Hello sweet friends.
This might find some of you enjoying an all-American holiday weekend, and if that is the case… I hope you’re feeling relaxed and easy and certainly not following the man in the White House on Twitter. May your watermelon be chilled. May your pool be heated. May your fireworks display have free parking. May we all enjoy this weekend in America despite the 24-hour news cycle.
I’ve been in a self-imposed friend craft-camp this week. You know, just really enjoying the summer dying fabrics and making flowers out of paper and this weekend I need to move my body around (hopefully in a pool) for a change of pace.
I hope this weekend brings you what you need. We’re in the middle of summer. Let’s enjoy it before it slips through our fingers.
Here’s some of this and some of that according to the Internet:
โข Place and perspective: A Doctor’s View of Obamacare and Trumpcare from Rural Georgia.
โข I’m not sorry I can’t (read: WON’T) make myself smaller so you feel more comfortable, dude. I tried that once and I could never be small enough. Boy, byeee. I Finally Accepted Being An Intimidating Woman.
โข Here’s a real life positive thing to think about: A sweet baby angel umpire saved a woman on a bridge. Also I hope this woman gets the help she needs.
โข When food is process and rewarding ritual and not just numbers.
โข Ok so… we have to re-teach ourselves how to sleep, there’s a workout class that combines yoga with dance and cathartic shouting, and I refuse to consider that fecal transplants are a thing that sane people do. The Wellness Epidemic. It’s the new language isn’t it? My advice: don’t skimp on the butter, do some yoga or go for a walk, and cathartic shout at your boyfriend once a month because you need to and he likely needs a kick in the pants. There, done.
โข I spent the last few days in a craft cave (my dining room) with my friend Suzonne. We made paper flowers and shibori dyed loads of fabric. If you’re feeling crafty here are two inspiration tutorials: Paper Icelandic Poppies on Design Sponge and Shibori Dye on HonestlyWTF.
โข For when you have peaches and lemons and feel very thirsty: Peach and Cardamom Lemonade. I’ll be honest in letting you know that this holiday weekend I’m very interested in Homemade Chili Cheese Dogs.
โข I can vouch for these ribs made in the oven! Thank you, TheKitchn!
โข The borrowed book I’ll be taking on my next plane ride: Hold Still: a memoir with photographs by Sally Mann.
โข Remember this song? Boys II Men: Water Runs Dry. I think this album taught me about love and relationships. Well Boys II Men and Alanis Morissette. Don’t worry… I’m mostly ok.
โข A very beautiful tabletop splurge. For ambiance, v v v v v v important ambiance. Handmade navy taper candles from Food52.
โข This brush on sunblock is going in my travel bag.
Pull on the swimsuit and enjoy the pool. Happy Sunday!
xo Joy
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I did that painting of Tron for you and I love it whenever I get a glimpse of it in your home. You have a beautiful gallery wall and I’m stoked that small gift made it’s way up there.
You would have to be sound asleep since November to be able to ignore the disgraceful chaos we have in our current administration. Joy, please don’t ever stop sharing what’s on your mind!
oh, my god…. I liked ” I Finally Accepted Being An Intimidating Woman” so much!!!
I’m going through a really tough “self diminishing” phase… covered in love from the other side.
And it is incredible how we can really work ourself into whatever the other think of us. And how we can cut and trim our beautiful borders until becoming an unrecognizable piece of paper for the others to confortably pin us on their fucking refrigerators.
…. god, I’m mad…..
Thanks, Jo.
BoyzIImen and Alanis were my life force during formative boy discovery years. So glad someone can relate! Have you heard they’re making Jagged Little Pill into a musical??
As an Irish healthcare professional working for the National Health Service in London, it breaks my heart that people in a developed country like the USA don’t have easy access to good healthcare. Thank you for sharing that article.
Your bit of wisdom about wellness is my entire truth right now. Today’s case-in-point: slept in, ate cheese for breakfast, went to yoga (eventually), and came home for popsicles. So PREACH ON.
Joy, I’ve loved many of your recipes, I own all of your books, usually I like your let it be sunday. I just wish you could for go anything political. I like the President and I see the good that he has done. I believe in the good he will do; I know this means we would never really be friends, but as a committed reader, I just want to say: I get turned off by your anti President comments, while knowing you’re certainly entitled. It is hard, isn’t it, to understand how the other side feels the way they do.
I totally agree with this comment. I love your blog and have been reading for a long time. Your “Let It Be Sunday” posts are filled with so many great links and recipes….but I could do without the bashing the President link that seems be included every week
I support the political posts and cheer on your concern about an unqualified President who has proven to be unfit for the office by many who are quite qualified to say so. Any woman who supports such a man should be ashamed. Jane if you have seen any good the President has done, I really wonder if you are getting spoon fed bogus news from Fox.
