issue six: a season of change

and offerings for this time of transitions

I’ve been in moving purgatory for the past two weeks and maybe I just live here now. I’m trying to tell myself to slow down, to have patience, to be at peace with less-than-perfect. Creating a home is a never-ending, everlasting process—if you’re lucky. I’ve always considered past homes transient rest stops. I’d always looked forward, towards something newer, larger, more-Architectural Digest, certain that bigger and better things are meant for me, my faith in myself and in my vision for life steady and full. But, even so, life is in session, now. I want to remind myself to savor each beating second.

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The Classifieds

Our collab with Cherry Red Coaching in the month of February was a gorgeous success, so we’re bringing you two more complimentary offerings, thanks to friends of The Good Gossip.

• The through-line in Genevieve’s conversations with Good Gossip girls was transitions—careers, mostly, but in the United States, so much depends on a red wheelbarrow our professional identity. Meredith, a multi-hyphenate leadership coach who has helped me through multiple personal and professional transitions, is crafting a Good Gossip virtual career transitions workshop on March 17th. Expect an hour of masterminding and visioning. You’ll leave with clear and energizing next steps. Register here.

  • If this workshop doesn’t align with your schedule, or if you’re interested in cultivating clarity and action from the inside out, Meredith’s next UPGRADE cohort begins in April.

• Karina, a writer and Google program manager, recently received her Reiki III certification. She’s offering complimentary, half-hour virtual healing sessions to The Good Gossip community (though she extends an invitation to donate to an organization of your choice as an energetic exchange, if it’s within your means). You can reach out at www.kmartinezcarter.com/contact.

Recommendations

• A fully device-free weekend: We’re heading to Joshua Tree in a couple weeks to go wholly offline—no phones, no laptops, and definitely no TV. I want to get at the heart of the heart of the people who matter to me and I think this is the truest path there.

• Modern Wisdom’s episode: This episode is entitled What Traits Should You Look for in a Partner? and let me tell you, I have…exactly one of those traits 🙃.

• 5 calls app: The easiest way to call your congressmen about the terrible no-good things that are happening to our country. Find the topics that are the most important to you and the app will provide a script.

  • Relatedly: book club meetings that devolve into a call to activism.

• Pleasure lists: In an age of displeasure, I’ve been scribbling these stream-of-consciousness lists to remind myself that the little things can be the big things:

  • dried mango exactly 3/4 of the way on a hike to remind us of all that nature gives us

  • salt-licked hair after a summer swim in the ocean

  • farmers market blackberries and blueberries and watching my son paint his face in hues of blue and indigo

  • holding hands with quiet inevitability when we walk around the neighborhood at dusk

  • a glass of chilled red with a girl friend and a moment of feeling as beautiful and as disgruntled towards men as we did when we were 21

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I hope The Good Gossip gives you pleasure : ) As always, let me know what you think, what you’d like to see more or less of, and send in your good gossip 💞.