Friday Finds: Virtual Thanksgiving, learning to relax, some happy news, and more!
We started decorating the house this week. I usually wait until after the Thanksgiving holiday to put up our “winter” tree, but I’ll take allllll the joy I can get during a pandemic and those twinkle lights make me so darn happy. Also this week: I went deer hunting (!), we started planning our thanksgiving meal (“a renewed hope for what our celebrations could be, if we simply changed our focus”), and reveled in our first week as an engaged couple (!!!) after a lovely proposal while we were out camping in the BWCA during our hiking trip across northern Minnesota last week.
On thanksgiving: “epidemiologists and infectious-disease experts suggest organizing get-togethers over Zoom and confining in-person celebration to single households”
Take a few minutes to escape with Bebel Gilberto
Plastic face shields aren’t a safe alternative to cloth masks
Consider incorporating these lovely books into your Thanksgiving rituals (and beyond!)
“We can easily go about our days with tight faces, raised shoulders, and tense limbs, usually without doing anything to release the buildup.”
Paradoxically, the way we take on our own healing can make healing harder for other people—or even re-injure them—if we’re not thoughtful about how we do it. And in body positivity, some of the most evident ways this manifests are the undercurrents of ableism that, often unintentionally, further the marginalization of disabled, disfigured, and chronically ill people.
Where does creativity come from? It’s a skill.
“…it is disappointing that this administration until the very end has maintained such low regard for America’s public lands, or the wildlife and Indigenous communities that depend on them.”
On being a member of congress and thrifting