week(s) reflection

By Nicole in Travel, week in review on February 24, 2019

“Meeting people whose life trajectories were so different from my own enlarged my way of thinking. Outside the school, arguments over refugees were raging, but the time I had spent inside the building showed me that those conversations were based on phantasms. People were debating their own fears. What I had witnessed taking place inside this school every day revealed the rhetoric for what it was: more propaganda than fact. Donald Trump appeared to believe his own assertions, but I hoped that in the years to come, more people would be able to recognize refugees for who they really were–simply the most vulnerable people on earth.”
― Helen Thorpe, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom

week(s) in review
read: The Newcomers + An American Marriage
reading: A Man Called Ove
DEN > LAX
whale watching (we saw two!)
explored Ventura + Santa Barbara
spent time with California family
completed planning for upcoming girls’ weekend (!)
date night + Xanadu
lots of reading time
mourned the loss of an amazing kiddo
volunteered at annual Children’s Hospital radiothon
therapy
signed up + started A Year of Rumi
signed up Growing the Good
many cycle workouts
missed book club due to work 😦
explored a few RiNo breweries
lots of couch time nursing cold
caught up + binge-watched OITNB + The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
wrote + posted week(s) reflection
wrote + posted this week in our kitchen: herby barley salad with mushrooms