Is this idea crazy? I’ve been thinking of it for a while. In advance of Winter Holidays this year I basically want to send my family members an ORDER FORM to request what they’d like me to make them for Christmas.
I don’t mean to impose my values on everyone, but I prefer EXPERIENCES, MEMORIES, HAND-MADE and/or CONSUMABLE items as gifts. If there’s one thing we have too much of in our (western, “developed,” american) culture it’s… everything.
To that end, here is the list I’m thinking of. What do you think??
CIRCUSKITCHEN HOLIDAY GIFT OPTIONS:
1. FIRE CIDER by Jenny & ClaraJane (A vial of hot-as-hell health elixir drink to kick a cold and boost your immunity)
2. BREAD KIT (easy to make, ready to bake all included homemade kit for delicious, fresh oven bread)
3. MOOD LAMP (white or multicolor pixie lights in a bottle for reading or mood lighting)
4. INSPIRATION NECKLACE (with name, quote or phrase of your choosing)
5. ART by Gavin (Your name or word of choice commissioned and custom made by Gavin)
6. A Real Live DATE in the coming year, with yours truly, where I either bring the bunnies by to visit, take you out for coffee, lunch or something else of your choosing!
7. A SONG: I learn and perform for you the song of your choosing, at some time we schedule in the coming year.
8. Finished VIDEO of a past shared experience by Yours Truly!
Or 9. (For my sisters): A PLUMPRINT Starter Kit (send in your kids’ artwork in a specialized postage paid box and you get back a beautiful bound book, including a digital copy as well.)
#Srsly #WhatDoYouThink???
(And if you ARE in my family, please feel free to enter your “order” in the comments below!)
(I will corroborate the following claims asap. Meanwhile I'm writing
these quickly before work today because there's no time to waste.)
HELL NO to Kavenaugh: Top Ten Reasons
1) 93% of his records remain undisclosed.
2) He has ruled with corporations over people 73-0.
3) He doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state.
4) He believes the president is above the constitution.
5) He believes that Roe v. Wade is not “settled law.”
6) There has been no (FBI) INVESTIGATION into the allegations
7) The first accuser is extremely CREDIBLE
8) His drinking buddy accomplice has written MEMOIRS to their excessive drinking and dubious position on women’s rights to consent.
9) Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the land and necessitates the very highest moral standard (eg: not Clarence Thomas).
10) He seems very supported by right-wing DARK ASS money.
Furthermore,
11) As yesterday’s hearing showed us, he is a totally partisan, whiny little bitch who can’t control his emotions any more than he can answer a fucking question directly.
#HELLNO!
Please call these Senators today, and tell them
#HellNo on Kavenaugh!
Or at LEAST that we need an FBI investigation.
HER: I'm 100% sure it was him.
HIM: Wasn't me.
GOP: !?!
America: OMG GOP WTF?!?
Last week I wrote my Boy’s teacher on account of some stress he was experiencing over homework. She wrote me back some great words and also I hadn’t heard of “Couch to 5K” before, but now I have. (It’s apparently a well known training concept for beginners to start getting off the couch and eventually be able to run 5 kilometres.)
Thoughts from Ms. Stefanie about homework and Gavin:
Just like with a sport, he needs to build stamina and because his
academic motivation (for assigned work...) is newly founded he
probably is just building up that stamina. I say take it like a
"couch to 5k" some nights you might walk a little and some you
sprint but it's building that muscle to do longer stretches of
concentrated work. He also may be someone that needs frequent breaks
- he doesn't have to be glued to the chair all at once doing the
work. We will find something that works, whether it's a chart or
something else. I hope that his mood has improved (he did look like
his old happy self today).
I’m mostly just delighted my Boy has decided to CARE so much about his academics now, and that he has such a wonderful teacher. Not to mention the privilege we have of living in a civil community that is healthy and safe and among other things provides quality public education!
For Moms (ahem) 77th birthday this year we celebrated over a beautiful fish dinner naturally prepared by my Dear Hubsand, followed by a cake that turned into a veritable inferno. No one was hurt.
On September 7th 2018 this extraordinary podcast came to light.
“TINA LIVES is a raw and engaging, street-smart story about growing up hippie, growing up hard and coming of age while living a life that mirrors the collapse and burnout of the hippie movement by the early eighties.”
EPISODE 2: Tina’s parent’s Jim and Diana were “hip” not “square,” but also violent. The house that Tina burnt down was a refuge home after Jim broke Diana’s nose for the last time.
EPISODE 3: Diana marries a social worker named Paul. They save their pennies and buy an old Vietnamese Army bus converted into a camper and the family sets off to California to join the counter-culture movement.
EPISODE 4: The family’s travel adventure is often marred by Diana’s erratic and violent episodes, but the majesty of America has the power to soothe the otherwise rough road to becoming “hippies.”
EPISODE 5: After a bit of a respite in Cleveland, the family once again takes off for the West Coast. En route, they find themselves in the middle of a violent riot that took place in Grant Park, Chicago, Ill on July 27, 1970.
EPISODE 6: The family finally makes it to a commune in Oregon, but bus-living in the winter is no fun, so they move to a house in the nearest town. Diana finds a new boyfriend; Paul leaves, but returns when Tina gets a hernia. Diana says goodbye to her boyfriend and the family heads to Sacramento, CA.
EPISODE 7: The family heads to Northwest Arkansas to investigate living on a commune, but instead takes up residence in a house in Fayetteville. Tina is sent to the attic for weeks as punishment for an unknown crime.
EPISODE 8: For no apparent reason, the state of Massachusetts was pulled out of a hat and the family hits the road for the East Coast. Along the way, Tina notices her mother’s beauty had faded and her demeanor had become menacing. Tina is blindsided by a pit stop on their journey.
EPISODE 9: Tina loves foster care! But alas, that residence also comes to an end. In New Bedford, Mass, Tina finds beauty in a neighbor and sometimes even in her mother.
EPISODE 10: The family moves to a spooky house on a hill. Tina plays “school” in school, and then regrets ever having, what she considered, “the best idea ever.”
EPISODE 1: Tina has no memory of traveling from Massachusetts to Arkansas. She only remembers her first impressions of the basement apartment, which will become her new home in Fayetteville, Arkansas with Gorton Darling Hitte.
EPISODE 2: Tina goes on a matchmaking mission to unite Gorton and her chosen surrogate mother, and a Family Called Us moves into a new home of communal living.
EPISODE 3: Tina sees one too many naked people, gets a best friend, and learns about magic brownies, all while her shyness sheds and the consequences of her previous life becomes uncomfortably self-evident.
EPISODE 4: Tina pushes Bob Tarlow right over the edge, checks out the “straight life,” and crumbles to pieces under the weight of Tea for the Tillerman.
I cannot believe how fantastic this is. Our high school’s Black Student Union -who have done an outstanding job of documenting and advocating against the constant, pervasive and otherwise sometimes invisible forms of discrimination that students of color face at every turn- after a VERY challenging year, decided to start this school year on the most abjectly positive note I can imagine; so beautiful it brings me to tears every time I view it [2:23]:
This past Thurs., Sept. 6, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School‘s Black Student Union hosted their 1st-ever “WELCOME BLACK” event to kick off the 1st-full-day of the new year. Encouraging their peers to come early to join them, BSU energetically welcomed students, teachers, and staff arriving at school.
Proud to continue working with these young Black scholars.
Such vision, organization, talent, inclusion, execution AND documentation!
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