I’ve been making seasonal music recommendations as a way to highlight good albums and encourage my own musical exploration. Only 8 more days left to check out spring before I start the summer list.

The weekend was spent honoring a life lost. A time where we capsized against the part of life we all must face and grieved over what we could not change. In that breaking down, however, we also picked each other up and put ourselves back together into something more joyful, honest, and true.

The thing about cultivating gratitude is it doesn’t only come from commemorating or reliving happy times. In my experience, it comes from sitting with your worst moments and practicing how to reframe that ugliness into a lesson you can learn from.

Victoria Song’s article mirrors my own concerns with Apple’s new Journal app. I plan to stick with my current habit and app. Journaling is my time and intensely personal. AI and algorithms have no seat at that table as I’m chasing personal reflection, not features.

Our sunrise showed that Canada’s wildfires are still burning.

I had to be up early with the kid but I got to see this bearded iris enjoying the morning dew.