By: Revanche

Good Things Friday (115) and Link Love

April 30, 2021

1. I liked thinking about answers to this question: what could someone get you under $15 that would make your day? Some of mine: A donut. An ebook. A graphic novel. Cool designs on forever stamps. Cute stationery. Neat stickers. Erasable pens. Really nice tipped felt markers. Lily’s sugar free PB cups. Diet root beer (I prefer regular root beer but the sugar might lay me out now). What are yours?

2. There was a lot of interest last week for the proposed book giveaway in which is great! My wonderful SuperGroup Friends pitched in some money to help fund more books, too.

I had initially thought to do a mix of physical books and ebooks but there was so much interest that the best way to get more books in hands on our total budget is to go with ebooks. I can’t buy the books to give away until the release date though, so I have some time to think about it. If anyone wants to sponsor more copies, let me know 😊

3. We are trying ordering prepared Indian food from a great place in Sacramento. It’s SO authentic that the menus don’t have any description 😅 beyond the dish name, and so we’re basically getting mystery boxes. But it’s good! Last week, we picked 6 12-oz items and liked 3 of them. We didn’t love the other 3 so we won’t get those again, but more importantly, one or more of them seemed to trigger a fibro flare up. So we won’t be doing that again. They also gave us a free bonus (a North Indian kurma) with that box which was fantastic. This week, we’re trying 6 new 12-oz portions. It’s all vegetarian so this might be our way of getting vegetables/vegetarian sides to go with the proteins that are easier for me to make. I’ve always been terrible at veggie sides, but we love Indian food so I think this could be our compromise.

Challenges this week: Grieving. So much grieving.

“I was embarrassed by the number of boxes I kept from new products just because they were a Good Box.” – this could be our motto! We have a containers problem.

Shadow work is good work.

In Conversation: Mads Mikkelsen. Known for playing villains in the U.S. and more nuanced roles in Denmark, he takes everything and nothing seriously.

Why wouldn’t I just book this suite instead of traveling?

I hope this polar bear lives a long and happy life.

This is a disgusting practice and should be illegal. This money should be held in escrow for the kids, and states should be made to pay back all the kids they stole from: The Marshall Project and NPR have found that in at least 36 states and Washington, D.C., state foster care agencies comb through their case files to find kids entitled to these benefits, then apply to Social Security to become each child’s financial representative, a process permitted by federal regulations. Once approved, the agencies take the money, almost always without notifying the children, their loved ones or lawyers.
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Daniel L. Hatcher, a law professor at the University of Baltimore and a leading expert on this practice, said it invites a larger question about the role of government. “I think sometimes these officials are so in the weeds of getting funding however they can, they don’t even realize that this is not just another funding stream — this is literally children’s own money,” Hatcher said. “This is about whether we’re going to use abused and neglected children’s own money to pay for what we’re supposed to be providing them as a society.”

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