Early Morning Love Links
oh hey there. You thought I forgot about you, didn't you. I see you visiting the blog after the wedding, expecting to see something new. Well, here it is. But guess what! I'm waiting for the wedding posts until we have our professional pictures to share. In the meantime, check out #campcozad on instagram to see what a blast we had.
Instead, I'm going to talk about a few things that I've fallen in love with over the last few months (aside from my husband- I was already in love with him anyway...)
Also, it's 5am, and I'm on hour 96 of 100 hours worked in the last 10 days, so chances are this will be suuuper rambly and easily distractable. I might ignore punctuation and maybe even make up words. continue at your own risk.
1. The Hatmakers and Legacy Collective. About a year ago my dear friend Jocelyn turned me onto one of her favorite authors, who happens to write a hilarious blog, so naturally I was interested. Her name is Jen, and she's an author, mom, speaker, pastor's wife and woman of general hilarity that lives in Austin, Texas with her five kids. This spring I read Interrupted and it put into words a lot of the things I had begun to feel about people who love Jesus and how they (should) meet the needs of those around them. Grad school has turned me into a bit of a bleeding heart, but that's another post for another time. Anyway, Jen is hilarious and so is her husband Brandon, who built a church soley on the idea of doing things to love your neighbor. It's called Austin New Church and I regularly listen to their sermon podcasts. Read Barefoot Church if you want the whole story. Annnnyway, since I stalk these internet "friends" on the regular, I was thrilled to discover that they were starting a new giving community called the Legacy Collective, which focuses on establishing funds to support organizations and projects that target sustainable solutions to systemic issues. All I had to hear was "giving community" and I was all in. That meant I was invited to the launch party AT THEIR HOUSE in August, and somehow I already had that weekend off and we had about 238459823 frequent flier miles since weddings are expensive and Tres could get the time off, so we went. And it was amazing. I loved Austin and can't wait to go back and explore more. My biggest hesitation about going was that I would have to like talk to strangers and meet new people and I don't really like doing that, but wouldn't you know that the first person we met grew up going to Riverview Bible Camp. Oh hey Jesus, that's a pretty big bone you're throwing me. Within 3 months we funded our first three projects completely and have already begun isolating organizations that are helping Syrian refugees as they risk everything for a better life. Please consider joining the fun- we want travel buddies for the annual meeting next summer :)
2. To Repair the World. If you do any kind of pulic health work/ schooling and don't fall in love with Paul Farmer, there's something wrong with you. He's pretty much Superman when it comes to Global Health. Like he's literally saving the world. This book is really a collection of different speeches he's given over the last twenty or so years, most of them commencement speeches, and it's definitely worth a read. In fact, I read it on my honeymoon in freaking paradise, and I could still hardly put it down. There's something about commencement speeches in general that get to me- they're so inspiring and funny and they make me think of college and gosh if I didn't love that. I don't, however, have any recollection of the commencement speech given to us, but that's beside the point I guess. I blame Laura. It was not Paul Farmer, I can tell you that much. Go read this one and try not to want to save the world.
3. Pure Barre. Um, I actually had a pretty good feeling I was going to love this, but not enough to drive the 20 minutes to Annapolis and back just to spend far too much money on classes I couldn't quite regularly go to. So when they opened one practically right next door the week after we returned from our honeymoon and offered a grand opening special, I jumped at the opportunity, and let me tell you, I am drinking the Koolaid. I've been to about 3 classes per week and I'm surprised at how much I love realizing I'm so out of shape. It's also weird because I think what I love most about it is being back in front of a studio mirror. There's something about staring yourself down when you're pushing yourself to see exactly what you're made of that I didn't realize I was missing. but gosh it feels good. and it's really helpful when I have to come home and take a nap before nightshift because it wears. me. out. Like for reals I don't know how people do it right before they go to work. magicians or something I guess. Also, on the first day, the teacher was like, "oh you won't really sweat, it's low intensity" and I'm calling a big fat buuuulll shit on that because I hardly ever sweat when doing physical activity and let me tell you, I've never sweat more in my life. So while you'll never find me at the 6am class, please join me in the much smaller and nightshift friendly noon option. You'll drink the Koolaid too.
