The other day I listened to the podcast “We Can Do Hard Things” where Glennon Doyle and Abby Wombach interview Priya Parker, the author of the Art of Gathering. If you have read my blogs and newsletters, you know that I am huge Priya fan. She is an expert on how to create more meaningful gatherings. In this podcast episode she talks about how we must focus on the math and the poetry when planning a meaningful gathering. We should ask ourselves, why am I bringing these people together? And then we need to break down the structure to support that objective. “What is the infrastructure? What’s the coordinating mechanism? What’s the math and the poetry to coordinate this community to have something that they haven’t had before.”
So this year for Thanksgiving we are just our core four. We are usually at least 9 and many years 14. I love Thanksgiving, the food, the season and the casualness of the holiday. Just eating and being together. My kids don’t love Thanksgiving food. My daughter sensed that I was sad about it being just our small group so she suggested we try something out of the box, making sushi together as a family. Brilliant idea and ties into what you are saying about the math and the poetry. She and her brother went to Tokyo together last May so they shared that experience of Japanese food. My husband has been researching fish and how to make sushi rice. My daughter and I went to the Asian market yesterday and explored and bought all of our ingredients. I’ve ordered the sushi grade fish. And Thanksgiving day when my son arrives we will have the poetry of cooking together as a family.
This is amazing and a perfect example of math and poetry! What an incredible family you have. So much fun to come together and try something different. Sushi on thanksgiving sounds delicious! Can't wait to hear how it goes.
So this year for Thanksgiving we are just our core four. We are usually at least 9 and many years 14. I love Thanksgiving, the food, the season and the casualness of the holiday. Just eating and being together. My kids don’t love Thanksgiving food. My daughter sensed that I was sad about it being just our small group so she suggested we try something out of the box, making sushi together as a family. Brilliant idea and ties into what you are saying about the math and the poetry. She and her brother went to Tokyo together last May so they shared that experience of Japanese food. My husband has been researching fish and how to make sushi rice. My daughter and I went to the Asian market yesterday and explored and bought all of our ingredients. I’ve ordered the sushi grade fish. And Thanksgiving day when my son arrives we will have the poetry of cooking together as a family.
This is amazing and a perfect example of math and poetry! What an incredible family you have. So much fun to come together and try something different. Sushi on thanksgiving sounds delicious! Can't wait to hear how it goes.
I love this.
Thank you! xoxo