This week is Christine’s and my 25th wedding anniversary. We’ve been sharing things that make our relationship thrive. We hope some of them are useful to you. If you aren’t in a long-term relationship or looking for one, thanks for putting up with us this week.
You and your partner are physical beings. Good physical touch helps you thrive and bond and stay together. So hug each other, kiss each other, hold hands, have sex. You are not merely team members or friends. You are lovers. Love deeply, physically, in a thousand different ways. (I’m exaggerating. There are, like, 10 different ways. Do those.)
The flip side
Nobody likes all the touch all the time. Become a student of the physical affection that your partner wants – what, how, when, how often. Let your touches a become a desirable gift.
Next week’s guest author is Lyndsay Lucero (scroll down). She spent 15 years designing easy, engaging user experiences for the world’s most influential brands. Then she decided it was time to fix backpacks. She knew nothing about textiles, fashion or manufacturing – and very little about sewing – but she spent every evening and weekend for two years figuring it out. The result is the Baxley Rolltop backpack.
I ‘met’ Lyndsay through a course we both took last year. I immediately liked her sustainable way of working. I liked her obsession with details. (She sent me her posts twice this week because she thought the first time wasn’t quite right.) I liked her font choices. Most of all I liked her writing. I signed up for her newsletter even though I don’t need a backpack right now.
Next week she will be sharing really useful thoughts on sustainability, work, more than work, getting started and celebration. Hooray!
Something for the weekend
Maybe not this weekend, but sometime, stay at one of Serena’s places. She has created a perfect secluded little spot just outside Llanberis. We loved our time there this week.
One musical thing Christine and I agree on 100% is Red Hot Chili Peppers. We first heard this song on a day out together. I dropped the kids at school, bought the CD at Asda and we headed into the countryside with this blasting from the speakers of the old Saab. It was a good day.
The Memory of TREE playlist – every song from every email:
