Feast and Assets
Listen | Watch | Eat | Read | Play
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🎧 Listen
I enjoyed this podcast episode from John Mark Comer Teachings archives - Unanswered Prayer. What are you listening to lately?
📺 Watch
We watched Doctor Strange. Conversation starters: control, time, mortality, sacrifice, loss, acceptance, and more! What are you currently watching?
🥗 Eat
This week we feasted! Some of these meals were technically from the previous week, but I didn’t have time to add them to the last substack post. We enjoyed a late lunch with our old community group (the host fam is back in the Bay from living in Ireland and Austin) and a friend who is back visiting from TN. We headed straight to a non-traditional Lunar New Year supper at church - taco night! The next day, we headed out to SF for lunch with my MIL. We had dim sum from Sunshine Wheatfield Dim Sum. Then my parents and brother made a feast of 10(?) dishes for dinner. Any good eats lately?
📚 Read
Here’s how “reading” looked for me this past week:
Finished one audiobook:
It’s Not Hysteria by Dr. Karen Tang
Started and finished one audiobook:
Sacred Pace by Terry Looper
Unsettling Truths by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
Continuing one ebook:
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onajli Q. Raúf
Started one audiobook:
Gazing at God by Sharon Hodde Miller
The Hidden Peace by Joel Muddamalle
I didn’t create a curated reading list this year. I’m choosing to slow down and reflect on the books as I read them. Since many of the recommendations were made, the list is a little random. I’m writing brief reviews mainly for my own memory, and I’m tracking everything in The StoryGraph. If you’d like my thoughts on a particular book, just ask. The list includes fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, middle grade, and more.
🎲 Play
Our friends invited us over for dinner. After dinner, they taught us how to play Nana and Cover Your Assets. We had a stop time because it was getting late, but we ended up playing for another hour+ after that time. When we were getting ready to leave, the fourth grader asked, “Can we do this again sometime?” 🥹 It was a fun time. (If you want the non-import version of Nana, you can get Trio.
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