food recipe: Feel Good Friday: The Songs We Can't Help But Dance To, and More!

Photo credit: Stay Home, Take Care

As the reality of Covid-19 is now the new normal, we at Simply Recipes are looking for brief respites from the anxiety and uncertainty that threatens to overwhelm. We need life-affirming reminders of the power of hope, humor, and humanity in the midst of this crisis, and we're guessing you do, too! Welcome to May and Week 7 of the Feel Good Friday newsletter, wherein I share some of the more cheering or compelling things I've read or watched this week. Have you discovered something great recently? Something you read that made you smile? A video you loved? Tell me about it! Email it to me at cambria [at] simplyrecipes.com with the title "Feel Good Friday." What I Loved This Week:

Hundreds of people told writer Rachel Syme the songs they just can't help but dance to, and she put them all in this awesome Spotify playlist.
What to ask instead of "how are you?" during a pandemic.
A poem: Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale.
This was strangely satisfying to do!
Love Stay Home, Take Care, which provides activities and recommendations for taking care of yourself and others. You can offer suggestions, too!
68 bits of unsolicited advice. Loved this one: "Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don't have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems."
And finally: the easiest fruits and vegetables to grow, according to a terrible gardener. "As the novel coronavirus pandemic sends lots of people out to their yard to see what they can grow, a lot of first-timers are making the same mistake: They're listening to experts. Experts can make things grow that you can't, because they are experts. What you need is a terrible gardener to tell you what anybody can grow." As a newbie gardener myself, I've planted herbs in pots and a square foot garden with lettuces, kale, rainbow chard, broccoli, and cabbage. What about you?

Wishing you a healthy, hopeful weekend. -Cambria Product and Lifestyle Director

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Feel Good Friday: The Songs We Can’t Help But Dance To, and More!

Photo credit: Stay Home, Take Care

Welcome to May and Week 7 of the Feel Good Friday newsletter, wherein I share some of the more cheering or compelling things I’ve read or watched this week.

Have you discovered something great recently? Something you read that made you smile? A video you loved? Tell me about it! Email it to me at cambria [at] simplyrecipes.com with the title “Feel Good Friday.”

What I Loved This Week:

Hundreds of people told writer Rachel Syme the songs they just can’t help but dance to, and she put them all in this awesome Spotify playlist.
What to ask instead of “how are you?” during a pandemic.
A poem: Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale.
This was strangely satisfying to do!
Love Stay Home, Take Care, which provides activities and recommendations for taking care of yourself and others. You can offer suggestions, too!
68 bits of unsolicited advice. Loved this one: “Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don't have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.”
And finally: the easiest fruits and vegetables to grow, according to a terrible gardener. “As the novel coronavirus pandemic sends lots of people out to their yard to see what they can grow, a lot of first-timers are making the same mistake: They're listening to experts. Experts can make things grow that you can't, because they are experts. What you need is a terrible gardener to tell you what anybody can grow.” As a newbie gardener myself, I’ve planted herbs in pots and a square foot garden with lettuces, kale, rainbow chard, broccoli, and cabbage. What about you?