1. I did some spiraling earlier this week, like I’m sure we all do. This didn’t make me feel better but it made me feel seen:
2. But there are still good things happening! Salt Lake City and Boise make pride flags official city emblems, skirting flag ban laws. We love to see a loophole closed like that.
3. This newsletter on having people over for dinner is really funny and accurate. Plus hanging out with your friends can fight the effects of all the stupid things going on out there.
I always forget that I like to host dinner parties. Always. The second there’s one on our calendar, I begin to preemptively resent it. In my head, a dinner party is this big stressful event requiring tons of prep and energy.
And that is… never true? It never is. We’re just having people over! And none of them care about anything except getting together! No one gives a shit about the food (as long as it’s edible), or the kind of wine we have, or the fact that the dogs patently need to brushed. And as long as the house is a baseline level of cleanish, no one ever notices the things that I notice about my house, like “there is dust on a bookshelf in a room that no guest would typically go in” or “there are too many sticks in the yard.”
No one cares! Everyone just wants to hang out and share a meal!