Thanks to Facebook memories (that’s right, I’m that old that I still go on Facebook), I belatedly realized today is OBT’s 12th anniversary! I don’t think I’ve ever forgotten one before. I hope that means the romance isn’t gone…

In honor of 12 years of daily posts about art and beauty and humor and cool stuff (and the occasional Etsy fail), I thought I’d share something truly uplifting. I stumbled upon Jasmine Wilder’s Tiny Joy Project in my new-and-improved Instagram feed*, and I knew it was something I had to share with you lovelies. Wilder describes it as “a soft, human corner of the internet for people who are a little drunk on being alive. The kind who look up at the sky and can’t believe they get to be here at all.”
*I’m trying to encourage music and dance and kittens and kindness rather than the doom scrolling I was doing previously. I now get my news elsewhere, mostly. It has taken a while, but my feed is definitely getting more positive!

Every week on Wednesday, Wilder sends out an essay on presence and wonder and beauty. And each essay is accompanied with a list of tiny joys, “the little proofs that life’s still good, still trying, still full of magic when you pay attention.” I love this woman’s attitude!

You can follow The Tiny Joy Project on their Substack and on Instagram and Facebook. And happy anniversary to me!