pecan pumpkin spice dates, coconut water and a thrifted book i never finished reading so i donated it
some used books from value village that I got
a bowl of something from Herb approach in a handmade pipe from an etsy shop and the book Becoming by Michelle Obama
some books I brought back with me to BC from my last visit to Ontario (all thrifted)
found this at value village
Kids will invest more when they feel they’re being invested in. I understood that there was power in showing children my regard.
Michelle Obama, Becoming
I went to the lectern to speak, I could barely contain my emotion. I glanced down at my prepared notes but suddenly had little interest in them. Looking up at the girls, I just began to talk, explaining that though I had come from far away, carrying this strange title of First Lady of the United States, I was more like them than they knew. That I, too, was from a working-class neighborhood, raised by a family of modest means and loving spirit, that I’d realized early on that school was where I could start defining myself—that an education was a thing worth working for, that it would help spring them forward in the world. At this point, I’d been First Lady for just over two months. In different moments, I’d felt overwhelmed by the pace, unworthy of the glamour, anxious about our children, and uncertain of my purpose. There are pieces of public life, of giving up one’s privacy to become a walking, talking symbol of a nation, that can seem specifically designed to strip away part of your identity. But here, finally, speaking to those girls, I felt something completely different and pure—an alignment of my old self with this new role. Are you good enough? Yes, you are, all of you. I told the students of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson that they’d touched my heart. I told them that they were precious, because they truly were.
“All of us believe you belong here,” I’d said to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson girls as they sat, many of them looking a little awestruck, in the Gothic old-world dining hall at Oxford, surrounded by university professors and students who’d come out for the day to mentor them. I said something similar anytime we had kids visit the White House—teens we invited from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation; children from local schools who showed up to work in the garden; high schoolers who came for our career days and workshops in fashion, music, and poetry; even kids I only got to give a quick but emphatic hug to in a rope line. The message was always the same. You belong. You matter. I think highly of you.
An economist from a British university would later put out a study that looked at the test performances of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson students, finding that their overall scores jumped significantly after I’d started connecting with them—the equivalent of moving from a C average to an A. Any credit for improvement really belonged to the girls, their teachers, and the daily work they did together, but it also affirmed the idea that kids will invest more when they feel they’re being invested in. I understood that there was power in showing children my regard.
Michelle Obama, Becoming
These were children, asking not just why but why so often?
Michelle Obama, Becoming
(in regards to gun violence in America)
it was a warm day
Books are more real when you read them outside.
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again." For a long moment, there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you.
Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
from the book Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
food of the gods with banana bread & a joint
Have you ever blended watermelon before?? It’s so good! Especially for those mushy watermelons. I know you can also add lime and ice to make it even better!
I’m currently reading thyroid healing by @medicalmedium and it’s already so good. When I got diagnosed with Graves’ disease around 6 years ago I was told that my body is attacking itself and that there is no known cause for my autoimmune disease. Many years later I’m finding out that just isn’t true! Your body would never attack yourself, and it never has. Your body works all day every day and all night every night to support you, because it loves you.
People with thyroid conditions have a virus called Epstein bar. Epstein bar starts with mononucleosis. Many people have mono without even knowing. They have it for a week with their sore throat, then it goes away and gets stored in the liver. Later on in life through stress, etc it comes back up again. This makes so much sense for me because I was actually diagnosed with a severe case of mono when I was in high school.
There are things you can do and foods you can eat to kill the Epstein bar virus and heal your thyroid. If people are interested I can share more as I get deeper into the book 😊🌿
reading thyroid healing by medical medium