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Happy June, friends. I don’t know about you, but over the last week, I feel like the world around me has just come…alive.

Everywhere I look, leaves are leafing, buds are budding, and blooms are blooming.

Our world can be a stressful and anxiety-inducing place right now - but then, it always has been, hasn’t it? It’s equally true that it’s wild and wonderful and full of life - and how lucky we are, to quote the musical Hamilton, to be alive right now.

In this month’s Journal episode - now reserved for paying members of The Kettle - I’m focusing on little things that feel alive - and help ME feel alive - in the place and season we’re in.

From getting my kitchen routines back on track after the disruption of my book launch, to watching my garden grow, to starting a new fiction project (which I’ll tell you all about in the episode,) there are so many ways my world just feels ALIVE in this particular moment of time. I can’t to share them with you in the June Journal episode of The Kettle podcast. Listen here or in your favorite podcast app!