Welcome back to Tranquility DeJure, nourishing conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility.

This is episode 576.

I'm your host, Kimberly Wilson, bringing you tranquility through this medium since 2005.

Today, I wanted to give a bit more of a life lately update, simply because I've gotten a lot more

questions from you. And I also just wanted to tie it into everything that's going on in the world

right now, which is quite heartbreaking and overwhelming, and also give you some journal prompts and

some things to think about as it relates to this whole theme around life lately. So I look forward to sharing this week's podcast with you,

and I hope that you will grab pen and paper. There's also a downloadable worksheet that can be

found at Kimberlywilson.com slash 576. And I encourage you to take notes as we follow along and also to have time and space to sit

with the journaling questions that I'm going to give you at the end of this podcast.

All right.

So first off, what I'm going to talk about today is a little update on some things that I'm

reading that I think you, too, may find interesting or enticing.

A little sneak peek on what's going on inside the coterie, which is my annual program.

And, you know, just to let you know, if you're not in it, what we're doing in some of the exciting things that are happening. And, you know, just to let you know, if you're not in it, what we're doing and some of the

exciting things that are happening.

And, you know, really where a lot of my attention and time is going right now.

Why I'm obsessed with the Good Reads reading challenge.

So I got a really great question from a listener earlier this year that was like, I don't understand. Why do you do that? You know, I like to read for pleasure. And I feel like if I was tracking it, it would cause more stress. And I really liked her question because it shows how, you know, how different we all operate. And just to give a little bit of insight into the why,

what I'm working on in ballet, which was a question that came up recently, and I have a lot to

say there. I actually just got back from taking a bus from D.C.D. New York for, in one day, for a three-hour lesson with my private

teacher who I just adore, and then came back that night. So it was like how many hours in the

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