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A mile wide and with winds over 200 miles per hour, the EF-5 tornado that laid waste to Joplin, Missouri, took everything from Dale Kinsel. Already struggling to get through the months after the death of her partner Sydney, Dale doesn't believe she can find the strength to dig through the rubble. The last thing she needs is Sydney's sister, Taren, crossing her path again. There is nothing but bad blood between them and Taren's help doesn't change that. In a broken landscape, Dale has little hope of reclaiming even the simple pleasures. But life—and love—have a way of starting over.

Food brings people together in a way nothing else can. In this new podcast hosted by Yotam Ottolenghi, Yotam cooks for guests in his home, whilst discussing food, culture, travel and the simple pleasures in life. In each episode, Yotam makes dishes from his award winning cookbook, Ottolenghi SIMPLE, which features recipes to make cooking that little bit easier, and a joy. A Pixiu production.

Simple pleasures is a weekly podcast about finding the joy in the everyday, and celebrating the moments that make you feel good, however small they are.When I was 25, I became estranged from my family and struggled to cope with the huge loss I was suddenly facing. Finding pockets of joy, now fondly known seven years later as simple pleasures, is what kept me going during the darkest of days. From putting on a fresh pair of socks to cooking the perfect soft-boiled egg. Purposefully seeking out the joy in my life, even if it felt fleeting, helped me find a whole new version of joy that I didn...

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

You are bored or stressed or hurt. Something is hard in life and you want a break. What do you grab for that you hope will protect, soothe, and comfort? Whatever it is - shopping, overeating, drinking, drugs - promises relief, but never delivers. Instead, you are left feeling empty, anxious, guilty, and wanting more. In CCEFs Breaking the Addictive Cycle: Deadly Obsessions or Simple Pleasures?, David Powlison shares that God made us for rest and pleasure, not for an obsessed and unsatisfied life.