So that's it for now. I'm 35 minutes away from FREEEEEDOM and I might actually run out these dang hospital doors. and never come back. until Tuesday night.
Instead, I'm going to talk about a few things that I've fallen in love with over the last few months (aside from my husband- I was already in love with him anyway...)
Also, it's 5am, and I'm on hour 96 of 100 hours worked in the last 10 days, so chances are this will be suuuper rambly and easily distractable. I might ignore punctuation and maybe even make up words. continue at your own risk.
1. The Hatmakers and Legacy Collective. About a year ago my dear friend Jocelyn turned me onto one of her favorite authors, who happens to write a hilarious blog, so naturally I was interested. Her name is Jen, and she's an author, mom, speaker, pastor's wife and woman of general hilarity that lives in Austin, Texas with her five kids. This spring I read Interrupted and it put into words a lot of the things I had begun to feel about people who love Jesus and how they (should) meet the needs of those around them. Grad school has turned me into a bit of a bleeding heart, but that's another post for another time. Anyway, Jen is hilarious and so is her husband Brandon, who built a church soley on the idea of doing things to love your neighbor. It's called Austin New Church and I regularly listen to their sermon podcasts. Read Barefoot Church if you want the whole story. Annnnyway, since I stalk these internet "friends" on the regular, I was thrilled to discover that they were starting a new giving community called the Legacy Collective, which focuses on establishing funds to support organizations and projects that target sustainable solutions to systemic issues. All I had to hear was "giving community" and I was all in. That meant I was invited to the launch party AT THEIR HOUSE in August, and somehow I already had that weekend off and we had about 238459823 frequent flier miles since weddings are expensive and Tres could get the time off, so we went. And it was amazing. I loved Austin and can't wait to go back and explore more. My biggest hesitation about going was that I would have to like talk to strangers and meet new people and I don't really like doing that, but wouldn't you know that the first person we met grew up going to Riverview Bible Camp. Oh hey Jesus, that's a pretty big bone you're throwing me. Within 3 months we funded our first three projects completely and have already begun isolating organizations that are helping Syrian refugees as they risk everything for a better life. Please consider joining the fun- we want travel buddies for the annual meeting next summer :)
2. To Repair the World. If you do any kind of pulic health work/ schooling and don't fall in love with Paul Farmer, there's something wrong with you. He's pretty much Superman when it comes to Global Health. Like he's literally saving the world. This book is really a collection of different speeches he's given over the last twenty or so years, most of them commencement speeches, and it's definitely worth a read. In fact, I read it on my honeymoon in freaking paradise, and I could still hardly put it down. There's something about commencement speeches in general that get to me- they're so inspiring and funny and they make me think of college and gosh if I didn't love that. I don't, however, have any recollection of the commencement speech given to us, but that's beside the point I guess. I blame Laura. It was not Paul Farmer, I can tell you that much. Go read this one and try not to want to save the world.
3. Pure Barre. Um, I actually had a pretty good feeling I was going to love this, but not enough to drive the 20 minutes to Annapolis and back just to spend far too much money on classes I couldn't quite regularly go to. So when they opened one practically right next door the week after we returned from our honeymoon and offered a grand opening special, I jumped at the opportunity, and let me tell you, I am drinking the Koolaid. I've been to about 3 classes per week and I'm surprised at how much I love realizing I'm so out of shape. It's also weird because I think what I love most about it is being back in front of a studio mirror. There's something about staring yourself down when you're pushing yourself to see exactly what you're made of that I didn't realize I was missing. but gosh it feels good. and it's really helpful when I have to come home and take a nap before nightshift because it wears. me. out. Like for reals I don't know how people do it right before they go to work. magicians or something I guess. Also, on the first day, the teacher was like, "oh you won't really sweat, it's low intensity" and I'm calling a big fat buuuulll shit on that because I hardly ever sweat when doing physical activity and let me tell you, I've never sweat more in my life. So while you'll never find me at the 6am class, please join me in the much smaller and nightshift friendly noon option. You'll drink the Koolaid too.
So that's it for now. I'm 35 minutes away from FREEEEEDOM and I might actually run out these dang hospital doors. and never come back. until Tuesday night.
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