🥓 Lil Treasures #263: Social Media, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Bacon + Friendship Weather
It's time for your weekly treasure trove + wellness check
Welcome to Friday!
I feel like I’ve lived entire lifetimes since our last newsletter together. All these unprecedented times really do start to stack up.
One lil sliver of joy that is keeping me moving is that we are only 11 days away (!!) from my new book’s birthday! If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, you’ll want to do so soon in order to get some sweet pre-order bonuses! (And don’t forget, if you already pre-ordered, you can access those prezzies here)
I hope you’re doing okay, friends! I saved some internet treasures, just for you.
Please enjoy this week’s treasures! 🌼
🌊 Social media has taken a weird turn lately, but I think to a lot of us millennials, the grandeur only continues to wear off with time. Does that mean we need to delete it all? Maybe, or maybe not. I think it’s important to reclassify the value of our relationship with the socials going forward, especially as they continue to shift. Anne Helen Peterson’s essay The Social Media Sea Change really got me thinking about how I’m using social media in my own life.
🥓 This week I learned there was such a thing as cinnamon toast crunch bacon. Please, I beg of you, LET ME KNOW your thoughts if you have tried it.
🫶 Here are a few great reminders to keep the good in this week.
❤️🔥 The next four years will probably hold a roller coaster of emotions, including some justifiable moments of frustration and rage. Go save this poem for when you need validation for your anger.
🚌 I have always had a soft spot for Pete Buttigieg (former Secretary of Transportation), and I loved reading his post about his time in office.
📚 This poem about how life is full of terrible math stopped me in my tracks this week.
👩🏼🍳 I use a lot of internet recipes when I cook, and every time I do this is my experience. Makes me wonder if I should just kick it old school and start writing them down?
🍊 It’s been quite a week, folks! Are you like me and experiencing all kinds of emotions, sinking into despair, or simply just wondering how you’re going to make it through the next for years of this administration? When I find myself spiraling, it’s important for me to make a plan for how to move forward so I don’t stay there. I wrote about eating doomsday Taco Bell and creating The Joyful Resistance Plan over behind the paywall! You can subscribe to The Swipe Up+ to read it and all other paywalled essays, or send me an email at hello@erinhmoon.com to get a free sub and read it for free!
🤔 It is time, beloveds, for the January Favored or Forsaken episode over on Faith Adjacent. We’re discussing things that we favored this month, as well as digging into topics like New Year’s resolutions, changing your mind and President Jimmy Carter. Here’s the link to listen!
🌟 David Gate wrote yet another banger poem, and you should definitely read it! Let’s stop reducing ourselves so other people feel more secure, shall we? I know my girl Ilona Maher is certainly not.
👯🏽 Here’s a look into the future of me and the girls in 20 years.
The memes!
That’s all the treasures this newsletter can contain (until your comments, of course). If you’ve been a comment lurker for a while, today is the perfect time to enter the chat. Take care of yourselves this week my loves, and I’ll see you here again next week!
I have tried the CTC bacon and it is tasty! It tastes a bit like if you are a bacon-dipped-in-syrup person, with a cinnamon overtone. It’s not fake or chemically. I will warn you - you will be surprised by how dark the cinnamon gets while cooking and think you are burning it and pull it out before it’s super crispy. Do not do that! It’s not burning, it’s the cinnamon.
I got a new cookbook I’m excited about! My friend raved over its practicality. What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking. There’s a whole community in Substack dedicated to the swaps.