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mistrust our measures
Today's subject line comes from this weekend's Live from Here broadcast, in a reading by Lulu Miller, I think around 1 hour and 40 minutes in.
Today's photo is of a jar full of stars -- a birthday gift recently delivered to me:
I do not like having to multitask as often as I do, but being able to fry bacon and mushrooms while attending my church's congregational meeting is a plus, especially as it trundles through its second hour. The meeting started with an exceptionally good tutorial, and I've been jotting down Zoom navigation tips from other members (new to me: to change your name within the Participants list while in a meeting, put the cursor over your name and click "More ->").
The frying is for a quiche I'm pulling together, since there were carrot and kohlrabi tops from last week's market bag. In looking up how to prepare kohlrabi, I ended up giggling at this bit from Martha Rose Shulman [NYT]:
As I told a friend last night, I'd like fewer bugs (both literal and figurative) and more sleep. I'm saying "no" and "later" to various projects to make the more sleep possible, but the docket still overfloweth. The congregation meeting hit the two-hour mark right before the chalice extinguishing. Up next, in my Franklin-Covey-ish blocks:
[A]
finish assembling the quiche (with a substitute for the heavy cream we don't have on hand)
prep for Monday presentation to interns
mark edits to wills/directives
attend an online birthday celebration
write Postcards to Voters
participate in a CalTwerk or Limon workout
do enough Duolingo to stay in Diamond League
log into an SFEMS workshop (aka getting my butt kicked in both theory and sight-singing to get better at both)
laundry
[B]
pick up batteries, mayonnaise, and other sundries
whale through more work
collect library holds
financial housekeeping
yardwork
some personal correspondence
[C] (aka not tonight but this week)
finish three library books, with a Vary the Line post related to the one on translation
yet more paper slinging and filing
research for a nonprofit task force
dance homework
start learning The Armed Man for Stay At Home Choir. First UU's choir sang it 11 years ago for Music Sunday, but I remember very little about it and may well have jumped in on soprano or tenor instead of alto.
continue working on the pieces already assigned to me
more cards and notes, including to some addresses on the Americans of Conscience list
figure out what to plant in the straw bale :
[D] (aka things I might not have time for but may do anyway if I get too crispy around the edges)
watch Stratford's Love's Labor Lost
improve the peanut-butter-whisky + coffee slushies I started mixing last week. I totally admit that I bought the bottle because of the label. (Netting an appalled look from the BYM was merely a bonus.)
Signal boosts:
The Okra Project
Wiggle Room (disclosure: a friend is on their team)
The SIJS (Special Immigrant Juvenile Status) Project (disclosure: a friend runs this)
Onward, y'all. Stay safe (within what's feasible, especially considering the demands made by both the rest of society and our individual souls) and keep in touch.
Today's photo is of a jar full of stars -- a birthday gift recently delivered to me:
I do not like having to multitask as often as I do, but being able to fry bacon and mushrooms while attending my church's congregational meeting is a plus, especially as it trundles through its second hour. The meeting started with an exceptionally good tutorial, and I've been jotting down Zoom navigation tips from other members (new to me: to change your name within the Participants list while in a meeting, put the cursor over your name and click "More ->").
The frying is for a quiche I'm pulling together, since there were carrot and kohlrabi tops from last week's market bag. In looking up how to prepare kohlrabi, I ended up giggling at this bit from Martha Rose Shulman [NYT]:
Every time I work with kohlrabi I wonder why I don’t buy it more often.
If you receive it in your CSA basket and you’ve never worked with it before, you may find the thick-skinned vegetable puzzling, maybe even daunting. As the nutritionist Jonny Bowden describes it in his book The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, kohlrabi “looks like a cross between an octopus and a space capsule.” That’s true, especially if the greens are still attached. If they’re not, it just looks like a space capsule.
As I told a friend last night, I'd like fewer bugs (both literal and figurative) and more sleep. I'm saying "no" and "later" to various projects to make the more sleep possible, but the docket still overfloweth. The congregation meeting hit the two-hour mark right before the chalice extinguishing. Up next, in my Franklin-Covey-ish blocks:
[A]
[B]
[C] (aka not tonight but this week)
[D] (aka things I might not have time for but may do anyway if I get too crispy around the edges)
Signal boosts:
The Okra Project
Wiggle Room (disclosure: a friend is on their team)
The SIJS (Special Immigrant Juvenile Status) Project (disclosure: a friend runs this)
Onward, y'all. Stay safe (within what's feasible, especially considering the demands made by both the rest of society and our individual souls) and keep in touch.