Episode #119: Revisiting and Resetting Resolutions
Welcome back! On this week’s Book Friends Forever episode, Grace and Alvina check in on their 2021 new year's resolutions.
“How have you been?”
Grace talks about her almost near-death experience falling down from the tree house in her backyard! Here is a photo that explains:
The slips were very wet from some rain but luckily her fall left her unscathed!
Alvina is getting ready to go visit her family out in California to celebrate her wedding. She and Stephen recently went to the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit! They also checked out a friends’s restaurant called Bessou in NYC, a take on traditional Japanese comfort food.
Revisiting and Resetting:
Alvina and Grace based their 2021 goals in Episode #96 based on Gretchen Rubin’s book, The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too). In this episode, they talk about how they are meeting those goals and some of the adjustments they wish to make socially, physically, spiritually, and mentally.
Fortune Cookie Segment: “What are you shopping for these days?!” Alvina shops for outdoor patio furniture and Grace shops for spring bulbs!
Gratefuls:
Grace is grateful that she has recovered from her fall! She is almost done with the paintings for her new picture book called “Once upon a book” that is co -written with Kate Messner. Alvina is thankful for her blueberry bush!
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