Hello friend, Liz here.
#1 Today’s “top of the fold” story is not actually a story but an announcement: I am taking a summer sabbatical from the newsletter.
You will still get a few emails from me—I actually have two phenomenal conversations I’ll be publishing, one with
about the theologians the White American Evangelical church has ignored and then another with about motherhood and the burdens black women carry, based on her newly released memoir. *starry eyes*But those will likely be the exception because I have discovered in the past few years that I need moments of no production in order to regenerate my creativity.
And these seasons of rest often lead to my most generative times as a writer.
For me, summer is the time when the kids go to camp and my garden blossoms and my sunburn turns to tan and the rec center pool glitters in our imaginations. I mean, I spend hours outside. I tromp through woo…
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