Pull Up a Chair

Pull up a chair — we’re writing this one with sand between our toes.

This week, our whole family descended on St. Augustine, Florida. Kids, grandkids, all of us under one roof with the Atlantic out the back door. It’s loud and full and a little chaotic and we wouldn’t trade a single minute of it.

There’s something about stepping away from the ordinary that makes you see it differently. The farm will be there when we get home. The garden will keep doing what gardens do. But this — the grandkids chasing waves, everyone gathered around the same table — this is the stuff that doesn’t keep.

We’ve been thinking a lot this week about what it means to actually design a flourishing life. Not just tend it. Not just survive the season. But to stop long enough to notice what you’ve been building. To look at the people around you and realize — this is the harvest.

Sometimes the most purposeful thing you can do is step out of the routine. Rest isn’t wasted time. It’s the thing that makes everything else grow better.

We’ll be back at the farm before long, dirt under our nails and donkeys hollering at us from the fence. But right now, we’re right here. Fully here.

And that feels like exactly where we’re supposed to be.

— Jules & Lane

Out in the Garden

Basil Reset

If your basil is starting to look tall and leggy, don’t be afraid to cut it back hard. I know it feels counterintuitive — you look at all that growth and think, surely I shouldn’t cut it? But pinching or pruning basil all the way back to a set of healthy leaves is exactly what it needs. It signals the plant to stop putting energy into going to seed and start throwing out lush, full new growth instead.

The reset is the point. We did a whole video on this

Tuck it in Your Pocket

A reset isn’t starting over. It’s starting from everything you’ve already learned. — Jules

Have a question you'd love me to answer? A project you're proud of? Something inspiring you've seen? I’d love to hear it—and it might just show up in a future newsletter.

We’re building something beautiful here, together. Now that's BombDiggity!

Here’s to designing a flourishing life,

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