🐝Lil Treasures #130: Spelling Bees and Mormon Momtok Drama
We're talking recess and slow left lane drivers.
You made it! I’m so glad you’re here. I for one am grateful that we find ourselves slowly easing into Friday and the weekend. I had the best time celebrating my dear friend Courtney at All The Best Days with some mostly new pals and a lot of rum punch and puzzles last week. The week-after-vacation is always a big b-word to us all, and I have sadly been it’s latest victim. Do you have a fun trip planned this summer? I would love to hear all about what you have planned (or an adventure you’ve already taken) and also any tips to help with the post-vacay blues. Right now I am here:
Okay, back to reality and this week’s treasures!
🔤 I was so dang impressed with the winner of the National Spelling Bee as an overall genius but especially featured in this video of the lightning round. Also made me question my intelligence entirely.
🎧 Jamie and I did a Favored or Forsaken of the SBC Guidepost report over on the Bible Binge Patreon, but eventually decided we would release it on the main feed since it’s an important conversation. You can listen to that here! (Trigger warning: our conversation does delve into the topic of sexual abuse and suicide)
🛎️ I don’t know how Lisa Gilroy did it but this video the exact reenactment of me as a child during recess.
📘My friend Kelly Bandas is one of the funniest people on the internet. I am delighted today because Kelly has decided to accumulate her humor + life tips into a book called Rookie Mistakes: A Grown Up’s Guide to Getting Your Act Together, and it is now officially available for pre-order! I endorsed this gem myself and hope you get the chance to read it. You can order your copy here!
💔The tragedy in Uvalde is behind us, but even more stories of shootings have emerged since then. I read a recent article in the New York Times that makes the case for the idea that we need to stay heartbroken. It is easiest to try and move on, but I do think it is such an important moment for us to stand in that grief for a little while, and let that propel us to continue to contact our representatives and make room for change.
👨👩👦👦 Going through a time of restructuring in your faith while simultaneously trying to raise humans? Let Meredith Miller’s post about what to expect as you reshape your faith and parent in real time give you some tools for this process.
Here are this week’s Tweets:
Don’t forget to drop your treasures in the comments! New to the group and wondering what is considered a treasure? Let us know what you’re loving these days. Pasta salad recipes? Panda bear videos? A good summer read or playlist you’re loving? We want to know. But please do spare us from the La Croix + vinegar fake Coke situation because I’m not interested. But if you are I still love you anyways. Byeeeeeee!
New here! So here are my treasures this week...
1. Visiting a friend in Barcelona next week! So I’ll be going through vacay blues in a couple weeks.
2. Obsessively watching Somebody Feed Phil on Netflix. Jumped to the Madrid episode so I get in the mood for some Spanish cuisine.
3. Reading Daisy Jones & The Six which I know I’m late to the party but loving it!
Hello everyone! I had this week planned out by how much stamina I would need for each political event, and I have made it to Erin Moon's newsletter and my local baker delivering fresh bread to my door. IA primaries: Check. 1/6 Hearing: Check (ish) March For Our Lives: Let's do this!!!
My treasures are:
-The Calm App. The stretches and breath work are marvelous if you don't have time for an extended workout.
-A backyard cardinal. He's been visiting every so often this summer. The baby birds in the front gutter have flown the nest. Also, if anyone has any tips for being wildlife friendly but keeping rabbits out of the garden, I am all ears.
-The Pantsuit Politics community.
-The chapter on rage in Cole Arthur Riley's 'This Here Flesh' should be a national treasure.
-A lovely meeting with my spiritual director where we talked about the stream of change flowing throughout history.
Can't wait to catch up with everyone!