This week has been a bit of a struggle. I didn’t feel well at the beginning of the week and have been slow to recover. So this week’s theme is mostly self care.<\/p>\n
Here are a few of my favorites right now:<\/p>\n
What I (appreciate \/ cherish \/ miss \/ added) this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n I used to have this amazing white jacket. It was made of cotton and was given to me by a wonderful friend. I used to wear it whenever I was sick. When I felt poorly this week, I went to find it and it was gone.<\/p>\n I have the memory of it but I miss the physical comfort of the warm soft cotton wrapped around me from neck to thigh keeping me warm while I heal.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What I am listening to:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bird and the Bee<\/a> – <\/strong>just lovely. Different, upbeat and helps me wake up in the morning when I’d rather stay in bed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What I am reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Part of sustainability, to me, is local resources. Losing local bookstores has been a horror for me. The closest “complete” bookstore I adore is Bookshop Santa Cruz<\/a> and they have a lovely Winter Reading program that I am participating in. I’ve picked four books and will be reading them for the next two and a half months.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The quote that sums it up for me in the now:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Sometimes you are sick, just because you are sick” — my therapist, lovingly reminding me that not everything in life is a lesson. Sometimes it’s just what happens.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week has been a bit of a struggle. I didn’t feel well at the beginning of the week and have been slow to recover. So this week’s theme is mostly self care. Here are a few of my favorites right now: What I (appreciate \/ cherish \/ miss \/ added) this week: I used … Continue reading “These are a few of my favorite things (wk3)”<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-34","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}