Let It Be Sunday, 298!

I’m in catch up mode but, hugs hugs hugs for speaking what is needing to be heard and remembered. Thank you for your graciousness and the heart you pour into what you share. I hope you get a deep, long hug from someone in your circle (maybe while you were in TX!)

I´m a bit late leaving a comment, I just read your last two Sunday postings and I´m so sorry to hear that the polarisation of your country also has reached the beautiful, friendly space you´ve created. I live in Norway and I follow your country´s politics closely from afar. I´ve also followed your lovely website for many years. You bring me so much joy, I love your writing and your openess and your boundless humanity. Thank you so much for all you´ve offered us so far. Big hugs.

Yes, Yaara! I look forward to your thoughtful collection of links each week and I so appreciate your presence and how you show up here.

We’re all wired to hold onto negative comments more than positive ones, so let me add to the sea of positive ones: I look forward to coming to the blog every Sunday. I know that there’s a lot of work and thought that goes into the recipes and posts on this site, and I have nothing but heartfelt thanks to you Joy for making this warm space open to all. Keep doing you!

We’re all different. We’re all the same. We can come together here for your gracious words and sweet posts (food included!!). This life is SO hard sometimes. We need each other. There’s no time for divisiveness. Love our neighbors…we’ll be the better for it.

Your blog is a treasure. Love always!

Hi Joy – I, too, am appalled at the harsh language and vitriol that lives in comment sections these days. It seems no blog is safe, no social media post is safe and everyone wants the platform to speak their mind no matter what comes out. In an effort to understand I went back and re-read the comments on your Sunday post last week. Wow. From a very thoughtful dissenting comment met with accusations of homophobia, racism and xenophobia to a commenter on a young lady’s post telling her she “lost her binkie” in the most condescending tone possible to people saying they will no longer support you for your political views and this should just be a food blog. It’s all very…icky. I find that all people need to be held to a standard of decency regardless of their opinion. Freedom of speech is wonderful. You can say what you want, you can do what you want but that does not mean it goes without consequence. I think this election proves that very clearly. In the spirit of full transparency, I am a registered Republican and have not voted for a President in the last 2 elections. I really fall more in the independent category with conservative leanings. Anyways, what I hope that people will come to understand is that there are people who genuinely feel that Democrats do not represent their beliefs and also really struggle with where the Republican party has gone in recent years. If anything, these years have allowed for a thorough examination of what I hold to be dear and true. There is clearly a deep, deep divide in our country and my thoughts on how we got here are not for this comment section. All this to say that everyone on all sides needs to take a mirror and examine their hearts. If anything parenthood has taught me, it’s that you can’t dictate another human being. You can try to teach them what you believe and guide their decisions based on the foundation that you believe is right, but submission to your thoughts? Nope. Free will is real and people are free and should be free to make their own decisions. Should there be discourse on what we believe in an effort to come to a common ground or some semblance of understanding? Of course! Blatant disrespect, name calling, labeling, divisive, hateful language should be called out and addressed. No matter who it comes from. I feel like this is a safe space to share my thoughts and for that, Joy, I am appreciative. Keep on, keeping on and your recipes and insight really bring a light in the darkness.