Well, my dears, this has been such a beautiful season of podcast conversations.

And oh my goodness, do I have a treat for you for our last episode of season eight?

But don't worry, we will be back in the fall.

And while our team is taking a little break in the summer from new episodes, we thought

you might still need maybe something sustaining during these summer months.

So many of us are spread too thin and frankly just kind of exhausted by all we have to

continue to bear up.

We need rest, but we might not know where to find it.

So this summer, I'm going to be sending out a blessing every Wednesday to your inbox

if that's your kind of thing.

It's a few blessy words that might offer you space to just speak honestly about how beautiful

and terrible and fun and tiring our regular days can be.

We might find just a minute to be people together in our hopes for a summer that doesn't

stress us out more.

And in the real days, it asks a little too much from us anyway.

Life is hard, but we don't have to do it alone.

So if you want to do this together, then sign up free at katbowler.com slash newsletter.

And I'll just send you some blessy kinds of stuff.

Well friends, okay.

So I have a really special episode for you today and I've been so excited about sharing

it with you.

I had the privilege, the ridiculous privilege of getting to go to London for a real in person

...