A great snack all year long - peanuts! In the summer, fall, winter, or spring snick snack on some peanuts. More importantly, today is a great day for a peanut snack!

The Weekly Poll Results! 🎈

This summer was full of adventures and I really can't believe how quickly it all flew by! I had adventures abroad, cross country, to the mountains, to the beach, and of course with great friends. What is the ideal type of adventure? Beach, city travel, hiking, cruise ship travel? It seems like the winner is TRAVELING THE WORLD! So much to see, so much to do!

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In The Headlines! 

• A Greek shipping company changed its route to help protect sperm whales because they are endangered! That's def the right move! Read more here.

   

• Over the last century, the forests in Norway have tripled in size! Norway is beautiful and so are their forests! Read more here.

• Research has shown that going for a walk while chatting with a friend is good for your mental well-being! Go on that walk with a friend OR call a friend on your next week! Read more here!

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Friendly Reminders and Affirmations

• Speak up for what you need. No one else will do that for you.

   

• Being vulnerable is powerful. Don't be vulnerable to just be vulnerable - be intentional with it.

   

• Don't always have a plan - leave room some mysterious and unknowns to enter your life.

Alex's Book, Show, and Music Corner

• Couples Therapy: I have been watching this on Showtime and it was such a fascinating show! It was a docu series about couples in therapy. You would watch 4-5 couples every season go through couples therapy and it was so interesting to see the dynamics within the relationship and with the therapist too. Highly recommend.

What's Alex Working On?

Conversations with My Thoughts

Summer 2024

In August, the sun begins to set on summer. As the sun begins its descent into fall, there is a tension in the air to squeeze in all those last summer moments. Even as the day is concluding, the fun doesn’t wind down, it can’t - it is summer after all! As I am running around hitting my “lasts of summer” I get that sensation of a kid with a head rush from laughing a little too hard and playing like it was their job, like it is their purpose in life. Amidst those adventures, I acquired a variety of bruises, scraps, mosquito bites, and burns but, I don’t mind - it was in the name of fun and summer. My body clearly tells a story of a summer lived right. 

As I’m catching my breath while still playing, September begins. It is like a parent is calling me inside for the evening because it is getting dark and it’s dinner time. It is time to put the games away, eat dinner, and start my homework. I plead for just five more minutes hoping that would satiate my hope for an endless summer. Those five minutes pass in a blink of an eye and I am still wishing I could stay a little longer but, that is the nature of summer. It always ends quicker than you think and I always wish I could have just a little bit more.  

It is time to put the water balloons and bathing suits away and get ready to settle in, to get cozy. To get cozy for fall even though I don’t want it just yet. As I return to what feels like the school year, I can begin to tell that this was a summer full of memories. A kind of summer that people write stories about. I know come May I will be staring at the clock like a kid in a classroom with anticipation for it to strike 3pm. The bell will ring, the cheers will fill the air, and summer will be here at last. 

This Week's Newsletter Poll!

So much adventure to be had and today, you can find some spooky adventure! It is Friday the 13th after all! To acknowledge this ~spooky~ day, this week's poll is "What is your fav thing about Friday the 13th?!" Really lean into the fun of the day!

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