Regardless of the content of your political posts Joy, I do hope you continue to share your political voice. We are are all here on this blog because we are passionate about food. We live in such a divided country,why not let our shared interests allow us to share our view points and learn from each other? I enjoy the variety of topics these posts cover, and I think leaving out politics would be a shame, as it is impossible (and detrimental) to ignore.
Indeed very impossible to ignore.
All so well said and I am in the same zone. Thanks for sharing and have an enjoyable 4th of July. Best to you. Teresa
I love that article about being an intimidating woman. As a 6’1″ tall woman who “had [her] shit together” early on, it’s something I struggled with for a while, especially while dating. It gives me pause to think that we’re made to feel less than for being successful. Hm. Anyway, I was wondering if you had any insight on something in particular: staying fit while concocting all sorts of delicious recipes. I appreciate that you don’t really have a lot to say about body image or the like on your blog, because truly what size you are really DOESN’T matter, but I was still curious.
Boyz II Men… swoon! Always. And thank you for the sunblock tip- I am fair-skinned and always looking for a better sunblock. Totally going to try this out.
Joy! A few weeks ago in London I was looking at that Sally Mann book thinking it was beautiful and I should get it sometime. Today I remembered it, only the name of the book and the author had just flown out of my head, I couldn’t remember at all or enough to even Google it. Then here I come, and here it is! One of life’s little happy coincidences.
hi joy — always grateful for these posts. you bring light into this oftentimes dark place known as the internet. I noticed a paper magnolia up there with the poppies. could you point me toward those directions, or did that come from your brain? xo
I have been looking for a Colette quote which relates to the intimidating women article, and darned if I can find it – was from one of her novels, as I recall. To the effect that strong women represent – to some men – the threat of homosexuality. That is to say, for example, that if certain men are attracted to clearly strong, assertive, intelligent women, those men may feel gender challenged to an uncomfortable degree. So, if there are any French lit majors reading Joy’s blog and see this, hope you can help find that quotation as it summarizes the whole strong-woman thing in inimitable Colette fashion!
I always look forward to your Sunday posts! Love your “wellness” advice ;)
That ‘intimidating thing”, who wants a partner that is intimidated by strong character and the moral fiber to be who you are? It also kinda is a bonus in the working world (at least in the industry I worked in). Keep being yourself, no one else will ever do it better than you.
Ha! Great links this week… Just a minor comment… I have to say that as a doctor, fecal transplants are very useful for patients with chronic infectious diarrhoea as they allow good bacteria from a healthy gut to grow and overtake the bad bacteria that is colonising the unhealthy one. However, these are the ONLY circumstances I would recommend them for! If your medical doctor says you need one, you’ll probably be too ill to care and will do anything to get better, if anyone other than a registered doctor suggests it, just walk away, you don’t need it!
Another fecal transplant tidbit but there has been studies where fecal transplants were given to children with autism and their symptoms improved because research has shown a connection between gut bacteria and neurological issues. Iโm studying nutrition and I got interested in this because a fellow classmates son had severe autism and they were trying various diet therapies while part of a program at UC Davis.
I’m all wrong about fecal transplants… good to know!
What I came to say. For patients with persistent c.diff, a fecal transplant can be literally lifesaving! For random woo-woo.. yeah, no.
I was going to make this point, but a doctor beat me to it! This is actually one of the things that the wellness trend does that pisses me off the most- they get pseudo and real science all mixed up in the eyes of the public.
Happy Sunday, Joy! These paper flowers are so cool. Thank you for always keeping us informed too. I always enjoy your Sunday picks! Have a wonderful holiday! <3
Such great links!!
Rebecca
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“Consider your intimidation the best fuckboy filter on the planet.” Amen! Once I went on a date with a guy. I told him a bit about my life and he told me I seemed to be an independent woman, raising an eyebrow. But the cherry on top of the cake was that there was a gay couple sitting nearby and he, homophobic prick that he was, had A LOT to say about them. I listening for a minute before getting up and telling him why I was leaving right that moment. He told me he’d have never thought I was one of those difficult women by looking at me. I don’t know if being a difficult woman means having opinions and not being afraid to share them or not wanting to waste my time with someone so hateful, but I didn’t ask. He then told my friend he wanted nothing to do with me because I didn’t know when to shut up and keep my opinions to myself. Oh boy! Any man who needs to make a woman feel smaller to feed his ego isn’t worth a damn.
That piece on intimidating women is spot-on. Thanks for pointing it out. The long-term wisdom doesn’t always assuage the short-term disappointment of, say, not having a date for the prom. But being “intimidating” as a filter against jerks is very true.