At my mom's again. Doing a lot of fitbymyk videos.

Same thought, I reported it yesterday.

I don't see that our right to even consider traditional roles has been abrogated. I'm a pretty rabid feminist who made the choice of a traditional role, homeschooling, etc.. The difference made by the women's movement is that I had the choice versus not having the choice. If it hadn't worked out I have an escape hatch, courtesy of the women's movement, to get a job, run a business, have a credit card, etc.

I did a four mile bushwhack yesterday. Traveling again today, ugh. Left behind my weights but plan to find a pair at my mother's house.

A friend who works in our local, pretty liberal high school says boys there are very much into Andrew Tate. How will this end?

quoting myself to say - instead of "casually" which denotes low-key engagement, I would rather use "easily." This is a great resource for repair, thank you for posting.

I hear this, but I'll offer an alternate take: when people can talk more casually, seriously, and openly about the immense crime that was enslavement, healing and repair seem closer to possible. I appreciate the honesty of the original post and the responses.

The first enslaved Africans in New England were acquired from the West Indies, exchanged for enslaved Indigenous Pequot people from Massachusetts in 1637. I've been researching the connections between New England and the slavery-based economies of the Caribbean which were pervasive, extensive, and wildly profitable. New Englanders can be somewhat righteous about our abolitionist heritage but Rhode Island was the state with the highest number of slave-trading ships and Boston's wealth was founded on the trade. New Englanders owned, financed, outfitted, and crewed the ships transporting captives from Africa to ports across the West Indies, South America, and the southern US and also traded salt cod and other foodstuffs to the West Indies to feed enslaved people there. Baked beans cooked with molasses and served with brown bread is considered the quintessential New England dish but all that molasses was made by enslaved laborers in the Caribbean. Even though slavery was abolished early in New England many families still profited from it here including ship builders, fishermen, sea captains and sailors, farmers, lumberjacks, carpenters, blacksmiths, coopers, mill workers, and grocery store owners.

@Indigo Blue I love it! I would come play a hand! So fun.

I've made one for ds long ago and a recent one for dd. Dh's was simpler with alder and birch sides, a little crown of beads for the K and Q, a staff for the Bishops, wool strips for reins for the Knights. Dd's was a little more elaborate with pressed flowers glued on, using natural materials from special places for her. My sister's one is going to be similar with apple and fir wood from our childhood home plus dried flowers and seaglass incorporated.

Please do - so cool! Excellent. Can you share a pic when you get it decorated?

I finished the bee platform and will put up a fence around it today. Started the chess set but need someone to cut the apple pieces as they are just too hard for me to saw by hand. I will edit the survey questions today and ask the committee to approve them and start building it. I did a few other things that weren't on my list but I'm ignoring one big task. This week or rather this weekend: put up the bee fence, pull together survey, clean the house, help dd put her stuff away, walk with hiking bestie, hike with other friend, plant peas?? pack to visit my mother, and go. And do the one big task.

Walks and hikes and yard work here, nothing formal.

I am really impressed and grateful. I sent a heartfelt thank you to the student support director. They have suite-style living for seniors only. They don't have an honors dorm but do have chem-free dorm, quiet dorm, and other theme floors eg Russian and other languages. She didn't find anyone she wanted to choose as a roomie for next year so is unfortunately going back into the lottery.