👩❤️👩 Lil Treasures #215: Fistfights, Friend Crushes and the Beyhive's Mom
We're talking screen savers and the horrors!
Happy Friday, pals!
We made it through another week, so I brought you this week’s finest treasures as a reward. Before we dive in though, I’d love to know how we’re all doing!
Are you still feeling the winter blues, or has the start of a new month made you feel rejuvenated? For those of who you (bravely) partook (or didn’t partake, really) in Dry January, are you celebrating this weekend? What exciting things are on the horizon for you this month? Hit me with the highs and lows of how you’re feeling and what you have planned, I want to hear it all.
And now, for the greatest treasures in all the land:
🫶🏾 It’s officially February, which means it’s also Black History Month! One of my favorite actresses of color, Sheryl Lee Ralph, was on the Oprah show last week championing her co-actress on Abbott Elementary, Quita Brunson. Every word out of Sheryl’s mouth is usually powerful and meaningful, but this particularly gave me chills.
👟 I think a lot about how I didn’t know what was coming when I was a kid wishing to grow up, and how I should’ve cherished my childhood a little more. Well, this guy interviewed by Humans in New York realized in the moment what a gift childhood was and I think that’s just so beautiful.
♱ People, Lent is only two weeks away! I know we have discussed in great detail our plan for this year, so I won’t get into the nitty gritty this week. If you want weekly emails and a the community aspect of the Memento Mori Lent study you can join me for $6 a month here! If you want to go solo with your own digital copy (or another study from my Lent archive) you can purchase your very own on my online store. Have questions about how this will work? Need a scholarship for this year’s study? Shoot me an email at hello@erinhmoon.com and I will help get you sorted!
🎸 One of my favorite scenes on the Barbie movie is the montage of all the Kens playing the song Push for all the Barbies. In front of a bonfire, of course. And just gazing, at nothing. Because who among us hasn’t just stared awkwardly at a boy while he played guitar for an absurd length of time, expecting us to fall in love? Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty (who wrote the song) got interviewed about the song being in the movie and I was surprised to hear his lovely response!
🏈 Like most women with a pulse, I thoroughly enjoyed the Taylor + Travis postgame gushing. In case you didn’t get enough of it this week, here’s a fun lil roundup of Swelce memes.
📸 Couldn’t help but feel joy after watching this photo shoot. They were WORKING that camera! My dear friend April works at UnlessU, so this was extra special for me to see her people in action!
⛪ There’s a fresh new Faith Adjacent episode ready for your ears in this week’s February Office Hours! Knox, Jamie, and I tackled topics about church, Shia LaBeouf, and what to do when your friends pray too long. Cue the new episode up wherever you get your pods!
🥔 This musician wrote a song about all the playlists he's been added to on Spotify and it made me revisit my own playlist vault to see how they would hold up. I hope artists enjoy being added to my “Protestant Potato Bois” and “Starting Drama in My Healthy Marriage” playlists.
🎥 I think Lily Gladstone (she starred recently in Killers of The Flower Moon) is just incredible, and really enjoyed this Hollywood Reporter roundtable interview with her, Margot Robbie, Emma Stone, and Greta Lee. Fast forward to around the 26:00 mark for Lily’s part!
📖 This post where Pete Enns answers Google's questions about the Bible is a delight.
🖥️ I relate so hard to Ayo Edebiri having Matthew MacFayden (aka Mr. Darcy) as her screen saver and then straight up getting grounded for it.
🌊 Take a look at this post and let me know which one of the slides resonates with you (my favorite was journalists on ground/twitter warriors).
Time for those memes!
And that will conclude this week’s treasures, my friends! It’s a pleasure to be a part of your Friday each week. Take care this weekend and I’ll see you again soon!
Any Lil Swipes headed to Winston Salem for Emily Freeman’s book launch on 3/13?
Hello, friends!
I could and could not resonate with the tweet about math because I am taking a pre-algebra course for my AA in English this semester. Haha! Four more courses to go and then I will transfer to Western Illinois University (online) where the plan is to study history and sociology. I have been taking courses off and on for about a decade and cannot wait to have my associate's degree behind me!
Treasures: -
Atomic Habits by James Clear (book). My fiance and I are reading this together and it is a delight. I generally steer clear of "self-help" books for a variety of reasons, among them being that I don't think that the authors include neurodivergent people like myself in the audience but Clear begins his book with a traumatic accident that he had as a child and my interest was immediately piqued.
-Am getting excited about updating my bathroom and feeling slightly anxious about shopping for shower curtains online. For context, the last time I did this, I came across a shower curtain with a gorilla taking up the entire curtain. There is a reason that I still remember this...
-Meteor Garden (Netflix). Based on the K-drama Boys Over Flowers, this remake has 49 episodes. It expands on the original show (2009) and there are some really good conversations to be had about it, especially about male friendships and greed.
That's it for this week! Even though it's my birthday month, I am glad that January is over and we have made it to the other side of winter (cue The Greatest Showman with Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman). Have the best week available to you, friends!