Lauren Sporer

It's not cheap.

The smell of that one is pretty strong.

In a good way.

It is a great smell, and I have myself asked you, what perfume are you wearing?

And the answer is the Aesop deodorant.

Aesop?

I forgot.

What is it again?

That's not right, though.

Anyway, it does smell great, but that is strong.

The smell is too strong sometimes.

Like you get in your car and you're like, I can't breathe.

I was very surprised as we had two recent snowstorms in North Carolina, the sort of emphasis in the local news on not bringing your grill indoors.

And I was like, God, I just don't, that would never even occur to me.

Apparently, it's the cause of major asphyxiation every year and house fires.

Because people think they can do two things at once, warm their house and cook their dinner.

Anyway, my number three is a book by Marilynne Robinson called The Givenness of Things.

It's a book of essays.

And she has a sort of thesis that we're living in a time of what she calls joyless urgency, where we are obsessed with being busy and freaking out all the time.

Constant anxious busyness, obsession with productivity, and a lack of personal fulfillment.