If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,816.35; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I hate that Ruth Bader Ginsberg has passed, and I hate that she cannot be mourned simply for the powerhouse for rights that she was.
Instead her memory is coinciding with fear: fear for the loss of rights when she’s replaced on SCOTUS, fear for the loss of the ACA, fear that the 45 will put in another disastrous pick that will determine the election. There’s just too much to worry about in the wake of her loss, and it feels impossible to simply mourn and honor her memory.
And this: “The current state of the Senate has come to this: Senators can’t even agree on a nonbinding resolution to honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life, despite bipartisan praise for the late Supreme Court justice.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s army of clerks to stand guard at the Supreme Court: “Besides her family and written opinions, Ginsburg’s clerks are her most lasting legacy. They began their tenures as young inexperienced lawyers and emerged with unparalleled legal credentials that will mark their resumes for a lifetime: Supreme Court clerk.”
Some of you may want to see the piece that Justice Ginsburg and Rabbi Holtzblatt (who officiated today) wrote together on the heroic and visionary women of Passover. The ones who resisted tyranny, at great risk, to fight for the most vulnerable. https://t.co/c1YUqcBEDH
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,763.51; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I didn’t know there were so many kinds of possible plastic eating fungi! Or that I could be so excited about it because I need SOME kind of light in this hellscape world.
History repeating itself with the pandemic and the realization that overly hot radiators were an intentional design. Who knew? “It turns out that the prodigious output of steam-heated buildings is the direct result of theories of infection control that were enlisted in the battle against the great global pandemic of 1918 and 1919.”
Burnout: Running on Fumes. This is a good reminder, particularly at this time, that running on fumes isn’t any kind of a heroic move. It’s not good for us at all.
Done by Forty on Equality or Equity? Companies really need to be handling this better at a work management level, not just giving some people (sorely needed) time off and then dumping their work on other people.
Which is my own take, very much. Or to paraphrase a story from another tradition:
STUDENT: Master, what happens when we die?
MASTER: I don’t know.
STUDENT: But… but… I thought you were a Zen master!!
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,732.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,732.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I recently found out that a friend had Covid and I didn’t know when she was down with is so she shared her blog post. Btw, this is one reason we get along so well: “I work from home. I don’t even want a job if I can’t do it from home. I hate going in the office, I hate the politics involved, but most of all I hate daily socializing with people I’ve already met and yes judged. I already know I’m going to dislike many of the people there because if you’ve worked a lot of jobs like me you can spot the types.”
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,732.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
‘I Have Stage Four Cancer, But I Will Not Live Like I’m Dying.’ I can’t help but think that JB’s morbid streak comes from me because when I read articles like this, I think harder about all the ways I have to figure out how to replace all the things that I do in our family should I be out of the picture. But that’s a rather transparently desperate attempt to impose control over something you can’t control. I couldn’t replace PiC with systems and preparation if our roles were reversed. Not by a long shot.
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
Teaching Isn’t About Managing Behavior: It’s about reaching students where they really are. I don’t understand why teachers aren’t taught to teach this way to begin with, though.
One Frugal Girl is homeschooling this year and researched a lot of interesting resources. We are definitely not homeschooling but we have been managing JB’s remote education through the summer with a combination of one on one lessons given by a teacher, one-off classes online, and lots of reading and recreational writing with us. Their spelling is amazingly creative at this stage and I don’t know if that’s normal but it’s pretty funny. I would love some other creative and fun math resources from a secular company though. We picked up the Singapore math books, and JB loves those in the abstract, but gets distracted easily.
I’m the worst at calmly accepting and sitting with uncertainty, it reminds me too much of the emotional whiplash of my teens and twenties when I was supporting my family and taking all the hits of their decisions. “On the flip side of every good thing is the risk that it will end.” It’s an interesting mental thing I have going on that I always gird myself against the bad times lasting forever and the good things ending unexpectedly. That comes from experiencing the loss of so many loved ones over the course of a decade, and the Great Recession and countless other bad things strung together. Their impact overshadows the very real good things that happened across that same time span. I’m working on it, and it’s progress that I recognize that even bad times surely will come to an end, but boy is it a rough journey.
I absolutely love seeing a beautiful cake (in pictures, not in person since I can’t have them – no beautifully decorated cake is ever GF and sugar free 😭😅) and if you enjoy cake design too, hie thee to Syndesi Desserts!
I had no idea that ice cream shop songs had racist origins, but now that I know, I’m glad to enjoy this new jingle.
golden retriever spotted, purposely laying in the middle of the sidewalk to get pets from strangers. very strategic
(fridaygolden/sassthx IG) pic.twitter.com/8ZDySIi2nm
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,713.62; Rural libraries, $321.62.
I struggled for years to get adequate care for my chronic pain so reading about the decades-long and systemic dismissal of Black women’s pain and illness by the medical establishment is absolutely infuriating. We all deserve better than this.
The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic: “One of us (Aronson), who was a protégé of Festinger in the mid-’50s, advanced cognitive-dissonance theory by demonstrating the powerful, yet nonobvious, role it plays when the concept of self is involved. Dissonance is most painful when evidence strikes at the heart of how we see ourselves—when it threatens our belief that we are kind, ethical, competent, or smart. The minute we make any decision—I’ll buy this car; I will vote for this candidate; I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax—we will begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reasons to dismiss the alternative. Before long, any ambivalence we might have felt at the time of the original decision will have morphed into certainty. As people justify each step taken after the original decision, they will find it harder to admit they were wrong at the outset. Especially when the end result proves self-defeating, wrongheaded, or harmful.”
I’m looking around and I think it’s pretty clear Americans are going to completely squander what’s left of our opportunity to get this thing under control. Americans continue to amaze me in all the wrong and terrible ways.
I needed some good stuff:
What a lovely affirmation! The video is worth watching, I just had to take a screencap for folks who don’t click through links: https://twitter.com/pearlsnappea/status/1291878131880665095?s=19
This thread led me to this designer’s collection which is absolutely gorgeous. I’ve never seen a collection of dresses where I loved almost every single one of the creations. Just some really lovely eye candy.
A 2-year old profile of Seanan McGuire. I adore every Incryptid story she’s ever written even though some make me sad because they’re too short. I can’t handle the Wayward Children books right now but that’s mostly because of where I am in life and also pandemic. Middlegame was spooky good and spooky and good.
