Good Things Friday (133) and Link Love
September 10, 2021
1. I’m pleased that on a Saturday I: cleaned a counter, did a load of laundry, paid two bills, finally finished off doc review that I’d been avoiding all week, had therapy, planned some cooking and made some headway on searching for hard to find ingredients, donated to a friend’s GoFundMe, and donated to the CRR. This was all very satisfying.
2. I also managed not to completely blow my stack at JB several times for behaving like your average 6 year old with their foibles. It was hard and I’m trying to remind myself that I did my best and parenting has rough waters. Not feeling great about it all the time is part of the gig.
3. It’s really nice to WANT to cook again. The desire in and of itself doesn’t create the time or energy for it but it’s the first step I always need to making it happen. I’ve been hatching a plan to make a huge batch of my special chicken and rice, some for the week, some for the freezer, and some to share with our food-tradesies friends. Sunday morning, I cancelled our other plans because I simply didn’t have the energy for socializing and spent it putting the cooking plan in motion. There’s something so soothing about cooking, when it’s something I want to do.
4. My PIKAOLE package arrived and I’m thrilled to bits at the small pack of cuteness. I refused to even tell JB what came in the envelope because I’m not sharing my quite expensive special stickers and postcards.
Challenges this week: Everything in the outside world is overwhelming. Most things in our personal life is, too. We’ll get through eventually but it’s going to take some doing.
One in a Million: An Elegy for Aaliyah
forgotten diasporas – Xhosa People of Zimbabwe: indigenous South Africans displaced by colonialism
Never thought I’d want to join the Satanic Temple but here we are in 2021 with the John Roberts court killing Roe v Wade and here’s (from 2020) How the Satanic Temple Could Bring Abortion Rights to the Supreme Court: “The Satanic Temple is a religion that believes in benevolence and empathy among all people, rejects tyrannical authority, and advocates for common sense and justice. For years now, The Satanic Temple has fought to expand religious liberty notions that the conservative Supreme Court has applied to Christians to apply to its members as well.
Particularly, The Satanic Temple has fought this battle over abortion. The third tenet of the religion is “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.”
And now, Satanic Temple Floats Devilishly Clever Strategy To Dodge Texas Abortion Law
The amazing sea wolves of the Great Bear Rainforest
Thiiiis is terrible. Have you ever been fooled by a feral cat yowling thinking it’s a baby? This is much worse: Listen to a lyrebird mimic the cry of a baby
The Town That Went Feral: When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in.
