Monday: Yom Kippur, book group, no school
Sep. 28th, 2020 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutNo school today, as our district allows the day for the observance of Yom Kippur.
I read about half of this month’s book group selection, _Braiding Sweetgrass_, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is really enjoyable, braiding together stories of the author’s families, description of indigenous perspectives, and botany. I expect I will finish it. It is an unusual book, in that our group _both_ all enjoyed it and it generated a vigorous conversation — that almost never happens. Good convos usually come out of trying to understand what we did not care for — books we love generate a pretty bland sense of agreement. But this really got us talking about what we need to change and what individual steps might start getting us there.
I walked with M.
I went grocery shopping, because I went to pick up lunch for A. at McD’s (we were out of cheese for her grilled cheese sandwich), the McD’s in Maynard had a bunch of fire department vehicles, audible alarms and, obviously, was not serving customers. So I went and bought the cheese and the rest of the grocery list instead and made her lunch.
I ran roomba.
I ordered a Globe-Wernicke flat file cabinet from a seller on Etsy; it seems to date from the 1940s. I am seriously excited to get the portfolio folders emptied out into drawers and the balance of the space made available for a combination of prints (so I can change up what is in the frames on the wall more often) and legos (and flat space for builds that can be tucked back away, if I understand this thing correctly). The cabinet was surprisingly expensive, however, these things seem to run kind of expensive. It is what it is.
I read about half of this month’s book group selection, _Braiding Sweetgrass_, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It is really enjoyable, braiding together stories of the author’s families, description of indigenous perspectives, and botany. I expect I will finish it. It is an unusual book, in that our group _both_ all enjoyed it and it generated a vigorous conversation — that almost never happens. Good convos usually come out of trying to understand what we did not care for — books we love generate a pretty bland sense of agreement. But this really got us talking about what we need to change and what individual steps might start getting us there.
I walked with M.
I went grocery shopping, because I went to pick up lunch for A. at McD’s (we were out of cheese for her grilled cheese sandwich), the McD’s in Maynard had a bunch of fire department vehicles, audible alarms and, obviously, was not serving customers. So I went and bought the cheese and the rest of the grocery list instead and made her lunch.
I ran roomba.
I ordered a Globe-Wernicke flat file cabinet from a seller on Etsy; it seems to date from the 1940s. I am seriously excited to get the portfolio folders emptied out into drawers and the balance of the space made available for a combination of prints (so I can change up what is in the frames on the wall more often) and legos (and flat space for builds that can be tucked back away, if I understand this thing correctly). The cabinet was surprisingly expensive, however, these things seem to run kind of expensive. It is what it is.