Prodigal Hoosier

My brain has only left the orange & red zones a handful of times. It’s like everyone I know has been playing with cheat codes with access to normal relationships & goals & then y’all fell through your floor and my roof and here we are.

Happy 1 year anniversary to the season 2 finale… babe🫶🏴‍☠️🖤 #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd

Man says father-in-law refusing 'all FEMA help' because of Trump msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/… via @msnbc

Currently, there's a new fight get piecework banned nationwide through the FABRC Act. I would link, but Twitter throttles threads that have outbound links, so I would prefer if you Google how you can support this legislation. Or follow @GarmentWorkerLA for more info.

I am the unofficial supplemental teacher for my boys. Like so many grade school children, they will come home from school and complain about how much homework they have, that the lessons are boring, and, after all, when they are ever going to use what they're learning. Sometimes, it's just a matter of explaining something differently or helping them learn how to seek out other sources. Good students rarely learn something from just a single source or by not playing around with the concepts and techniques. Much of the time, though, I "lead with the wonder," which is in the same spirit as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's powerful observation that, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” I teach them context and connections-- how everything reflects the nature of nature, from human history and behavior to the electricity that powers our smartphones and the computational nature of the world that allows for programs like this one that we use to communicate with each other. They are allowed to ask questions, even questions that are "politically incorrect" to one ideology or another, or to disagree because openness of mind and encouragement of critical thinking, imagination, and exploration are part of the heart and soul of education and citizenship in a democratic society. It's all connected, and therein lies much of the wonder.

SZA on why she’s wearing bug prosthetics for her ‘Hot Ones’ episode: “No other reason, I’m just tired of being… not a bug.”

They were dumb enough to put all this in text message?

How many times have I been told that I am a "complex patient?" as if that relieves the doctor of any responsibility to TRY to understand my condition - let alone treat it. My snarky response is: "if might seem like my disease is 'complex' to you and I get that - your education did not equip you to understand 'complex' conditions - but labelling something complex does not give you a pass for trying to understand it. When i hear "complex patient" from doctors I think what they really mean is that "it is too hard for them to understand and simply not worth their effort." I became an expert. I had no other choice. note: I know there are amazing great committed and brilliant doctors out there. I just wish I had experienced that. The Canadian healthcare system is beyond sub-par.