I have been a subscriber to Gabe Fleishers wake up to politics since he was in high school in St Louis where I live. I love having the perspective of someone much younger than me and he really does do a good job of being independent in his perspectives and gives insight that I don't think about due to his age. Worth his newsletter subscription, and he is also now on substack!
Alise! Keep offering the nap! Bet he picks it back up again if he's the age I think he is. And if he doesn't, I highly recommend instituting Quiet Time.
Signed, a baby and toddler sleep consultant with big alone time needs 😉
Ok just started Habits of the Heart and still in the intro and already taking tons of WHOA notes. Excited to get a place to direct my brain energy that hopefully helps me make a little more sense out of all of this— and to get a chance to discuss it with all the thoughtful minds here!
How strange! I also found myself subscribed to that same email list! No idea how I got on it and honestly I can't seem to get off. (Have hit unsubscribe multiple times. Because as much as I, like you, am captured by fascinating random facts, my email already overwhelms me...) But also - their facts are SOOO good! So I randomly read through them before deleting and trying to unsubscribe once more.
The butterfly footnote made me smile. Proud of myself that I already knew the answer (mom of a very inquisitive 6- and 3-year-old and we are in our insect era) Always here for your extended metaphors, Beth!
Four weeks ago surgical biopsies confirmed that my very rare adrenal sarcoma has spread. I am now Stage 4 and looking forward to crafting a life of living well in spite of it all. “It all” includes anything that gets in the way of that. I only wish I had changed my perspective earlier. We spend so much time with things that don’t really matter.
I truly love the Louise Penny/Gamache series...and yet... I have actively discouraged some people I know from reading that particular book because of its subject matter.
Hi Beth, you're never a nuisance. Sometimes I don't comment right away because I'm a slow thinker and sometimes slow thinking means WEEKS and then it seems dumb to comment at all.
I'm going to try reading this book with y'all. I read so little nonfiction because I feel the need to respond, but I'll try. :)
I gifted my 10yo a “Fact a Day” calendar this year, and I look forward to what he has to share each day. The accidental newsletter subscription sounds like a gem in this season.
I realized reading this that I don’t think I’ve ever hit like on anything I read. At about 25 years your senior, it doesn’t occur to me that I actually have any input on what I’m reading beyond the choices I make. Am sorry you missed another information point in your month, you can add a like to every MTS. MTS is the reason I am subscribed. My wife and I are low income, living on our Social Security. I have lived with a disability, unable to work since a car accident 35 years ago. She now has dementia and we are navigating that.
You bring significant value to my life. Thoughtful, deep, well researched pieces, that help me think about things from perspectives beyond my own. Being a lesbian who came out 50 years ago, I could not understand how thoughtful caring people could possibly support a political party that demonized my very existence. (I have never belonged to either party, though I’ve never missed an election since I registered st 18 in 1975. Got to vote for Jimmy Carter twice ;-) Listening to you has helped me understand that. We share many of the same values, I just never found them being articulated in ways I could grasp in the Republican Party. I got caught up in my apparent lack of “Family values” (which my 5 siblings, parents and now 15 nieces, nephews and greats find hysterical) to be able to countenance the party itself.
We were told so often then that we (LGBTQIA+ folks) should change ourselves for the good of society, that it felt like one more way we were being asked to deny ourselves to be asked to vote for a party that demonized us for the good of the nation. I’ve been told I am selfish for not being willing to put others in front of myself and vote republican for the country’s benefit. In all honesty, I have not found Republicans to be of the country’s benefit in my lifetime. My political memories start with JFK’s funeral, sent home from school in first grade when he was killed. I watched his funeral seeing Caroline, who is my age, and John the age of one of my younger siblings, watch their father being buried. Knowing that it could be my father, as he was a Navy pilot and every time he went out to fly he might not come back. Don’t ask me why we knew that so young. It was a different time. I remember watching us land on the moon at 12 in Johnson’s years. My formative political years Richard Nixon was president and the Vietnam war was constantly in the news. Kent State happened, my oldest brother got his draft number. Nixon resigned the year I graduated from high school. Seriously disliked Ronald Reagan, didn’t vote for him as governor of California, and definitely not for President. He was far too simplistic and racist for me.
So thank you. For your time, thoughtfulness, the depth of your research they matches the depth of your love and care of others. You reach many who may, like me, be old enough not to fully participate in this back and forth that we didn’t learn young and are still working on. (I’ll hit like when I read from now on!)
