🍻 Boys Night, famous people + loose Doritos:Lil Treasures #325
We're talking coffee, overcoming failure + surprise moon sightings
Happy Friday, folks! 👋 I’m so glad you’re back for another edition of Lil Treasures.
High fives, cheers and a big ‘ol thumbs up to all of us trying to make it through the crushing weight of the month of May. We’re halfway through, angels! We can do this! I hope this week’s treats give you the boost you need to keep going.
🎓 What an insane surprise for graduates from NC State to find out during their commencement ceremony that this donor and his wife had paid off all final-year loans for those who were graduating from the Wilson College of Textiles. Seldom do we see examples of wealth being used for good, so it kinda feels like a lil gift to us all. And especially coming from the son of an immigrant!
📣 There’s always a dad like this on the sidelines of all kids sporting events. If you’re a Sports Parent you know it to be true (or maybe it’s you).
🎤 Who’s ready for a lively round of Favored or Forsaken, May-edition? The newest Faith Adjacent episode features topics like recent Newsboys lawsuits, Nick Jonas and what’s going on with Baylor and the Baptists. Listen to the episode here or wherever you cue up those pods!
🌕 I cackled at this women experiencing an extremely rare moon sighting while she was driving.
🦆 This is the kind of boys night I am in favor of.
❌️ It’s Co-Op week over in The Swipe Up+! This time we’re opening up the conversation to ask the question, “Is failure a disaster?” Read the essay and feel free to chime in some of your own words of wisdom by clicking below.
🎒 The respect I have for this snack backpack, even down to the Loose Doritos! Seems like folks from Philly are a great hang. I am notorious for bringing a charcuterie board into a movie theater so this is the energy I am here for. Let me know the craziest snack-related adventure you’ve been a part of in the comments!
💪 I don’t know what we did to deserve this photo of Jonathan Bailey working out, but I’m not complaining about it.
That’s all for today, my dearest pals! Thanks for reading, engaging (leave a comment before you go!) and being overall incredible and amazing human beings. See you next time!
Those are almost my exact morning thoughts. The rage is real. Thanks for these delights to help balance it out. Mine this week:
🐙 Remarkably Bright Creatures - the book and the movie - just sweet stories of people being kind and finding love and healing after tragedy. Love a good found family story.
📚 How to Read a Book - the fiction book - same. My insides felt soothed and hopeful even on a taxing, stressful day because of this book.
🧶 My mom left behind a million weird colored granny squares when she passed and ive been expanding on them in a way that is turning into a pretty and cheerful afghan. It has been a balm to have something bright and colorful to look at and something meditative to do with my hands that also is slowly turning into something. Plus the 80-year-olds in my knitting group all love it, so.
📻 My summer playlist (which is a bit disorganized at the moment. I need to rearrange some songs). I just decided that 95 degree weather means I can start playing my summer music and it has been a fun boost!
🏖 And my apologies to everyone enduring Maycember, but I feel like I've been in Maycember for 10 years, so my husband and I decided that Summer starts this weekend. Opening Ceremonies on Saturday: we eat Froot Loops cereal, watch an episode of Phinneas and Ferb and write out our summer bucket list. We are stuck in 100+ heat with no way to vacation due to medical issues, so we are having to get creative about how we give ourselves some things to look forward to. For today it's Froot Loops and surf music.
See y'all in the comments.
Do y'all know about the musical Suffs?! It's about the fight for women's suffrage, and I am quite literally obsessed with both it and its creator, Shaina Taub. The pro-shot of the original Broadway production premiered on PBS last Friday, and it's all I've watched or listened to since. (Well, that, and interviews with Shaina and the other creatives involved in it, but that's just continuing the obsession.)
It's amazing and inspiring and now I feel fully ready to take on whatever-his-name-is! (You know, Pete Hegseth's pastor who thinks women shouldn't vote. Not even remotely ashamed that I don't remember his name. Kinda proud, actually.) Come at me, bro, I have memorized Broadway songs which I will sing at the top of my lungs in your face!
It's free on PBS.org through July 31, so get thee to a laptop ASAP!