Dear community, It is always so interesting to receive your comments to my newsletter. I welcome all your thoughts and hope to receive more of them. Special shoutout to Emma D., for entering the conversation and responding in writing! No pressure, by the way, but please keep in mind that when something is being stirred inside of you by the newsletter, I would love to hear about it. One of the great loves of my life is words. So when I found the Dictionary of Obscure So

Dear community, First of all, I thoroughly enjoyed your responses to last week's newsletter. Thank you for reading, thank you for participating and thank you for allowing me a glimpse into your inner worlds. I love the invisible threads of connection and learning about new and different points of view. Last night, I went to a Super Bowl party. A friend brought a genuinely excellent cake. The kind of cake that makes a room go quiet when the box opens. She cut it into sli