4.4.26 | 🌻 I'm returning to joy and to myself

Welcome to The Weekend Edit, a Saturday ritual from The Good Trade featuring our top 10 reads of the week and a note from one of our editors.

Happy Saturday,

I’m so glad to have Kate Arceo curating today’s Weekend Edit. As our Community Manager, she sits at the heart of our reader experience — thoughtfully reading every email that comes in from The Daily Good community (hundreds of notes each week!) and consistently advocating for the care, nuance, and connection our community deserves. Many of you may already know her from our monthly meetups, which she co-facilitates with warmth and intention.

Kate brings a genuine sense of joy to everything she does — her work, her motherhood, and the way she shows up in the world. I’m so excited to share her reflections and recommendations with you today.

Warmly,
AmyAnn

Hello, and happy weekend ☀️

A couple of weeks ago, with Spring’s arrival, I felt motivated to put my hands in the dirt. So when the workday was done, our family of four went out back to relish the extra daylight and plant some tomatoes.

We emptied the abandoned terra cotta pots that had been sitting in the corner of our yard, added fresh soil, and planted the heirloom and cherry varieties I’d picked up over the weekend. My daughter broke up clumps of dried dirt; my son poked tiny seeds into the potted earth. To complete our humble garden, we dropped the half-grown sunflowers my dad had gifted us into their own clay pots, and voilà! We’d made something together and were looking forward to seeing the fruits of our labor in a few weeks’ time.

As a child and into young adulthood, I was hyperaware of the beauty around me. I felt everything deeply, was vibrant and loud about my joy, and even felt embarrassed by my earnestness at times, tamping it down when I sensed my energy was “too much.”...