👩❤️👩 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!
Re: Sheryl Lee Ralph.
If you haven't read her book Diva 2.0, I HIGHLY recommend it. Listen on audio, its so fantastic! She is such an icon, diva, and positive powerhouse of a human.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95312539-diva-2-0?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=Yk7nXeoXuN&rank=2
Erin, this is a great one! When Sheryl Lee Ralph speaks - I mean she could recite a shopping list- it is like church. And I think I was the HNY kid. I felt the fleetingness of childhood acutely. I watched several of those playlist name songs, but it is hard to top, “Cheryl's Got Great Boobs”. 😆 (Cheryl, you also have intelligence, good ideas, opinions that matter, and a soul that is beloved.)
That reminds me, anyone reading the Beaty Beat series on the Evangelical Bro Code? Lord, have mercy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/katelynbeaty/p/evangelical-bro-code-billy-graham-rule?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1vmrh
Y'all - January was all my dreams come true. Other than work, I leaned in to wintering so hard. No resolutions. Just British period pieces and PBS shows, knitting/crochet, the soup project (I made 5 kinds - all delicious), the cookie project (I planned more, but those orange cardamom ones were so good I just kept making them). I read books and listened to books and played board games and took soaky baths ( https://bathbevy.com/
) and went to bed way early. It was amazing. My one adventure to San Francisco for Fancy Nerd Weekend (afternoon tea at the Fairmont, MTT's final performance with the San Francisco Symphony, tour of Grace Cathedral) had me floating in a cloud of music and art for the final week.
Resolutions are for Groundhogs Day/Candlemas/St Brigid's Day/Imbolc. Today I bake cream puffs for the neighbors and get going on stuff. Storms are rolling in, but it still feels lighter than the Long Dark January of the soul. I just cant sort my life out on January 1st. This is the 4th year I have done this and I'm never going back. I've even toyed with writing a book about surviving January.
Anyway - happy Groundhogs Day/Candlemas/St Brigid's Day/Imbolc to those who celebrate! Looking forward to catching up in the comments.