🎸Lil Treasures #78: Protect the Linda Lindas at all costs

Happy Friday, friends! Just as a friendly reminder: Lil Treasures is on a working vacation while I work on some projects and transition to summer. I want to thank you again for your patience and I’m hoping soon we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming. Until then, please enjoy this edition of the newsletter and all the joy to be found in the comments! - Erin

✏️ My kids finished school this week and it’s officially summer in the Moon household! My oldest is somehow now a middle schooler and I’m still in my feelings about it. It has been quite a year for my kids, navigating new challenges like wearing masks for 8 hours a day and a flip-flopping between virtual and in-person learning more times than I can count. I’m so proud of their resiliency. This sweet liturgy by Little Way Chapel for the end of a school year is helping me process the transition of this weird year + the beginning of summer.

💟 This past Wednesday was the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. I came across this article in Vogue this week about an exhibit at the New Museum in New York called “Grief and Grieving: Art and Mourning in America”, specifically addressing black grief. The article serves as a great reminder of the importance of grieving and has also encouraged me to re-assess the part I’m playing in grieving with and alongside my brothers and sisters of color. (Also, if you live in New York, please go visit this exhibit!)

📕 My friend Taylor Schumann, a writer and school shooting survivor, is releasing a book about her story and the realities of gun violence this summer. Taylor is one of my favorite internet follows and always has wise things to say - so I can’t wait to see the way her words unfold in those pages. The book releases July 20th, but you can preorder your copy here! I know I keep mentioning this but I really think this book is so important!

🎧 Guys this flawless remix of Burn (Hamilton) with Traitor (Olivia Rodrigo) is on repeat for me today. Also we’re all listening to Sour, yes?

🤘 I’m in a punk rock phase I guess - last week the newsletter featured a punk rock nun, and today we will focus on three punk rock teen girls shredding to their new song “Racist, Sexist Boy” in a library. Y’all the Linda Linda’s are my new favorite band! Also - the cherry on top of this story - they got signed to a record label! So proud 👏

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Kim Scott @kimballscott

My son at the dinner table tonight: "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people."

alex medina @mrmedina

a perpetual state of being https://t.co/N8U0v5AgVu

Kevín @KevOnStage

I’m tired but not tired enough to fall asleep. But too tired to do anything else.

Kevin T. Porter @KevinTPorter

A lot of people are emerging from quarantine way hotter and way meaner and honestly good for them.

sassy seminary student @LeahBSassy

kids ask the craziest questions about God like why don’t you try reading the summa theologiae instead of the hungry caterpillar for once and get back to me

Jessie @mommajessiec

Are you able to relax on Sunday evenings or do you know about Mondays?

Kaitlyn Schiess @KaitlynSchiess

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ben mekler @benmekler

There’s a heart-wrenching scene in A QUIET PLACE PART II (that I presume was added to the film during the past year of delays?) where the kids discover an episode of Some Good News their dad made for them before he died

R. Eric Thomas @oureric

Going to start replying to every email with "hmmmm... OK?" and see how far that gets us.

Alright pals. Have a great weekend and I’ll see you in the comments! ❤️