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Eshet Chayil: Woman of Valor (opens the original)
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Last Friday was the worst day of my entire life. My mother died.It still feels surreal to type, to say, to hear, to feel, to know. I don’t have a lot of words right now because I used them all up writing her obituary and eulogy. I’ve never been so exhausted. My soul groans for relief. My whole family has been overwhelmed with pain and gratitude in equal measure. Pain for the truth of the situation, gratitude for the absolute outpouring of grief alongside us. It feels like someone opened up my ch
🐍 Brandi Carlile, Daddy Snacks, & Vipers! Vipers! Vipers!: Lil Treasures #334 (opens the original)
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Hello my friends we are in the last vestiges of Alabama summer, which is not really the end of summer so much as the end of summer vacation. This means summer camp is no longer operating, my children are ferally consuming potato chips in their pajamas at 2:54pm, and the heat is restructuring my genome. I’m dealing with my problems utilizing soft serve and my Kindle. Everything is going great! Hey so this video of Brandi Carlile playing “Uninvited” at the Newport Folk Festival is my entire person
🦡 Possums, Unrealistic Beauty Standards, & Kenny Ortega Scholarship: Lil Treasures #333 (opens the original)
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Happy 333rd edition of Lil Treasures, which means we’ve been gathering here on Fridays for a little over six years (is that right, math is hard). Last week I mentioned I was in Hoochatown (it’s really Hochatown, but we all call it Hoochatown), Oklahoma for family reunion. We kayaked (I kayaked with an eight-year-old, which is kind of like kayaking with a possum), we swam, and on our last night, we attempted friendship with an actual possum. He did not receive my cousin’s tortilla offering in the
✝️ Honestly what does "biblical" even mean? (opens the original)
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Earlier this month, an article from The Atlantic was passed around our Shelf Respect Slack channel: The End of Reading is Here. If the title sounds depressing, the contents are apocalyptic: In 2022, less than half of American adults read any book at all. In 2023, the percentage of Americans who read for pleasure was 16%, dropping from 28% in 2004. American adults are reading books meant for young adults, no one is reading the newspaper anymore, and reading scores are down. Even worse, those who
✈️ Sense and Sensibility, Plane Evangelism, and the MAHA Blast: Lil Treasures #332 (opens the original)
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Happy Friday! As you read this, I’m in Oklahoma at our annual Family Reunion (yes, we do capitalize that puppy). My dad’s family has been hanging out yearly for something like 65+ years, and it’s a summer tradition for us to load up and head to Hoochatown (yes, a real place) for one weekend. So while I’ll miss you in the comments, I have a lovely collection of treasures for your perusal (like this was a great week for treasures for real).But first!It’s time for another Favored or Forsaken over o
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