Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n
1. So many houses along the Garden State Parkway already have their outside lights up as we drive north for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
2. My friend John holds a Shrek<\/em>-themed birthday party at a bar. I worry ahead of time that he will be disappointed by how few people turn out in costume, but his friends commit to the theme, and dozens of us make appearances as characters from the series. <\/p>\n 3. The playing squad of the middle school volleyball team has an end-of-season party. It’s the first time I’ve seen most of the girls since the loss, and it is good to see them back to their ebullient selves.<\/p>\n How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. So many houses along the Garden State Parkway already have their outside lights up as we drive north for Thanksgiving. 2. My friend John holds a Shrek-themed birthday party at a bar. I worry ahead of time that he will be disappointed by how few people turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-beautiful-things"],"yoast_head":"\n