola.com)
• What Quarantine Taught Me About Cooking on one of the best websites on the internet: Cup of Jo.
• This week I’m listening to our friend Jocelyn Delk Adams of Grandbaby Cakes on Radio Cherry Bombe. Also listening to my friend Erin Kelly talk about quarantining with her ghost here in New Orleans. (Cherry bombe and Apple Podcasts)
• You didn’t know you needed this, but I’ll tell you what, if you’ve ever even considered cooking a dry bean in your life all of this has crossed your mind: Possibly-Explicable Things People Sometimes Say About Cooking Beans. Thank you Nicole. (Shatner Chatner)
• We’re all very vary excited for this book – The Chiffon Trenches: A Memoir by Andre Leon Talley (Parnassus Books)
• Should I splurge on this shirt? (Imogen + Willie)
• I cannot stress this enough – you must make this week’s PB & J Cobbler. (Joy the Baker)
Have a wonderful Sunday, won’t you?
My love to you!
xo Joy
Jayme Brown
I laze around in bed with my husband and dog as long as I can because it’s the only day of the week where one of us doesn’t have to get up for work. Eventually I get anxious so I do get up, make myself some herbal tea, check the weather for the day, delete all other new emails except yours, and get to reading. It’s one of my favorite weekly rituals.
Erin
On Sunday mornings I wake up, sometimes light a candle. I make a cup of coffee and slowly drink it as I make my way thought the links. This was a routine I enjoyed in the “before times”; however, now that everyone is home all the time Sunday mornings are some of the only true me time I get, and, as such, I find myself looking forward to this ritual all the more. Happy early birthday, and thanks for significantly contributing to my self-care during quarantine :)
Kelly
I check my email in bed before I officially get up for the day, saving your email for last. I read it and then actually get out of bed, get my coffee, and peruse your list again, clicking and reading only on those offerings that I want. I LOVE your comforting words week after week, as you have become a truly important part of my Sunday!
Jane Bartow
We moved into our summer place this week and so we are isolating a while to make sure the trip to KS from AZ was safe. My husband brews us big espressos using Caribou coffee, and we sit in the living room, clouds rolling by (more rain, rain, rain) reading our mail. I read your entire letter to me and then go back to pick up the articles you find for us. They are usually interesting, emotional, newsy. Then it’s moving my old body to the kitchen to make a plum coffee cake and an omelet of whatever we have (mostly spinach and cheese today). And we’ll be off into the day. Thanks, Joy, for your contribution to our swell Sunday mornings.
Lina
Living in Germany, it usually is already Sunday afternoon when this post is online. So I sit down some time in the afternoon, a cup of tea or coffee with me and preferably something baked to read through your post, open up all the articles I want to read through the week. This way I make that Sunday feeling last a little longer.
Grace
Still in my robe, I sit in the middle of the couch after tending to our sweet diabetic dog’s morning routine. She sits next me to while I read the weekly offering, sometimes she sleeps. I value this quiet time in my week with just her and I. She doesn’t judge if more links than not leave me in tears. Thank you for the Sunday post.
Rachel
Coffee, muffin, dog on my lap. Read everything from the week by you, Cup of Jo and Cupcakes and Cashmere.
Jackie
These are my 3 main blogs too!
Kayla
OMG me too – what else can I add to the rotation?
Lauren P
Getting through your lovely list of reads. Living here in New Orleans you know I instantly went to Erin Kelly’s podcast and just loved it! Two energies just keeping each other company (insert goosebumps)!
joythebaker
AAHH isn’t it so great!?
Rosanne
Your Sunday post is a weekly ritual I look forward to and enjoy every week. Usually in the afternoon while taking a break from working the Sunday crossword puzzle. Your sweet spirit of bringing joy to your readers, along with what has inspired you during the week that you want to share always brings something to me I didn’t see during the week that I want to explore. Thank you for the time you take to share your thoughts with us!
Tara
I subscribe to my favorite blogs, including yours, on Bloglovin’. I wake up each morning, skim my email for anything that needs to be opened, check my TimeHop to see the daily photos, then scroll through my blogs. Weekends are the best as I am not rushed to get through my little routine. Thank you for the gift of your words!
Leigh
I wait for my son to get settled with cars and trucks after breakfast. He’s four. (We grew up together, you and me, Joy, and you are a BOSS and a friend even though we never met except right here.) Then I pour another cup of the good coffee, brewed on weekends only, and I dive in for a little me time at an empty kitchen table. And I always find something to lift me up.
joythebaker
I’m happy for our friendship, Leigh!
Cat
I sit down on Sunday mornings with my coffee and this post. I read through your post, open links of interest in another tab and then read through them. It it a nice, quiet way to start the day.
Beth
I LOVE Sunday mornings, reading your posts! I take the time to sit with my coffee and peruse the articles (that I can take or leave) and leisurely read what you’ve filtered and found for me. It’s the first thing that I do with my life after making coffee and I sit and read for as long as it takes me. I love reading your thoughts and your recipes and enjoy the photos.. I know that if I’d meet you, I’d like you! (And I’m old enough to be your mother!) Keep going, Joy. Belated Happy Birthday! XO
Jeananne
How lovely of you to ask. It is a comforting ritual for me on Sunday morning – breakfast made, French press brewed I sit down to sift through emails, looking for yours first. I get rid of everything that doesn’t matter then open yours. I so enjoy that quiet part of my Sunday Morning along with the sun coming up and the birds chatting at each other.
BTW – you should totally get the shirt!
Thank you Joy!
Merrilee
Make coffee. While it’s brewing feed the kitties. Then couch and coffee on Sunday morning and always excited to click my Joy email notification! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, recipes, and photos. Life is all about such connections.