This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen writer.

Hi friends, we're continuing our summer series called My Good List where I've asked a few

people I find interesting to chat with me about what four things in their life are making

everything better right now categorized into a thing, a habit, a work of art, and a philosophy.

In this episode, I'm chatting with Cindy Wongbrandt, who runs a wildly popular Facebook group

called Raising Children Unfundamentalist.

And she's also got a book and podcast both called Parenting Forward.

She's based in Taiwan and as she says on her website, she sees faith in the irreverent, miracles in the ordinary, and beauty in the margins.

So let's get right into it.

Here's Cindy sharing with us her good list.

Okay, Cindy, thank you for being part of our series for the summer called My Good

List that our listeners know of, but just to recap really quickly, this is four little things that are making your life a little bit better so that's a thing

a habit you've adopted a work of art and a philosophy so let's start at the top

Cindy what is a thing, big or small, in your life that's just

making life a little bit better for you right now? Well for a while I was going to

share about my hair dryer, which is the Dyson hair dryer. Oh, fancy. I feel a little elitist sharing this thing but

because it's like $400 and everyone always says why do you need a $400 hair dryer?

But you know when it first came out I just thought it was such a beautiful,

it's a beautiful machine.

Have you seen it?

I am looking it up as we're talking right now,

but I have a decent vacuum. So oh yeah I see it that's very cool looking yeah and they're really fun colors and I saw I was wanted it but it's super expensive and I couldn't justify it but for my 40th birthday my sister wanted to get me

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