This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen Rider.

Hey friends, in this episode I am chatting with contributing writer Catherine Willis

Percy where as always we're talking about what we wrote this week.

Catherine wrote about friendships why they're important to us why we need to take the time for them even when life is busy,

small ways we can cultivate them, or talking using our phones to send Amy Polar gifts people,

and how all the internet for all its

boyables can also be a really beautiful breathing ground for cultivating

some of our best friends. We also park a bit on the legacy of Rachel Held Evans and how our collective

mourning of our loss of her has shown us blatantly and beautifully how we really can

know each other through the internet.

We are all better because of her life and she is indeed sorely missed.

This week I wrote a good list.

It's been quite a while since I personally shared four little

things currently making everything better. If you're new here, it's a series we

visit from time to time both here on the podcast and on the blog. So in this

conversation, I'm talking more about the little habits that are helping me stay afloat

during the crazy busyness of May, because isn't May just nuts you guys?

These tiny little habits serve as anchors in our chaotic days, which is all

the more reason we should hold tight to them.

And then in the third segment, I talk with my friend Stephanie Langford who is currently still in Guatemala as we

answer once more one of your travel questions. Okay let's get right into it.

Here's Catherine starting us off with the vital importance of friendships.

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