We’ve been traveling a fair amount this summer, but not as a household unit. My son has had trips on his own, with his grandparents. And I’ve traveled with him. And my boyfriend went up North without us. And then I went to Missoula with him, but not my son. Much of the summer my son has been nearly off the grid. The past two weeks he was camping with no cell phone service. So it was bittersweet when I received a text from him the other day saying “remember Robin Williams” - without punctuation. More command than question, I would say. I think that’s the worst of the news he’s aware of. His autism makes him a bit oblivious sometimes. But right now that might be all right. The awful stuff is particularly overwhelming right now. The murder of an unarmed teenager and additional injustices in Ferguson, the suffering in Gaza and Syria and Iraq and elsewhere, the Ebola outbreak, the beheading of a journalist by ISIS. The news is bad all over.
Limping along with five good things:
- “Let the 3rd annual Internet Cat Video Festival remind you that there is still good in the world.” It was a bummer that we missed it this year but I’m glad our friends and many others turned out for it.
- An interesting piece about “How Magic Conquered Pop Culture“
- And “The Vicious Circle of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” - apparently my son saw the new movie while he was away.
- My Canadian hairstylist proudly told me about this oddball story. Hitchhiking robot charms its way across Canada: HitchBOT is a robot created by researchers studying the relationship between people and technology
- Super excited about this. “Automata Trailer Shows Off A Robot Action Movie That Gets Robots Right” And the Sci-Fi Western Young Ones also looks interesting.
Last night I attended my son’s high school open house, without him. Today we’re going there together, to wander around. He hasn’t set foot in the building yet and school begins on Monday already. Next week will be a busy one and it will take a while to adjust to our new schedule. But we’ve got to make time to for the MN State Fair. Particularly for the 4-H Lama Costume Contest.
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