So fickle. Minnesota doesn’t care if we’ve made plans. Schedule a wedding on a Saturday in June? You’re gonna get a thunderstorm and maybe a bonus tornado. Sign up to have a booth at an art fair in July? One year you’ll get chilly weather in the 50s with rain and the next will be a heat wave with air quality alerts. And if you even think about having events in winter - indoors or out - you’ll get a surprise half foot of snow dumped on you just because, followed by bizarrely cold weather and dangerous snow-covered icy roads. “Coming our way: Up to 11 inches of snow, then dangerous cold. Windchills of up to 60 below are possible in rural areas.” Cool. If I’d realized what lay ahead I would have made more of an effort to get to some events earlier today. Like the 43rd Annual Saintly City Cat Show, the 18th Annual Winter Kite Festival or the 12th Annual Art Sled Rally. At least I did make it out to a portion of the 6th Annual Drone Not Drones last night at The Cedar Cultural Center, and am live streaming the rest of it from the safety and comfort of my own home.
Five Good Things:
- Hell yeah! A HUGE shout out to these folks. How air traffic controllers helped end the shutdown — and changed history:
A small group of strategically placed workers just acted to help bring a widely detested shutdown to an end. They refused to play the role of victim and instead became agents of their own liberation. By doing so, they might have also put the nation on a new political vector.
- Yalitza Aparicio Makes History as the First Indigenous Best Actress Oscar Nominee. About time! More: Yalitza Aparicio of ‘Roma’ and the Politics of Stardom in Mexico: The film’s star was on her way to being a teacher when she landed the role. Now she’s part of a conversation about Indigenous people and inequality.
- This morning I replaced the sad phone I broke (again) last weekend. This time I got an extra tough case with a screen protector. And I got bluetooth pairing to work after it was being fussy. I am loving the iPhone XS camera with portrait mode. While out I also stocked up on groceries, ahead of tomorrow night’s expected blizzard and the rest of the week’s sci-fi sounding low temps.
- Some parenting anecdotes I wrote were published in Hilary Frank’s latest book, Weird Parenting Wins. Guess it made the audiobook as well but I picked up a hard copy at Moon Palace Books yesterday. There were too many contributors to give us all free books, I guess. More from Hillary Frank on parenting.
- Been listening to SO much King Woman lately. Including their Stone Roses cover. I’m very excited for the return of Boy Harsher to Minneapolis, with King Woman side project NGHTCRWLR opening. Gonna be so good.
My special man friend and I had a productive face-to-face conversation the other night. He opened with “I’ve handled this poorly.” Understated yet accurate. We discussed communication and expectations and anxiety and patched things up. Everything is peachy now. Hopefully we can prevent unnecessary angst in the future. If not we can part ways, for real, but only after some more respectful discourse. Not via email.
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