This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen Rider.

Hey friends, in this episode we have got another in our series called my good list.

A little something we do every now and then on both

the blog and podcast. We've got our usual new format here when an artist simple contributing writer

and I talk about whatever it is we wrote about during the week and that's still a thing.

That's how we roll around here 99% of the time.

But I just love our Goodlist chats so much.

I don't want to completely get rid of them.

So in this one I'm talking to my friend

Christy Purifoy. She's a former English professor turned writer and gardener and

if you're like me 30 seconds into hearing her calming voice, you'll just want to pour yourself something warm,

snuggle in with a blanket, and just let her words wash over you.

She's got a new book out called PlaceMaker, and it's all about what it means to actually

lean into your soul's desire for beauty and the need to create instead of stuffing

or ignoring it.

And then why the cultivation of good and beautiful places isn't a

retreat from the quote real world it's a response to it an answer to it a

leaning in to something even realer.

She is just fantastic.

I know you'll love her.

So in this chat, Christie shares with us her good list,

which, if you remember, is a thing, a habit, a work of art, and a philosophy.

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