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For sure, this is what e e cummings envisioned.

HEY It’s time TIME TO DANCE IN YOUR KITCHEN (Or anywhere really)

Finished reading: The Steerswoman (Steerswoman Series) by Rosemary Kirstein 📚

What an enjoyable book. One review describes it as “excellent female-authored fantasy that had been undeservedly forgotten.” Spot on. The promise of a scholarly protagonist committed to honesty hooked me. The friendships and physics interwoven with classic fantasy elements kept me hooked. Maps! Lore! Jewels! And smart analytical thinking. Loved this one.

In 10 days, I’m taking the kids to Puerto Rico for a long week of vacation.
I’m so excited to relax at our favorite beaches, visit friends, and do nothing but read, rest, eat, swim, and soak up the sun. This is our first “big trip” since the divorce. In the past three years I’ve done a couple of overseas trips by myself, and several road trips/family visits with the kids. But this is my first time doing the whole flight+rental car+hotels+etc for all five of us, as the sole adult.
It’s a little intimidating.
The planning is fun. I like trip logistics and I’m good at that sort of thing. It’s really the idea that I’ll be THE ADULT on this trip. If something goes wrong, I gotta solve it. I have to do all the navigating and driving, checking in and out, making decisions, communicating…
Fortunately, this one is a soft launch. We’re going back to where we lived, not a new place. We have friends there, so I can get help if I need it. That makes it easier. Plus the kids are not little. They’re near-adults, helpful, intelligent, capable, and great travelers. So I’m expecting things will go great, we’ll handle little disruptions with ease, and have a lovely time. I hope so, because I love traveling, and I love traveling with my kids, and I want to do more of it. It’s been on hold till now. Feels really good (even if a bit scary) to unpause this part of my life and pick it up in a new way.

Finished reading: Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher 📚

Really enjoyed this one. Female protagonists (love), good writing, endearing story but not cutesy, humor, just a lot of all around yes.

The Month of Ursula, apparently.

1. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
3. The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Split by Suzanne Finnamore
5. A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross
6. Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
7. No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
8. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

Finished reading: The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

So good, of course. This one is going to linger in my brain.

just overheard Lauryn Hill and Amy Winehouse referred to as OLDER MUSIC so anyway bye I’m gonna go dig my own grave and lie down in it

Supply Side Jesus - animated

Does anybody else have a “car book”? Just a book… that stays in your car… There when you’re waiting for a few minutes and need something to read. Right now mine is a collection of short stories by Bukowski.

Finished reading: No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. 📚
Got the overview of internal family systems I was looking for in the first half, skimmed the second half.

Checking this site periodically for little dopamine hits: donald trump’s debt: live tracker

We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a
commodity. And they will say that this structure
was held together politically, which it was, and
they will say that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon