Courtney Ellis 🎈
@courtneyellis
author | pastor | birder | mama | wife to @revdarylellis | books: Weathering Change and Looking Up w/ @ivpress | host #TheThingWithFeathersPod
Change is hard. It’s also inevitable. Creation is constantly in flux—seasons, tides, migration, life cycles. Witnessing the ways nature weathers change offers wisdom in how we might do the same. So excited to announce my new book, Weathering Change. Preorder yours today!
Me: The baseball game is halfway over! The 6yo, flopping down onto the completely disgusting stadium floor: ONLY?!
If someone loves books but don’t know them super well, may I suggest gifting: —a gift card to Bookshop.org —a gift card to a local independent bookshop —a preorder of my new book, Weathering Change: because obviously EVERYONE will love that one
Why is it always, “How are you doing?” and “Did you get my email?” and never “Here is an all-expense paid trip to Costa Rica to go look at toucans”?
Just read my first Colson Whitehead novel (The Nickel Boys) and it about blew the doors off the place. Who’s a writer you slept on for too long?
Really, really enjoyed this much-needed book on the different layers of calling and our ultimate call to pursue Jesus through seeking and contributing to what is good and beautiful and true. @KSPrior is so wise and I can’t wait to chat with her on The Thing with Feathers soon!
Just traded our decent seats in the blazing sun for way higher seats in the shade, and I am becoming a good person again.
Headed to a Dodgers game to celebrate @revdarylellis’s birthday and it’s a testament to how much I love him that I’m willingly attending a baseball game. (Yes, I’m bringing a book.)
Maybe this is the year I finally accept I’m never going to read The Year of Magical Thinking and I stop checking it out from the library over and over again.
They never found the tooth. Some janitor is going to get a delightful surprise.
Parenting is so wild bc I’m just here watching my daughter’s gymnastics while my husband updates me from our son’s basketball game. —He’s doing great! —Almost made a shot! —Got hit in the face and one of his teeth came out but it’s okay, we are pretty sure it was a loose one.
Parenting is so wild bc I’m just here watching my daughter’s gymnastics while my husband updates me from our son’s basketball game. —He’s doing great! —Almost made a shot! —Got hit in the face and one of his teeth came out but it’s okay, we are pretty sure it was a loose one.
The face of this vole is absolutely sending me. “Yes, I’m going to die. But also: what a VIEW!”
Some days you’re the kite, some days you’re the vole 📷 Sha Lu
Reminder that if you have a 4th grader you can get a free National Parks pass for your fam.
One of my favorite writing professors asked me to blurb his new book of poetry. Honored to do so. You’ll want to get a copy of this one, friends. Reading it is like standing outside on a moonless winter night, watching the stars. Frosty wonder on every page.
We are going on a family road trip next month and planning to visit every Little Free Library we can along the way. Should I do a thread with locations, hauls, and shout outs when I get back?
Sometimes I feel just a little off and can’t figure out why. Then I realize it’s been days since I read a novel.
German chocolate cake on its way for @revdarylellis’s birthday tomorrow. Or, as my kids call it, “the kind with the boogers.”
