Have a Loving Weekend. | Cup of Jo

What are your plans for the weekend? I’m excited to go upstate to crunch through the fall leaves. I’ve also been extra grateful for my boys this week; they manage to make me laugh even on tough days. Hope you have a good one — take gentle care — and here are a few links from around the web…

Our go-to holiday gift (everyone loves it!).

When to close your eyes.

A Scottish children’s hospital has a gamer-in-residence to play video games with patients. Sob. Love this way of meeting kids right where they are.

The short documentary, The Big Wait, looks funny and compelling.

Banana Republic is offering 40% off full priced items right now, including the gorgeous sweater we’ve been waiting for.

A cool-looking casserole, of all things.

What an enormous public sculpture in London.

Loved re-reading these two romantic poems: two kisses and a nest.

Six women who won this week.

Who wants to drive through the most beautiful place on earth?

LaTonya Yvette shares 10 favorite things, including a ’70s styling tip and how to make your home a haven. Omg I love her so much. (Big Salad)

Plus, three reader comments:

Says Evelyne on six words to say to your child: “This post is from ages ago, but I have to write to say that last night, our six-year-old son and I went to kick the soccer ball. It was a BIG deal to go after dinner in the dark. At one point, I had to do a strange contortion to try to get the ball, and he laughed and said, ‘I love watching you play.’ It was such a lovely moment! I was in awe of this little being growing up and expressing such kindness to me, accepting my foolishness and lack of coordination and me just as I am.”

Says Beth B on what’s something beautiful you’ve read: “This was from a poem included in a condolence message when my dad passed away: ‘And, just at the moment when someone says, “There, she is gone,” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout, “Here she comes!” (From Gone From My Sight by Henry Van Dyke)”

Says Jessy on there is good in this world: “I remember the ‘Paradox of Tolerance’ that my school taught us about in high school (about, of course, Nazi Germany). To be tolerant you must be intolerant of intolerance, and a society must be intolerant of intolerance to remain tolerant.”

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