Today I am joining up with Jen from My Joyful Life for the Currently post. For March, Jen is asking what we are loving, craving, pinning, planning, and appreciating.
This month I am loving that the temperatures are getting warmer, slowly, but surely. I am not a fan of hot weather but I am also not a fan of super cold weather and this winter the weather was terribly, dangerously cold. I can not wait for the weather to warm up at least a little bit but not too much because I am still loving being curled up under my blanket with my warm rice packs while reading.
I am also loving my latest read, Grandma Ruth Doesn’t Go to Funerals by Sharon Mondragon.
It is very cozy and fun, with lovable characters. It was a nice surprise because I am never sure what I am going to get when I pick up a book I see a lot of people recommending on social media.
Craving
I am craving more peace in the news these days. I am craving being able to go on Facebook and not seeing everyone arguing over politics and politicians who do not care about us. I am craving an awakening where people realize that all politicians, no matter their party, are all about power.
They are all about keeping us at each other’s throats so they can continue to maintain that power. Most of them do not care about how much your groceries are costing you or how much you are struggling to make ends meet. They pretend they do so they can do their best to make the other party look bad (go back to the power thing), but in the end, all they are going to do is tell you what they will do without actually doing it.
That’s as political as I am going to get on this blog, so do not worry that I am going to go political all of a sudden. Nop.e Not at all. I prefer to just ramble about books and old movies and protect my peace in this space. Thank you very much.
Pinning
If we are talking about Pinterest pinning, I just got back into Pinterest again and have been pinning some of my posts but also saving vintage books I want to read. Those books include cozy mysteries, general fiction, and romances.
I can say I judge a book by it’s cover in these instances because if I looks like it might be cozy and clean, I pin it.
I am also pinning ideas for journaling because I have got back into some journaling again. I am not journaling as often or as extensively as I used to but I am having fun with designing a reading/watching journal and a junk journal.
Do you journal at all?
Planning
Right now I am planning the last three months of homeschool for my kids.
My son is in his senior year so I am a bit overwhelmed and nervous with that, but he is attending a technical school and getting a foundation for future employment so that helps calm me some.
A fun course I am planning for these last three (what??! Three??!) months is a film study course. We are going to watch some classic films, and he will write a bit about each one, sharing what he thought about it. So far, on our list to watch is:
The Stranger (1946)
Citizen Kane (of course)
The Third Man (1949)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
and
L.A. Confidential (1997)
What movies would you add to the list?
I am also planning a course on Shakespeare and we will probably read King Lear later this month and into April.
Appreciating
I am currently appreciating people who support my writing by telling me they read my books or buying my books or even selling my books in their stores.
I am also appreciating books in general. They are a wonderful escape from life these days. I love to be able to curl up with one and just lose myself inside it, which is why I often choose more lighthearted books or light mysteries.
How about you? What are loving, craving, pinning, planning, and appreciating currently?
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I’m all about cozy reads too! And that film study course sounds really great!
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cozy reads is what gets me through life these days!
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Congratulations to having a senior! Exciting times for all of you, to be sure! Thanks for a good book recommendation…I always appreciate those!
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I just finished Bright Young Women so I need something really light. I am just disgusted with what’s going on in our country…it’s exactly like you said. Politicians want only to be re-elected and don’t care at all for their constituents. I do think there may be one or two but not many more than that. I have been pinning ice breakers for my mini retreat, but I don’t do much pinning these days. Pinterest seems to so full of ads lately. Now that I have my presentation written, I need to get busy planning a trip with my youngest this year. And, as I’m writing this, the wind is howling, and it’s snowing. I love winter, but I’m so over this one. That cold just knocked it right out of me!
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I love to junk journal also! I can fit it in on days when my hands have some stre
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some strength. Obviously not tonight! Lol.
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I am loving my dance class, craving strawberry shortcake as well as world peace, but I am totally realistic about which I am likely to get first, pinning recipes, planning how I use my time, and appreciating my family and friends. 💖💐
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Loving books, craving cheesecake, pinning nothing, planning to write a post, appreciating family
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Lovely list! And I just started this pinning thing again but I don’t know I’ll do it that much.
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Loving – my cats. Obviously. Even more important at the moment, though, because they calm me down.
Craving – yes, peace, not just in the news or on social media, but it would be a nice start.
Pinning – I don’t use Pinterest at all.
Planning – I’m working on my improving my attention span again.
Appreciating – Supportive and encouraging people!
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Oh gosh…I need to work on my attention span too. I was just telling my husband how bad I am at —
Anyhow, I agree about the cats and my pets in general. I need that calming down a lot.
I didn’t use to pin at all but recently found out how much fun it can be. Maybe a bit pointless at times, though. 🙂
The peace I would just like to have overall. I feel like a buzzing butterfly who is always behind most of the time. Behind on what? I couldn’t even tell you but then I could and it would all be stuff that does NOT matter. *facepalm*
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It may be cynical but I always remind my boys and my family and my friends that our government (and really all world governments) were created BY the rich FOR the rich.
My oldest did a semester of film study too; I found a really cute open ended journal on Amazon specifically for film study and let him pick the movies he wanted to watch (to a certain extent; they had to have final approval from me!). It was a lot of fun.
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Oh! I want to find that journal. Do you remember what it was called.
And I am cynical person ….sadly or not. Ha!
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I think it was just called Film Study by it’s by Sarah Janisse Brown. We used SO many of her journals, workbooks and activity books.
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Thank you!!
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