🍋 Lil Treasures #112: The Beyonce Standard Version (BST) and Screaming Moms
Plus what your favorite youth group song says about you now
Hi everyone! It is once again Friday and I’m so glad it’s here, to be honest. I feel as if there’s not enough caffeine in the world to keep this engine running.
Without further adieu, here are this week’s treasures:
🗽 If you’re familiar at all with Jerry Falwell Jr (former President of Liberty University) and have followed the crumbling of his reputation, you’ll enjoy this article in Vanity Fair.
📱 I feel so seen in this poem by David Gate.
🎸 My life growing up was saturated with a mixture of Caedmon’s Call and Point of Grace, and pretty much and and all CCM-adjacent music. So when I tell you I cackled while reading this article in Relevant magazine 😆. If you want to find out what your favorite band in youth group says about you now, please read it and then let us know what you got in the comments! And as always, if you want to inject a little bit of youth group nostalgia into your Friday, my playlist called A Spiritual Discography should do the trick!
☕Laughed real hard at this man running to spill the tea.
🤬 This article about a group of moms in Massachusetts who got together recently just to scream out their frustrations about Covid/schools/work/childcare/ quarantines/etc gave me a lil boost today. Also we need to get this going in Birmingham….
Let’s do the Tweets!
Pals, I truly hope you have a great weekend. Can’t wait to read about your treasures from this week in the comments! Xoxo.
Hey gang, happy Friday! How are you? I am... not well. It feels like my body is falling apart and dragging my already fragile mental health with it and my whole life is a catch 22. Plus, you know, hormones. I actually considered never posting here again because I'm so sick of always complaining about my health. But I guess I don't know how to quit you 😉 Anyway, if you have any Ts and Ps to spare this week, I'd really appreciate them. On to treasures:
🌸 Yesterday I found a huge bunch of cherry twigs at the grocery store. Right now they don't look like much but I'm hoping I'll have some lovely cherry blossoms to cheer me up in a couple of days!
🎧 The Slow Way and The Next Right Thing podcasts both hit me in the right spot this week. So much goodness.
🎵 When I was 4-6 years old there was this Swedish pop singer I adored and listened to *all the time*. Last week I discovered an album of hers from 1984 on Spotify. I'd only ever heard one of the songs before (on cassette) but the whole album is gloriously terrible, or terribly glorious, and I can't stop listening. It's cheesy, it's in Swedish, it has songs about passing notes in class and making phone calls on land lines. It's so bad and I love it with my whole heart.
📺 My beloved Junior Bake Off. Please tell me those of you who wanted to watch it in the US have found a way to do so! I really hope you have. These kids are saving my life right now and I want to be like them when I grow up.
🎂 My birthday is next week. I may have mentioned before that I don't like my birthday, but I've decided to cram this one full of as much goodness as I can. Eat my favorite food, make my favorite cake, maybe watch one of my favorite movies, perhaps buy myself a book or some tulips? Plus, it's on a Friday this year so I get to hang out with you, yay!
Ok, I've written way too much already, love you and I hope your weekend will be wonderful and exactly what you need it to be! ❤
Popping in for the first friday in a while to say hi to all my old palss :D
The Jars of Clay analysis got me to a TEE. Am high church liturgical leaning (check!) Wes Anderson (check!) on the Enneagram cool-down (check!) --- but also to drop a Jars of Clay story, I went to church with the keyboard guy from JoC for a little bit in highschool. I had his kids in childcare one wednesday night. I didn't know who he was, but he was in Sunday school with my parents and when he picked up his kids he was like, aahhh yeah, you're Darryl and Liz's oldest kid right? and that is the first and last time a low-key famous person will ever know who I am before I know who they are.
ALSO I LITERALLY JUST PAID MY LAST STUDENT LOAN PAYMENT FROM GRADSCHOOL.
(Also, did I tell y'all I finished my grad program??????)
also... being a librarian is a hard thing right now with all the book Challenges/bannings (Tennessee is being a stellar state as usual) - So like, pray for me and my "cares too much" anxiety levels in the coming days 😅
Now. off to my Wordle appointment, and then work and then checking in with yall. throughout the day.