This is Simple. I'm Tish Oxon writer.

Hi friends, in this episode I'm chatting with contributing writer Christine Bailey.

As always, we're talking about what we wrote about this week on the art of simple.

Christine shared with us her day in the life, and I've been excited to read this one because if you

remember she's a farmer, and I'm intrigued with how she spends her days mostly because they're so different from those of us who live in

Neighborhoods into other types of work that don't necessarily involve our literal land

She gets into what she's learned from the practice of

recording a typical day in her life, namely the value of slowing down, of

learning to embrace the chaos and our full plates, not necessarily busyness, and the beauty of, quote,

delightfully misplacing our phones. And then because this week I wrote about what books I read this past month, I'm chatting about the why, how, and what of reading more classics.

It doesn't have to be pretentious or hard. It can actually be fun with the right mindset. And then in the third

segment I'm chatting with listener Lindsey Hopkins about her work as an illustrator, hand

letterer, and small business owner.

So let's get right into it.

Here's Christine sharing what she's learning these days

about the value of slower analog work.

Christine, I've actually been really work.

Christine, I've actually been really eager to talk to you about your day and the life in particular

because I think your life is just so interesting having formally been in an urban environment and now you guys are like full on farmers.

So I would love to know more about what you learned by recording your day and the life.

So tell us more.

Yeah, well this was actually a really fun practice. I don't think I've ever done this before and it was just really neat.

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