🔥Lil Treasures #138: Slytherin and Flamin' Seasonal Depression

We're talking Mario Kart and Dirty Diet Coke

Hi everyone!

Congrats on making it to Friday. I am pushing myself across this summer finish line with as much vigor as I can possibly muster. This has been my brain lately if I’m being honest:

Simon Holland @simoncholland

Nothing ruins a nice Wednesday like remembering your kids need to eat dinner.

BUUUUT my kids go back to school this week! It is time for the return of structure and schedules! Summer vacation is almost over and while that is sad I am also ready for the start of a fresh and beautiful school year.

Do any of you have back-to-school rituals that you practice each year? Maybe a school year Opening Ceremony? My ceremony is mainly just going to Target so let me know if you have any cooler ideas.

Now on to the treasures:

👸Y’all know I ride hard for Mary Magdalene and against the patriarchy as often as I can, but I think this scholar named Elizabeth Schrader rides harder and I’m here for it! Read all about her research and journey here. My favorite part of the article: “A woman has to know her worth,” she said, “to dig and find this.”

🥤God bless it, it is so hot. Thank you all for letting me continuously complain about this. A fun new drink I’ve been loving to stay cool recently is this Dirty Diet Coke from Euna Mae’s made with Diet Coke (obviously) and mostly stuff you already have in your house.

⛪ The state of the American church can at times be quite annoying and disappointing these days. Aaron Niequist shared this Ode to the Church by Carlo Caretto and it stopped me in my tracks, in a good way. Thanks to my friend April for sharing it with me!

🦁I thoroughly enjoyed this article that sorted each of states in the U.S. into a Hogwart’s House. Do you think the sorting hat got your state correct?

🎧Some fun other places you can find me this week are on the Everything is OK podcast and the Prophetic Imagination Station podcast with my dearest D.L. Mayfield! Some fun conversations happening about faith and taekwando and the Christy Miller series happening in these spaces.

💞As you gear up for the chaos that homework and morning routines bring, let this post on life-giving words for kids from Meredith Anne Miller be a companion with you.

Let’s do some Tweets!

Feeling these first two tweets in a very real way:

Dooney & Broke @uhhdouni

sick of the heat i’m ready for this

Meredith Haggerty @manymanywords

I know SAD is for winter, but based on everyone I'm talking to, this summer is very much like, "from the makers of Seasonal Depression, now comes Flamin' Seasonal Depression"

LB Hunktears (race weekend vroom vroom) @hunktears

if Mario Kart was about pure driving I would win every race but unfortunately my competitors insist on engaging in a great deal of unsportsmanlike behaviour

Michael Pielocik @michaelpielocik

If you play Clue in a hot tub it becomes a j’accuzzi

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd

“I’m gonna put this somewhere safe” is an ancient incantation that opens a portal to a random point in another timeline, through which all safely kept things travel, never to be seen again.

Tredlocity @tredlocity

I'm watching The Rehearsal. Nathan Fielder is like if a Batman villain didn't do crimes.

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze

everybody wants a “confident woman” until she accidentally llama-fies the emperor of Peru

Kat Armstrong @katarmstrong1

Sarah was pregnant with Isaac at 90 years old. And there was no air conditioning. Let us have a moment of silence for Sarah.

Alix E. Harrow @AlixEHarrow

no i don't want to "continue building new friendships in my community" i want to "force all my old friends to move to wherever i happen to be, ideally on adjoining properties" why is that a problem????

Maybe she’s born with it 💋

Devi Abraham @devi_writes

When you have hot flashes and it’s like.. maybe it’s Covid maybe it’s post partum maybe it’s pre menopause MAYBE ITS MAYBELLINE.

Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga

there should be two ex-evangelical veggietale characters that are an eggplant and a peach

Sophia Benoit @1followernodad

Can’t believe we have one hand that just sucks. Embarrassing.

pronouns in bayou 🐢 @twentylifetimes

the chicago style hot dog implies the existence of the mla style hot dog

Have a great weekend, pals! Can’t wait to read about what you’re loving in the comments.