🥪Lil Treasures #132: Tender Sports Moments and a Sick Little Sandwich
We're talking Top Gun and facial sheet masks...
Happiest of Fridays to you, friends! I am writing to you today with the power fully- functioning at my house (His love endures forever) and my air conditioning unit working in overdrive. It’s been in the high 90’s/100’s all week in Bammy and we are really freaking hot, but I’m fully embracing these days of summer camp and popsicle-hands and evenings spent at our local pool. Wet clothes and dusty Pirates Booty trash take up most of the space on our floor, but we are making it, tree limbs and all. A very favored Black Cherry White Claw also helps contribute to the general peace, and for this I am grateful.
I have lots of treasures this week and can’t wait for you to read them! Let’s go!
This week’s treasures:
👨🏻 If you’re not seeing Top Gun like this then you shouldn’t be seeing it.
🗣️Darren Walker gave this Juneteenth speech at Monticello’s re-dedication of the Burial Ground for Enslaved People. Please take some time to read it.
⚾ I love a good tender sports moment like this one that happened this week at a Los Angeles Angels game. Have a great sports moment you want to share? Post it in the comments! Bonus points if it also hacks-your-cry.
🩳 I have been LIVING in these All In Motion shorts this summer and I pretty much have them in every color.
💜 This week’s episode of The Bible Binge is a Favored or Forsaken with a special celebrity guest (and one of my favorite humans), Holland Moon! We got to talk about what it’s like for 13 year olds to think about faith, as well as her experience being raised with two parents who are deconstructing. It was such a sweet conversation and I’m just so proud to be her mom! You can listen to the episode here. (Also a good conversation-starter if you have a teen or tween in the same boat.)
🧶If you’re feeling isolated at all in your current state of faith and belief, you should read this post on "theological beatitudes" by Chris EW Green.
🌈 The second post in the Affirming Theology series was published earlier this week! Here’s a lil slice of part 2 (caveat: the names below have been changed for privacy reasons)
By the end of the hour, I was sitting with Steven, John, and Elizabeth. Steven and John were dating, and this was the first time I knew people who were out. The more I got to know them, I learned that John was a deeply committed believer. I learned that Steven wouldn’t step a foot into a church, but he still had questions about God. By the end of the week, I was two different people. One Erin was on the leadership team at the church where she grew up, waking at 6am for campus Bible study, and nursing a crush on one of the members of a pack of Reformed boys at the BSU. The other Erin sat outside on the loading dock while my new friends smoked between classes, scream-sung The Last Five Years on the way to Sonic, and laughed as they told me about their own crushes within the pack of Reformed boys.
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Time for the Tweets!
Please click on the news story within this Tweet, it is incredible.
Okay that’s all for now, we did it! Please don’t forget to post your treasures in the comments, they are always such a delight. See you next time!
I’m usually pretty quiet in here.....but read all the comments 😊. I just thought I’d share that I FINALLY booked a therapist 🙌🏻. I’m 47 and unpacking a lot and decided it’s time to get serious. I’m very, very nervous, but excited at the same time 💙
Happy Friday friends!
We sold our house! We're renting it back for a few weeks, but this move is getting real 😳
Treasures:
🐝 I took my kids to a nature preserve with a waterfall and took a picture where ALL 3 looked at the camera and smiled! Miracle of miracles! (Immediately got stung by a bee after, but oh well)
🎭 Went to the Bible Binge's Broadway sing-along and cried through most of it. Super fun to revisit poignant moments in my life that were accompanied by the soundtrack to Wicked or Hamilton.
🫐 These scones win EVERY time https://kellyneil.com/blueberry-white-chocolate-scones/
It's our last day of Music Together and I'm all over the place. We've done music class with our beloved Ms. Lori for almost 5 years, since my youngest was 18 months old. He's 6 now and since school is out, he gets to come back. Yes, I'm singing One Last Time and leaking tears everywhere this morning. Happy and teary weekend friends 😭🥰