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    On what’s in Harrisburg

    May 21, 2019

    A croissant tried to convince me to move to NYC this morning. Listen. I love croissants. I loved croissants when I was a kid using the edge of a spoon to pop them out of

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    • This lantern fest was beautiful and chaotic, breathtaking and swift. Basically exactly like real life.
    • An especially lovely field trip to work not-from-home this morning.
    • It was more of a multiple layers beach vacation than a multiple swimsuits beach vacation. We came to that conclusion on the first day when we lasted all of five minutes on the actual beach due to whipping wind and sideways sand. The forecast looked fairly grim, so we set our expectations accordingly. But then, over and over again, the sun came out. Not for long. Not with much warmth. But it was the sun, the most capricious of vacation guests. I think if we had been expecting warmth and sunshine for all four days, we would have been disappointed with the weather we had. But since we were expecting the weather to be less-than-ideal, every time the sun came out, it felt like a gift. I don’t think the secret to life is lowering your expectations. But I do think there’s something to be said for putting expectations in their place and welcoming whatever comes as a gift, whether it’s cold gray wind or hot pink sunsets. It leaves so much more space to enjoy what you do have instead of wishing for what you thought you’d have. All of that to say, it was a great few days away with my mom. And I’m glad the weather was exactly the way it was—even when I wasn’t so glad for it in the moment.
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    • Hello it’s Monday again and this time vacation feels like it was a decade ago but I’m still dreaming about this magical place and my favorite week of every year.
    • Currently in the denial stage of post-vacation, in which all I want to do is look at pictures and pretend we’re not home yet. It’s going well so far!

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