Wednesday, December 11, 2024 →
We went to the Over the Rhine concert last night with a dear friend. The show, while overtly religious at times, provided a healing energy and atmosphere that I needed. Their call to action was to love one another. I can get behind that idea, no matter whose angel invokes it. Also I got merch.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 →
This. All of this.
By Rosie Kerr
stop making stupid people famous text Sidewalk art, on the streets of Miami. It could be anywere. It is everywhere. Read. Learn. Think. Vote.
Wynwood, Miami, United States
Published on March 7, 2018
OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP., E-M1
Free to use under the Unsplash License
I found a new-to-me local coffee joint that’s just up the road. I’ve been going in the mornings when I WFH and getting a 4-shot mocha. It’s cheaper than Starbucks, closer, and well, not Starbucks. This morning I noticed this newspaper kiosk outside of it and had to take a picture.
🎵📚 There’s a children’s book, The Boy Who Said Wow, about a non-verbal 9yo boy on the autism spectrum. He goes to the symphony with his grandfather and, well, something pretty extraordinary happens. You can listen to the book online. Be sure to listen to the actual moment it happened, too.
I still cry from missing Lucy.
You guys I’ve been getting daily compliments on my purple hair this week and I kind of want to let my boss know so I can rub it in her face just a little bit because she is not a fan. Not. A. Fan. But otherwise she’s pretty cool
Today I was visible to someone who also needed to be seen. We saw each other and it was a very meaningful, human moment.
There’s a small gaggle of Christians who stand on a downtown street corner every day hawking a “Free Bible Course” and some book I would never read. Today I noticed they were standing about 20 feet away from a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk under a blanket. Wondering what’s in that course.
“And why aren’t there billboards for government services that won’t potentially send you to war and kill you? For example, the Post Office. Facts about Obamacare. Tallies of congressional votes to show how often Republicans fuck things up for everybody.” This is all just off the top of my head…
Yesterday as I was driving home, I saw two billboards right next to each other meant to recruit people to join the Marines. I found myself thinking, “Why on earth aren’t there billboards shouting Democratic accomplishments or for factual information to counter the Republican disinformation?”
I can’t seem to find the ring that my husband gave me when he proposed. I am certain that it’s in the house somewhere and that the cats have hidden it.
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Ready to read if I’m asked to share what I’m grateful for at the family gathering we’re headed to today. Notes in case I’m asked to cease talking, each increasing in polite firmness: Please allow me to finish - my gratitude, which you’ve just asked me to express, is just as valid as yours. Please allow me to finish - I didn’t interrupt you when you were speaking. Please allow me to finish - I’ve let you finish for 45 years, I have the floor now; I’m speaking.
My husband made biscotti and they look divine.
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Every year at the family Thanksgiving dinner, we do what all the good, white-privileged families do before eating: we pray. We stand in a circle holding hands around the kitchen table. Somebody gets nominated by my father to have the honor of saying grace. Being an atheist, I try every year not to bow my head when someone starts praying, but every year it’s like a preacher’s Pavlov’s bell - -my head nods down.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Kim Deal’s new album, Nobody Loves You More, is quickly growing on me. It’s nostalgic and familiar but like nothing anyone else is putting out right now, and like nothing she’s produced before. The string and horn arrangements are unexpected, lush, and provide an unusual, lovely backdrop. I thought the ballad “Are You Mine?” was a love song when I first heard it. Turns out it is, but not in the way I assumed.
Monday, November 25, 2024
The Hour of BewilderbeastBadly Drawn BoyI had a friend named Steve. He introduced me to Badly Drawn Boy via the song Everybody’s Stalking. I liked it enough to buy the whole album. I’m glad I did. I miss Steve. That era of my life, and almost the entire circle of friends I kept at the time, are behind me. The only person who kept in contact with me is Amy. I’m glad she did.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
Self portrait
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Disability Etiquette Training This is one of the very few mandatory training courses we take each year which is 1) excellently produced and 2) actually important. If you’ve ever wondered how to interact with a person who has a disability of any sort, or you just want a refresher, you should check it out. It’s free to watch, and free to share. View available training videos
Also if you’ve never seen A Black Lady Sketch Show, start here with Bad Bitch Support Group. I almost fell off the couch.
The intro to A Black Lady Sketch Show (also the actual sketch show) makes me feel like everything has got to be ok. It at least makes me smile and laugh for about 30-45 minutes solid.