Power Nap #63
A light and vibrant meatless summertime meal!
In Case You Missed It
This tablet holder for the car is awesome for car ride entertainment.
This lightweight foldable backpack has becoming a hiking essential. Kate loved it for their Banff trip last year and it came in handy yet at Smoky Mountain National Park.
If you have an apple watch, this slim band has been Kate's favorite for years now. The milk tea color Kate has is less than $6. The starlight color comes out to less than $3 with a 50% clickable coupon!
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."
Henry Ford
Things We Found Interesting About Tennis
On the loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player. This former player spent his career in the lower divisions (think minor leagues). On the surface it seems exotic – lot's of travel to cool, European cities – but it's a grind.
Nate and the kids watched this documentary on Amazon Prime (h/t to Nate's friend Jon Smetana) that chronicles Roger Federer's retirement announcement and final days as a professional.
Speaking of Federer, Nate was reminded of this essay from 2006 from David Foster Wallace: Roger Federer as Religious Experience. Nate has read most of DFW's essays. This one was in his book Both Flesh and Not. Most people don't know that he got his start as a tennis beat writer. Nate loves the analogy he uses here in that most of the time sports get compared to war or use war-like language (defeat, conquer, grit, etc.) but with Federer it's more like music or poetry. In other words, with Federer it's not war, it's love.
If you're still looking to diversify your summer reading list, here's the NTK Obscure Summer Reading List featuring almost 500 books submitted by you all - plot description included.
Things We Devoured
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