Friday Fun Flier XVI
The first exclusive post drops in two days! Plus a book that will help you get out into the world, and a news story that made me laugh
Apologies, I just realized that I only sent today’s FFF to the new exclusive list this morning. Growth is a process! Sorry to everyone who receives this twice, it won’t happen again!
The Update:
I’ve been in Costa Rica for almost two weeks now, and I just finished my second week of surf camp! The Unfamiliar Movement Project has begun. For the next five months, I’ll be traveling the world to study movements as a way of healing from this crazy year we’ve had.
The idea came to me after reading The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk. I wanted to do something extreme to shake off the dust that’s accrued on my mind as a result of the last year.
Before the newsletter, a quick reminder:
For the next seven days, I’m offering 40% off exclusive content for one year. This means that if you sign up now, it will be $3 per month or a flat rate of $24 a year. After August 1st, it will be $5 per month and $40 per year.
The first exclusive post will be on Sunday, introducing The Unfamiliar Movement Project. This is stuff you can’t read anywhere else, folks!
If you are honestly, truly in a challenging financial place and you still want to join, no worries! Send me an email and I’ll add you to the community, no questions asked.
Now on to the newsletter!
A Quick Shout-Out:
I just found out that one of the readers of TWLL runs an animal rights non-profit, so I wanted to highlight her and the important work she does!
Esther Mechler runs United Spay Alliance. From the USA website:
“United Spay Alliance is a national animal welfare organization dedicated exclusively to promoting affordable, accessible, and timely spay/neuter services as the solution to the crisis of cat and dog homelessness.”
If you’d like to find out more about the important work she’s doing and donate to this important cause, check out her website.
I’m continually blown away by how awesome my readers are!
The Book That’s Got Me Scribbling Quotes Like A Madman:
“The time has come to set out for sacred ground... that will stir our sense of wonder. It is down the path to the deeply real where time stops and we are seized by the mysteries. This is the journey that we cannot NOT take.
The old hermit along the side of the road whispers, stranger, pass by that which you do not love.”
Oh my GOD. I found this book in a free little library three years ago, and it sat on my shelf, untouched, for three years.
On a whim, I brought it to Costa Rica. That was the best decision in recent memory.
I was feeling listless for the first week in Costa Rica, drowning in that whooshing sensation of “what the hell am I doing?” that one gets at the beginning of a big project. Three pages into this book, that feeling was stone-dead, replaced only by wonder and excitement at the possibilities ahead of me.
“In Joseph Campbell's popular book of essays Myths to Live By, he described something pertinent to our theme of sacred journeys: “The ultimate aim of the quest, if one is to return, must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.”
This book is a travel guide for those looking for something deeper than tourism. It’s stuffed with pictures of holy places, stories of pilgrims from all over the world (including “The Peace Pilgrim” whose story deserves a post in itself).
If you’re looking to reconnect with yourself spiritually while also getting lost, this is the place to start. Check it out!
A News Story You Won’t Want To Miss:
Meet The Three Women Who Met Because The Same Guy Was Cheating On Them... Then Took A Road Trip Together
I'm going to be honest, I got so excited about this story when I heard about it on Instagram that I had to dig deeper. This one made me laugh, then made me want to know more. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did researching and writing it!
It's a delightful tale, involving three hoodwinked women, one unfaithful man, and an epic road trip in a converted school bus. Sound too good to be true? It's not. It's a day in the life of Abi Roberts, Bekah King, and Morgan Tabor.
Last holiday season, all three girls had just started dating (independently) a great guy. Or so they thought. One day, when she was with her new beau, Tabor happened to see some overly friendly texts and photos pop up on Prince Charming's phone. She started to do some digging, and quite easily found out through social media that this boy was less-than-faithful.
Using Instagram, Tabor sent a message to one of the girls to spill the beans that none of them were exclusive with this slimy snake. Surprisingly, they started bonding over this dramatic letdown.
two of them did some digging together and realized that “the boyfriend who shall remain nameless” had also been dating Abi Roberts, an art student from Salt Lake City, 339 miles away (I mean, come on, how far up your butt does your head have to be to think you can get away with or even organize that?)
“We [me and this boy] were having a great time, and then around December, I got a text from two girls,” Roberts said in an interview with The Salt Lake City Tribune. “One of them… basically said, ‘Hey, are you dating this person?’ And I said yes. And they’re like, ‘Well, we’re both dating him, too.’ So that was a huge shocker.”
Tabor and Roberts set up a cinematic big reveal moment, getting on FaceTime together and waiting until the slimy serpent showed up with flowers on Tabor’s doorstep.
He tried to talk his way out of it, but they dumped him then and there. Knowing that they probably weren't alone, they did some more digging and were eventually able to track down and inform another half-dozen women that they were not exclusive with this man.
even begin to imagine how this guy organized this! Did he keep it all in his head? Did he have a room full of calendars? Just imagining the sheer amount of paperwork this douchery would require is making me break out in hives.
After dumping him, Roberts, King, and Tabor kept talking.
“We did a lot of trauma processing and memory sharing, and it was obvious that we were all really cool, fun people who had a lot in common,” Roberts said in an interview with the Washington Post. “Right away, we became good friends.”
Here's where it gets really good. The three women swapped stories about their dearly departed boyfriend and figured out that he was attracted to women with the same interests. He’d told all of them that for years, he'd had a pipe dream of traveling across the country while living in an old Volkswagen bus.
In an ultimate act of revenge, the three girls decided to make that dream a reality—without the original dreamer.
They bought an old school bus with the financial help of friends and family. In Boise, they glammed it up into a tiny home on wheels:
At the beginning of this summer, they pointed their wheels towards the freedom of the open road. They're planning to visit Washington State, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Teton National Parks, and hoof it south down the West Coast.
This journey has already transformed them in ways they never thought possible, and their journey has just begun. You can follow along with them on their Instagram, the.bam.bus.
“At face value, a lot of people think we’re just doing this [to spite our ex], but no,” Roberts said. “This is very authentically us following our dreams and taking opportunities.”
Best of luck on your voyage, pilgrims! May it bring healing and community.
Thanks for tuning in today, friends and family! I hope that the week ahead brings you fulfillment :)