Do-over

Seeing some of the more neglected corners of my home in the photos of my last post inspired me to impose some order over the weekend. Here are my do-overs for my closets. Because I believe in second chances. Don't you?

Basic Joy

Anne Bentley Waddoups

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”

— Mary Oliver

Hi, I'm Annie, enthusiast of words, development, faith, ideas, travel, design, movies, hygge, stories, and a good laugh.

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.”

— Wendell Berry

First time here?
A few posts to get you started:

Marriage
Passing the bridge of sighs
A modest proposal
A modest proposal ii
Adeste fideles

Life
Uncurbed enthusiasm
Liner notes to growing up
Sunday dinner @ 135
Playing big
In praise of late bloomers

Parenting
Triptych
Bless her heart
Paging EB White
Nine and a half
Madeleine, 16
Keystone parents
She holds these truths
Louie, Louie

Latest Instagrams:

Bonfire and nativity in the sand dunes tonight with our ward = deseret desert with dessert? (p.s. More in stories^)

Excited to finally be able to say I’m joining NYU’s Global TIES for Children to work on the Sesame Seeds project!
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Sesame Seeds is a MacArthur-funded partnership between Sesame Street and the International Rescue Committee to provide early child development support and education to millions of Syrian refugee children in the Middle East.
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At NYU Abu Dhabi I will help evaluate the program, research child development outcomes, and oversee in-country data collection in Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq. So thrilled to contribute to this terrific effort while we are here in the Middle East.
(photo credit: IRC)

Here’s to the happiest mail month of the year ♥️

A guy and his flødeboller
G knows all the best treats after living here for two years in the late 80s. Honestly pretty much everything here qualifies as a best treat, right?

Hej! We’re in Denmark 🇩🇰
We snapped up a good fare to come soak up a little cool weather and holiday hygge, attend the temple, reset my UAE visa, and take my mind off the fact that we’re missing Thanksgiving with all our beloveds. It’s a little slice of happy—every time I come here it’s like my ancestral DNA perks up and cheers. #overgrammingahead

A sweet + funny story from Sam’s letter this week:
“on Sunday as we were going around our area, we ran into two young men from our branch entering into another member's house, dressed in their church clothes and with a music speaker in hand. We asked them what they were doing. They looked at each other, wondering if they should tell us, and then said, "We made our own mission." That Sunday they'd decided to make a group to go around to visit and strengthen the members each week! "It's like your guys's mission," they said, "but we can play music while we walk, so it's cooler."

Reading:

Writing Elsewhere:

Segullah
Letters to a Parent
Nest and Launch

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