Share Four Somethings - June 2023

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How is it possible that it's near the end of June already? It feels like the month slipped by while I was distracted, but I'm not sure with what! In any case, it's time to share Something I Loved, Something I Read, Something I Learned and Something I Ate and I hope I can remember and come up with some decent answers. Maybe that means it will be a short post?

Something Loved

We enjoyed two very special weekends recently. Our daughter and her boyfriend came for a visit on the second weekend in June and it was such a treat to have them here! We did a little bit of exploring, a lot of eating out, and even played some Scrabble. Then on the Father's Day weekend, hubby and I went on an exploring trip on the Saturday, and on the Sunday our son and his family treated us to a delicious dinner and we did a little exploring with them as well. 

I'd hoped that we might be able to go away next weekend, but that isn't working out. We do have a long weekend trip to Maryland to look forward to in August though.

Something Read

Here are the books I'm currently reading:

Man of Shadow and Mist by Michelle Griep

A Perilous Perspective by Anna Lee Huber

Composition As Conversation by Heather M. Hoover

   

My two most recent reviews are Beneath A Peaceful Moon by Debby Lee and an audiobook, A Man With One of Those Faces by Caimh McDonnell. I'm trying something new on my book blog―I'm calling it Book Review Bulletin, and it's a monthly link-up for review posts. I'm just starting out with this project, and will see how it goes! The Book Review Bulletin for July will open on June 28th (yes, a couple days before the beginning of July!), and I hope you'll drop by and share a review or two. 

As always, all the rest of my reading news is at Just A Second if you want to see what I've recently reviewed and what I have coming up.

Something Learned

I often learn new things or start pondering things as I write articles from prompts or visit other bloggers in link parties. That's often the purpose of the link-ups, right? Here's an example: I often am critical of myself for being lazy, so when I happened upon an article at Soul Survival called Laziness, Self-Esteem & New Habits, it gave me some new perspective on what laziness really is and what causes it.

While writing my Wednesday Quotes article this week, I learned about the history of the selfie, and found myself rethinking my views on selfies a little bit as well. You can take a look at the quotes I collected and my thinking out loud about them here: WQ - The Modern Self-Portrait

With the selfie, a photographer has finally found his place in a photograph. ~Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes - they're not part of the good picture you want. ~Andy Warhol

Something On My Plate

Oh dear, I failed completely in this department in June! I didn't do a whole lot of cooking myself, it seems, and didn't really try anything very new. We ate very well indeed, as we visited some great restaurants, but not once did I take a picture. Well, I took this one just to prove to our son that we ate at a restaurant that shared his name:

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