Here are a few of my favorites right now:<\/p>\n
What I appreciate this week:<\/strong><\/p>\n Umcka Cold Care<\/a> – <\/strong>almost everyone I know has been or is sick right now. As soon as I feel the first bits of a sore throat or such, I start up with it and about 80% of the time it keeps the cold from coming on. Once again it is saving me from feeling horrible.<\/p>\n What I am listening to:<\/strong><\/p>\n I’m working on an Autumn playlist and what I keep on replay this week is 85<\/a> by Andy Grammar. It reminds me that today is not just another day. It is the day.<\/p>\n What I am reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n Catching up on New York Times magazines. I keep them in a stack for rainy weeks like this one, and while one or the other can be a bit more political and depressing, there is usually something uplifting.<\/p>\n The quote that sums it up for me in the now:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAttention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.\u201d — Simone Weil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are a few of my favorites right now: What I appreciate this week: Umcka Cold Care – almost everyone I know has been or is sick right now. As soon as I feel the first bits of a sore throat or such, I start up with it and about 80% of the time it … Continue reading “These are a few of my favorite things (wk4)”<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9fbjV-39","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tracyleighton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}