I’m just grateful for good books, especially ones that include children as their audience. Katherine Rundell’s writing creates fantastical realms, surfacing the magic that’s really here in the world—faith, hope, love, conviction, risk, curiosity, gumption. This series has such a big heart. It’s glad and fierce, and feels pain but beats with the kind of joy that overthrows evil.
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Mic and I had a date day at the IMA Galleries. I always come away from there feeling like it was worthwhile. I also always aspire to sketch lots of things and end up only sketching a few and feeling good about even fewer of them. 😂
One sketch I felt good about this visit
We’ve enjoyed giving some more intention to our local institutions lately. For us, that’s meant buying locally just a little more—usually bread, or going ahead and getting that museum membership. Now we’ll total three of them for 2026, which is exciting! We think we’ll reap a lot of good experiences for ourselves, the kids, and all of us together.
The human creature is such a deceptively simple thing to look at. You can watch someone peel an orange or trip up a flight of stairs, and forget that inside they are strange and infinite. Take a human by the wrist and you have in your hand a piece of unending longing.
—Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures, Book 2: The Poisoned King