My bedhead is feeling extra goth and channeling Tim Burton a little bit this morning.
My mom was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia this week and started chemo yesterday. If you want details, email me and I’ll send you the link to her CaringBridge site. Please forgive me if you reply and I don’t get around to saying thank you.
🍿 Watched Encanto.
Lovely.
🔖 Read The Homebound Symphony by @ayjay
I’m trying to be the Homebound Symphony. Just one person sitting in my study with a computer on my lap, reading and listening and viewing, and recording and sifting and transmitting – sharing the good, the true, and the beautiful, with added commentary.
This is what I would like to do, too.
Key lines from “Surface Pressure”:
Give it to your sister, your sister’s older
Give her all the heavy things we can’t shoulder
Give it to your sister, your sister’s stronger
See if she can hang on a little longer
Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt and
See if she can handle every family burden
Watch as she buckles and bends but never breaks
Give it to your sister and never wonder
If the same pressure would’ve pulled you under
I haven’t seen ENCANTO but I gather Luisa is the middle sister and yet her song is the anthem of eldest daughters the world over. 🍿🎵
Peak IndieWeb Eldest Daughter Kimberly: considering for a few minutes trying to do a self-hosted version of CaringBridge before deciding it’s okay to use a silo for that purpose.
W’s aunt gave M an amaryllis and it’s blooming. Big Alice in Wonderland vibes. [Image description: a large red amaryllis flower blooms.]
🔖 I highly recommend Everything Is Awful and I’m Not Okay: questions to ask before giving up as a tool for managing daily living when things feel hard.