Simply Put

Let’s go back to basics a little

Just a “phone call” checking in and talking about expanding our family, becoming a sports mom and a reminder that things are still going on in the world even if I’m not the one to listen to speak on them. Go find the people.

Plenty of quality issues and lots of appearances from little man but I was sent an email and it was a great question so there’s no time like the present to respond

wizard_bizan1 is the account I reference specifically. Also important is adnan.barq, eye.on.Palestine, Antony Loewenstein, the book “The Palestine Laboratory”, and reading about the Israel National Skin Bank. There’s a national institute of health paper on it from 2000 that’s a great place to start

Ashes to ashes may be a thing a little sooner than we all planned.

Let’s talk about school and how what we think is best may not be what’s actually best. I took the conversations published with Mel from 2021 and used those (as well as lots of support from her and other education friends I have) to find a school that we were comfortable with and a school that checked the boxes of what SHE wanted to get out of school, education and finding balance. If we had thought to talk to her about what she felt she needed before we started there would have been a lot less anxiety on all sides. Sometimes it takes a tiny tot to look at you and say the most straightforward, practical thing that never occurred to you, but should have, for you to take a step back and realize you’ve forgotten it’s not just your decision and their little voice needs to be heard and honored as well.

This episode was recorded June 13th but since my daughter just started kinder that means we’ve been having this discussion quite often so there will be a follow up conversation posted this week to talk about the process of choosing a school for her and why we chose what we did for our tiny mixed kid

After 12 requests, 3 weeks, 2 new things, and 42 (now) drafts this is the best I’ve got—It wasn’t long after *that song* came out that people were asking me what I had to say about it and I was so fixated on finding something to say about it that was worth talking about here that I spent many hours, days, and weeks trying to stay on topic and combine all the bits together in one cohesive thing. It just didn’t work. Like the song, don’t like the song in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter but it’s important you look at why you do like it despite the controversy surrounding it. Sometimes the why matters. Sometimes why it matters is just that you’ll admit it to yourself. Texas’ favorite fat, Black, flautist has some accusations against her and there are way better people to talk about it than me so I’m going to cover the part that I’m qualified to talk about (costuming) and stay in my lane the way that white lady on the dock should have.

Is it too good to be true?

We went from the least stigmatized form of social service to one of the most stigmatized forms and if you don’t think this is what it’s like to actually sit across from me and have coffee (GFuel) while talking about something I feel passionate about you’d be wrong. Both programs require families to give the equivalent of their first born in terms of access to their lives and restrictions both programs have. They are meant to be a stepping off point, however, it’s often not able to be utilized that way due to restrictions imposed that will allow the programs to remain funded that weren’t intended to be there. Capitalism gonna capitalize.