Hello 2020. I’m grateful you’re here.
I am already pumped for all that’s coming in 2020.
It’s going to be an AMAZING year, I can feel it.
But before we get too far into 2020, I want to I want to take a minute to record some favorites from 2019.
So here are some of the books, movies, songs and moments that captured my heart and widened my thinking in 2019.
2019 Favorites: Books
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
Rabbit: A Memoir by Patricia Williams
On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
Educated by Tara Westover
Freckled: A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii by T.W. Neal
Leaving Church by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Holy Envy by Barbara Taylor Bradford
The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
2019 Favorites: Songs
2019 Favorites: Movies
The Sun is Also A Star
This Beautiful Fantastic
Avengers: Endgame (Obviously)
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Little Women
2019 Favorites: Podcasts
White Lies
The 1619 Podcast
Dolly Parton’s America
Ear Hustle
DuoLingo Podcast
2019 Favorites: Experiences
Helping to Lead a Hike + Yoga Retreat
Honoring My Mother-in-Law’s Life
Living Near My Sister
Walking from Logrono to Burgos
Want to see more favorites (mostly books) from past years? Here’s 2009, 2012, 2013, 2017, and 2018.
Keep up your blog. I also read Educated and was profoundly affected by it. I just saw movie “Little Women”. I’m also fan of Jane Austen. Movies of classics hopefully would encourage people to read. My father was a reader, Chinese and English.