Hello hello,
I need to vent about another recent endeavor here, and I fear this may elicit some serious hate mail. The topic: Hot Pot. We recently went to a local Hot Pot restaurant, and I have so many thoughts about the experience. First of all, let me say I love Korean food. This not a critique of the food, but, rather my specific experience. Hot Pot is a genius business model. They bring out raw ingredients, and the patrons PAY to cook their own food! I see the appeal if it’s just Chris and I (slightly), but attempting to enjoy the experience with 3 small children is a fool’s errand. Here’s how it went:
1) the kids were expecting the food to be edible as soon as the waiter dropped it at the table so we started out with unmet expectations (thankfully someone brought them dumdum suckers while the food cooked)
2) I’m so short that I couldn’t reach the cook top while seated so I had to stand the whole time in order to cook the food
3) You have to be careful not to over-order or you’ll be charged a ‘waste-fee’, but the kids don’t know if they’re full or hungry as they eat a bite and then wait for a while! All-in-all, it was so much work and math to eat at the restaurant that I left hungry. I can’t wait to try Hot Pot again…minus all my offspring.
Alas, I need to re-highlight some of the best Brene Brown podcast episodes since we are all anxiously awaiting her return to the podcast airwaves this fall. Please enjoy:
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/inclusion-on-purpose/
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/accessing-joy-and-finding-connection-in-the-midst-of-struggle/
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/masterpieces-and-messes/
Malcom Gladwell’s second half of season 7 also just started back up- he’s got an episode where he revisits a concept he wrote about in Outliners. Check out the latest episode here:
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/outliers-revisited
Of course the students at UPenn that are involved in the episode don’t want to right-size their privilege of being the oldest kids in their class…
#courageousconversations #powertoprivilege #blacklivesmatter
Talk soon,
Jessica