A new pair of clogs for my kitchen work. K<\/strong><\/a>logs<\/a>, with a K, to be exact.<\/p>\n I found these to be comfortable, fit both my custom and otc orthotics and make me that 1 1\/2 inches taller that makes most counters friendly to my 5’1″ stature.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What I am inspired by:<\/strong><\/p>\n Believe it or not, some darned cool vinyl paper. I wanted a cabinet to have a new look and found this lovely tile pattern<\/a> with Mediterranean colors and had a fun time tacking it up and trimming it to look close to the real thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n What I am listening to:<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s not playing music, per se, but Noislii<\/a> is an app I was turned on to by the fun folks over at Project EVO<\/a> – they send out a monthly newsletter with cool things that satisfy my “Alchemist” personality. And this app is a winner, it gives me control to create white noise from a variety of sources with a timer so that I can have concentrated time blocks to focus and work. The timer was a bit hard for me to figure out for the first 20 seconds, but after that, it was a breeze and comes with a cool fade out feature.<\/p>\n What I am reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n I think Betty Friedan<\/a> wrote “The Fountain of Age<\/a>” while in her 60s – it was published it in 1993. It’s very relevant today for the more mature person and the people that want to understand them. So far, it is an intimate and encouraging look at how to evolve while your body ages.<\/p>\n Quote that sums it up for me in the now:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Get up and move.” — attributed to… well, lots of people from Richard Simmons to me, when the kids were on the couch too long. But it is true. Moving, whether slowly or quickly, with some purpose or intentionally having no purpose is one of the best things we can do. Moving every day keeps us going and maybe even living longer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week has been a lovely one. Lots of winter rain but without harsh flooding. Great meals cooked in the kitchen. I wanted to start off the first full week of the new year by sharing with you all where I am today. So here are a few of my favorites right now: What I … Continue reading “These are a few of my favorite things (wk2)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-things","tag-favorite-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-1F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":70,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"30330469_1pair\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/30330469_1pair.jpg?resize=97%2C97&ssl=1\")