Ten pounds of personality in a five-pound bag
Today I learned about the “America the Beautiful Access Pass,” for people with permanent disabilities.
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/accessibility/interagency-access-pass.htm
I think this would be a nice aspirational thing to get.
And it’s got a cool owl on it!
Jesus doesn’t ask “who is right?” But rather asks “who is hurting?”
I swear, the older I get the more I am circling back around to Christianity from the other side.
I’m still not there on the theology of a literal God or the supernatural. But I am 100% on board with the message of the Jesus of my childhood, in a church that had a Social Justice ministry before American conservatives made that a dirty word.
It doesn’t matter if the person telling you to care for the sick or stand up for what is right is Jesus or Gandalf or Kaladin Stormblessed. What matters is what you do with that advice.
Blogaround time! My friend wrote this and I think it’s pretty spot on. Especially the stuff about parenting.
It should actually be illegal to advertise a job as “entry level” and require any amount of work experience for it.
That’s not what entry level means!
That’s it, that’s the post.
https://bsky.app/profile/kenjennings.bsky.social/post/3mbuedepurs2x
No doom.
Go to bed, Emily.
Call your Senators tomorrow.
Some people are morning larks. They wake up early and go to bed early.
Some people are night owls. They stay up late and wake up late.
I have found, as I grow older, that I really need more sleep than I give myself. I can’t stay up until all hours of the night anymore, but waking up is still very difficult.
Per this magnet I found: I am clearly a Perpetually Exhausted Pigeon.
My word of the year, according to the Merriam Webster Bluesky account, is Kind-Hearted.
I like this kind of seeded horoscope.
https://bsky.app/profile/merriam-webster.com/post/3mbeoejfk2k2b
I realized today that a big part of why I never got into fanfic is that so much of it is so poorly edited I can’t get through it.
I almost put down ACOTAR because of “parameter” on page 1. I’m not exaggerating. (I instead got out a pen and corrected it.)
I read Manacled because the text was, by and large, legible. I bounced hard off another fanfic my friends recommended because it was not.
And I want to be clear: being like this does not make me morally superior. It just makes me someone who needs the writing to be basically invisible in order to suspend disbelief and immerse myself in the story. Poorly edited copy takes me out of that world as I try to figure out what the author was trying to say (usually by converting the letters into sounds in my head to guess what the homograph or malapropism was supposed to be).
I wonder if this is related to how, when I hear a word, my brain converts it into the visual “word on a page” in my head?
This person had the idea to create a basket of activities to do instead of reaching for her phone. I really like that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomenOver30/s/bmxLvBhDJN
What would you put in your Analog Basket?
I like this.
https://hennymarlene.substack.com/p/you-should-pick-your-friends-up-from
Do the thing.
Be inconvenienced.
Emilybook 