(Grandma says she doesn’t expect to break that record at this point, but if she lives as long as her mom did, she could make it to second place.)

They’ve finally made the choice to move into the “catered living” part of the community, after 28 years in their cottage. Which is 4x the longest either of them has ever lived in any one house before.

My grandparents both grew up as Methodist pastors kids, and then went into ministry themselves (though grandma’s formal status was as a missionary and many lay leadership roles), and after retirement moved into the local United Methodist retirement home (where their parents also lived)

One of the hallmarks of Methodist Polity for hundreds of years has been the itineracy of our clergy. From the olden days where pastors rode circuits, to now when appointments tend to average closer to seven years.

I have needed to read this book on my shelf for [checks how old youngest child is] three and a half years, and it seems like it comes at the trauma in the body thing from a much less yucky direction hillarylmcbride.com/the-wisdom-o...

Now, I happen to have been learning from @snarkbat.bsky.social for a couple decades, and you can all look through her excellent back catalogue of social media posts and essays. But I need my colleagues and libraries to have this book.

Actually, I do have more to say about this book and how excited I am about it. As a therapist, I often am working with clients who struggle with internalized ableism, and it is almost never the “presenting problem”, so they didn’t seek out a therapist with that specialty.

Okay but is this the evolution of the yacht-sinking mega orcas and they’re gonna be attacking the rich folks on land now?

There’s no chance it’s been consistently removed before sensitizing for 28 years, right? That thing is so wiped. Wow!

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I inhaled most of this @snarkbat.bsky.social jawn in one day because as usual Elsa's writing is just soooo smart + wise + kind + fucking funny + yummy-snax readable

and THIS IS A BOOK THAT EVERY HUMAN SHOULD READ

because it's about how we love each other better?

and it's INTERESTING AF

so:

And we have to wait til *October* for it 😭

And for sure there’ve been Americans working in the Vatican before, so it’s not completely new paperwork. But, like, does the Pope have a salary? Is it all housing allowance?

I was pondering whether he would have renounced his citizenship, but keeping it means that Trump can’t keep him out of the country.

I was thinking about clergy taxes this morning and wondering how the Pope is doing his.

And two bucks a minute?! That’s so exploitative of folks in spiritual crisis.

Hard to believe that little place boasts itself as the Oyster Capital of the World!

I quoted it in a sermon (slightly sanitized)

Glad to see the first one that came to mind for me is there: “you’ve fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did!”

I see you!

Dear Christians who like to appropriate Judaism: Jesus did NOT have a Passover seder, (that developed after the fall of the 2nd Temple in 70 CE) but he WAS commanded to clean leaven from his house, so if you want the fun! parts of being a Jew, you can enjoy scrubbing your fridge like I am now 💕

How in the world did my phone make “rescue” into “specie”?!

Anyway. Part of the retelling that wasn’t in the first 15 minutes of the first episode is that the pills in the teacher’s first aid kit were crushed on impact because of how hard he fell. (It was either iodine tablets or medicine)

In the last 22 years I’ve told stories about Garfield to people who knew its reputation, or who didn’t, and shrugged about rumours about teachers, the series of lockdowns in sophomore year, the massive racial disparities that the school exemplified…but I don’t know the details of this story yet.

I am on the edge of my seat waiting for my wife to take the kids to bed so I can start the first episode. And I’m thinking about the parallels in schools and churches and charismatic leadership and how it echoes through time and how we don’t exactly tell the stories completely to the next generation

It’s so fitting that, a month after it started, my mom sent me a link to this series. The specie story was still retold during my time on the Post in 2000-2004, and the echoes of the other part of the story were pretty apparent to me. Looking forward to listening!

🤦🏻‍♀️*did* my undergrad. Almost 20 years ago.

It’s kind of like talking about “high school” in Europe.

From what I’ve been informed, “college” almost exclusively refers to what US residents would call “community college” or more vocationally-focused programs. Not the “read Thucydides and Plato and Foucault” kind of place I do my undergrad.

Moving to Canada as an alumni of a “small liberal arts college” means either adjusting my language about my education or adjusting to people being confused about my education.

You may need birth and death certificates back to your great grandfather, which sometimes requires the next of kin to access (so, possibly your adoptive father’s assistance)

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It’s a common reminder in clergy groups this week every year 😅