A new week and a fresh start. Woke up early thanks to another burst of prednisone. After walking out the door I realized my outfit is full on Golden Girls tropical loungewear. One of the last times I wore this I was on vacation in Palm Springs. Sign me up for AARP already! It is my birthday next week, after all. To that end I set up one of those birthday donations that Facebook pesters you about. But this one is for RAICES, the largest immigration legal services non-profit in Texas, focusing on underserved immigrant children, families, and refugees.
Every Father’s Day my step-mother mandates a combined celebration. I was born on my Dad’s birthday so Father’s Day is a three-in-one. Yesterday my son and I drove out to the burbs. In typical Dad fashion he showed off his lovely garden (I did not inherit his green thumb), then bumbled around his house searching nooks and crannies for his treasures. They’re always hidden away in little miniature yellow legal folders. Yesterday it was an assortment of old belt buckles he wanted me to see. Then he asked me to find his old high school girlfriend online. Apparently she had Heterochromia - two different colored eyes - and was Miss White Bear Lake 1963 (and Miss Minnesota 1966, apparently). Just another Sunday with the Morrows.
Five Good Things:
- On this day in 1983 Sally Ride boarded the space shuttle Challenger and became the first American woman in space. That was significant, in general, but especially for nearly ten year old me at the time. I looked up to her so much.
- Deeply appreciated this interview: “Liz Jackson, founder of The Disabled List, talks about the misconceptions around disability and shares practical tips on how to design with disability, not for it.” And their organization’s site is great as well. They ask their members to describe their head shot photos in text and the site can be switched up to use the dyslexie font. From the talk:
- Use your resources to elevate our voices.
- Work with us to reject the norm.
- When we’re finally able to critique the systems that disable us, everybody involved stops seeing our bodies as the problem.
- Design with disability.
- Don’t commit to disability. Commit to disabled people. - In September there will be an Autism Society of MN Self-Advocacy Summit for adults with autism, held by adults with autism. Awesome. I’m encouraging my now-adult son with autism to attend. He wasn’t interested until I said it will be presented by Anime Twin Cities. Maybe he’ll attend if he’s allowed to wear one of his fabulous cosplay outfits.
- This is amusing: “Steve Albini, the poker-playing polymath and iconic producer, won the first-prize gold bracelet and $105,629 at the 2018 World Series Of Poker Seven Card Stud event after returning from a European tour with his band Shellac. What can’t he do?”
- Lastly The Simple Art Historian’s Guide to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Apeshit Video and all the associated GIF-able moments.
Random bonus: This video about How the Internet Works was just the thing this morning.
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