Crystal Brutlag

✨ Novelist, poet, blogger
✨ Helping churches & nonprofits connect with their community
✨ I 💙 my 🐶, ☕️, & ✈️
✨ 📚 = 😊
✏️ Current WIP: Wail

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Starting the last quarter of 2020 like... ☕️☕️☕️

(Thanks to my friend Sarah for the photo!)

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@CoffeeTillBeth Is he okay?

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Looking for a book similar to In Five Years by Rebecca Serle. Any suggestions? #amreading

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LOVE that bookshops are considered a critical business. We need books right now more than ever. 💙💙💙

[Red Balloon Bookshop @RedBalloonBooks]

Update: WE ARE STILL OPEN! Last night we were officially declared a "critical business," so we are going to keep doing things basically the way we hav been for the next two weeks at least! Details here: https://t.co/bCIgcpYmKv. And THANK YOU. ❤️🎈

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A coworker and I are already making plans to go out for wine when all this is over. 🍷

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I called someone this AM and she said, “I was just teaching someone how to use Zoom!” I was like, “Same.”

Who knew 2020 would be the year of teaching people how to use Zoom?

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@theMarisaMohi I worry about people’s mental health through all this as well.

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@theMarisaMohi Thanks for calling her! 💙

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Scheduled an email that I've been sending weekly and thought I must have missed a week because it feels like it's been so long since I've done this.

It turns out last week was just one really long week.

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I work in church communications with multiple churches and when I thought about how I would describe this week, the only words that came to mind were: Constant vigilance!

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@momgosomething I was really worried my Twizzlers would be out of stock. I don’t eat them often, but really wanted some. Luckily they had them! 🙌🏼

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@_kawoosh Same.

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What does the word fellowship mean to you?

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@hollywillowvine 💙💙💙

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That moment when you yell at Wordpress, "You're not in control, I am!" you know Wordpress is, indeed, in control.

But I'm persistent, so I won. Take that Wordpress.

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@exsixtwosix I would totally be open to reading a recommendation from you!

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@Odrah I’m not married but I knew I didn’t have a future with a guy who said, “See, you have all this competition” when we walked in a bookstore. It didn’t bother me that he didn’t read what I wrote, but the lack of support was a deal breaker.

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Finally took care of the huge knot that's been in my hair for a few weeks (thanks to hat season, I've been able to cover it) and I learned two things:

1) It feels really good to be able to brush my hair again.
2) Sometimes the stupidest things make you feel like an adult. 😂

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@AMKelly81 Love this one!

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@MyPixieBlog @SocialSara612 💙💙💙