Seasonal Sundays (Week 24) Mid June
Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ...
Thank you lot for peeking in, for next , for counting on me.
A calendar week of enormity is at nowadays past. A calendar week of ... ... ... what? ... ... ... lies ahead.
In books, inward movies, inward boob tube shows, nosotros rarely encounter that cardinal life activity, the attention together with feeding (and cleanup, thence much cleanup! together with laundry!) of those nosotros love.
This week? I'm focusing on summertime drinks. If e'er at that spot were a fourth dimension to remain cool, remain hydrated ... it's now.
C'mon in, sit down awhile, get got a sip ...
About the Photo By Popular Request, a Little Insight into the Top Image, What I've Mentally Titled, What Does My Sign Say?: This calendar week has me all twisted upwardly but leaning inward too. These things I know. Systemic Racism is Real. Police Violence Against Black People Is Real. Black Lives Matter. But what is the correct affair to think? say? do? For days, I've watched the signs our protesters carry. The fightin' words. Fighting for justice, for fairness. Fighting for really breath, for really life. If my feet were inward the streets where my pump together with the grandchildren are, what would my sign say? How utilisation I earn the correct to move recognized every bit an ally, an advocate, an admirer? How utilisation I stand upwardly tall together with clear-eyed, my sign inward hand, come upwardly what may? These are questions of courage nosotros must challenge ourselves to answer, every bit individuals, every bit families, every bit communities, every bit a nation, every bit humanity.
And Then? I Found My Sign
I wrote what's inward a higher house on Saturday. At the same time:
- The people of my onetime St. Louis town of Kirkwood, Missouri marched en masse betwixt 2 schools, filling a street alongside thousands of peaceful, mask-wearing folks of all colors, all ages: such a minute of determined unity for a town which grapples hard-hard-hard alongside race issues, specially later tragedy pushed us into the headlines, Tonight, inward One Small Town Called Kirkwood.
- Yesterday's TV covered the hundreds together with hundreds of protests across the province together with across the world. It all made my tough-guy married adult man a tiny fleck teary. "The protestors brand me proud to move an American."
- The mayor of DC unleashed moxie, volunteers together with buckets of xanthous pigment to proclaim to all the world, Black Lives Matter.
This morning time I jumped out of bed, went similar a shot to the basement for paint. I'd constitute my sign.
It's a journey, my friends. If you're looking, I promise you'll discovery your sign too.
Love to all ... hang inward there.
Recommended Listening
From NPR's It's Been a Minute on June 5th's program, a conversation alongside a mom of 3 dark boys together with how "the talk" has changed over the years. It starts close 26:30. The existent gold, however? Near the really end, wow, it gets real: catch a tissue.
PICK ONE
Pick One is for those of us overwhelmed yesteryear life's unending choices. If that resonates, together with thence cheque out this 1 recipe together with and thence telephone telephone it a day. It's 1 that I intend could brand the most difference, the 1 I promise volition function a regular inward your kitchen, every bit it is inward mine.
- THE RECIPE Cold-Brewed Coffee Low-acid cold-brewed java makes perfect iced java for hot summers.
Seasonal Showcase: Cold Drinks for Summer Heat
- THE RECIPE Thirst-Quenching, Low-Cal, Low-Alcohol Drinks Better stock upwardly on ginger ale.
- THE RECIPE Hibiscus Tea alongside Ginger & Vanilla
- THE RECIPE Cucumber Lemonade, refreshing addition such pretty color
- THE RECIPE Bloody Caesar Canada's Bloody Mary
- THE RECIPE Jealous Marys, non bloody, but greenish alongside envy
- THE RECIPE Vegetables 101: How to Revive Fresh Greens
Just Updated!
- THE RECIPE Zucchini Spiral "Noodle" Salad
- THE RECIPE Homemade Fresh Basil Pesto Without Cheese Lets the basil smoothen inward a novel way.
- THE RECIPE Zucchini Bread alongside Carrot & Candied Ginger A classic quick bread, streaked alongside carrot together with studded alongside candied ginger.
- THE RECIPE Rhubarb Cake Simple together with rustic, less sugariness to gustatory modality rhubarb's wonderful "sour".
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