Sometimes you and a friend come up with a hilarious idea and then a year later your friend executes it. #shiptember2020
Had to use the Wayhome Tarot for Lindsay Mack’s Coming Home to Ourselves spread, if course. I, um, had to draw a few extra cards for clarification.
I’m still/again grieving the dissertation I planned and will not get to carry out. Maybe I will do the missing pieces later. Maybe not. For now, all I know is I’m sad about it.
Becky Albertalli wrote this moving essay about her shifting understanding of her sexuality. The longer I live, the more I think we all gain a more nuanced understanding of our identity over time.
🔖📚 From Petra Mayer at NPR: Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers
Well, that’s a help in choosing which books to share with my kid next. A nice mix of classics and newer stuff.
🔖📚 From Megan Mabee at Book Riot: How The Hunger Games Prequel Helped Me Realize I’ve Changed
I can relate to Mabee’s realization that being a mother has changed how she responds to books.
📚 I’m reading MEXICAN GOTHIC and it’s wonderful but every description of the house gets me sidetracked thinking about all the Gothic novels I haven’t read yet and how much I want to read them, too.
📽️ I am watching BLACK PANTHER for the first time. The fact that every single Wakandan is awesome is not a surprise, but it is a delight. I was like, “Okoye is the best! Wait, no, Shuri is the best!” but there need be no best, they’re all wonderful.
I could use less productivity advice or inspiration and more permission to just be.
I fell on the basement stairs yesterday and mildly sprained my right ankle. I sprained the left one falling on different stairs in January. I’m having one of those times when it’s hard to be friends with your body.