Wow…I know this was written to Beth, yet just came to comment…thank you for your beautiful, vulnerable, wise words ... Hope we both get our SS checks this month! 😉
I have been a subscriber to Gabe Fleishers wake up to politics since he was in high school in St Louis where I live. I love having the perspective of someone much younger than me and he really does do a good job of being independent in his perspectives and gives insight that I don't think about due to his age. Worth his newsletter subscription, and he is also now on substack!
Alise! Keep offering the nap! Bet he picks it back up again if he's the age I think he is. And if he doesn't, I highly recommend instituting Quiet Time.
Signed, a baby and toddler sleep consultant with big alone time needs 😉
Ok just started Habits of the Heart and still in the intro and already taking tons of WHOA notes. Excited to get a place to direct my brain energy that hopefully helps me make a little more sense out of all of this— and to get a chance to discuss it with all the thoughtful minds here!
Spot on. Thank you.
How strange! I also found myself subscribed to that same email list! No idea how I got on it and honestly I can't seem to get off. (Have hit unsubscribe multiple times. Because as much as I, like you, am captured by fascinating random facts, my email already overwhelms me...) But also - their facts are SOOO good! So I randomly read through them before deleting and trying to unsubscribe once more.
Alise, I hope the nap gods were with you this weekend!!!
The butterfly footnote made me smile. Proud of myself that I already knew the answer (mom of a very inquisitive 6- and 3-year-old and we are in our insect era) Always here for your extended metaphors, Beth!
Four weeks ago surgical biopsies confirmed that my very rare adrenal sarcoma has spread. I am now Stage 4 and looking forward to crafting a life of living well in spite of it all. “It all” includes anything that gets in the way of that. I only wish I had changed my perspective earlier. We spend so much time with things that don’t really matter.
Thank you for sharing, Elaine. Sending you a hug and lots of love.
I'm simultaneously so sorry for your news and so inspired the perspective it's helped you achieve.
Footnote made me giggle
Came to say that your footnote was delightful!
I truly love the Louise Penny/Gamache series...and yet... I have actively discouraged some people I know from reading that particular book because of its subject matter.
Hi Beth, you're never a nuisance. Sometimes I don't comment right away because I'm a slow thinker and sometimes slow thinking means WEEKS and then it seems dumb to comment at all.
I'm going to try reading this book with y'all. I read so little nonfiction because I feel the need to respond, but I'll try. :)
This happens to me, too. I wait too long and then think “no one is still having this discussion…”
My podcast would be called "Thoughts About Things that Happened at Least Three Months Ago."
Would subscribe
I think you might be the only one.
I'm in! 😂
Count me in...
I’d be the other. 😬
I gifted my 10yo a “Fact a Day” calendar this year, and I look forward to what he has to share each day. The accidental newsletter subscription sounds like a gem in this season.
Alise, I just got off the Onyx Storm hold list too!! I hope you have the best weekend of reading available to you!
I’m reading it, too!!
Please inform me of this "onyx storm"...I love finding out about an exciting new book!
It’s the third book in a romantasy series!
The first one is called “Fourth Wing”!
I’m currently waiting on the first book. It’ll be a while. Placed the hold 2 weeks ago, moved up like 1 spot in that time (7 ahead of me) 🤪
Thanks!
New subscriber here! Am I able to participate in reading Habits of the Heart? I wasn’t sure what level that was included.
Welcome! This is such a great place to be. Intriguing and grounding perspectives abound!
Yes! Excited that you're here and hope you enjoy it!
I realized reading this that I don’t think I’ve ever hit like on anything I read. At about 25 years your senior, it doesn’t occur to me that I actually have any input on what I’m reading beyond the choices I make. Am sorry you missed another information point in your month, you can add a like to every MTS. MTS is the reason I am subscribed. My wife and I are low income, living on our Social Security. I have lived with a disability, unable to work since a car accident 35 years ago. She now has dementia and we are navigating that.
You bring significant value to my life. Thoughtful, deep, well researched pieces, that help me think about things from perspectives beyond my own. Being a lesbian who came out 50 years ago, I could not understand how thoughtful caring people could possibly support a political party that demonized my very existence. (I have never belonged to either party, though I’ve never missed an election since I registered st 18 in 1975. Got to vote for Jimmy Carter twice ;-) Listening to you has helped me understand that. We share many of the same values, I just never found them being articulated in ways I could grasp in the Republican Party. I got caught up in my apparent lack of “Family values” (which my 5 siblings, parents and now 15 nieces, nephews and greats find hysterical) to be able to countenance the party itself.
We were told so often then that we (LGBTQIA+ folks) should change ourselves for the good of society, that it felt like one more way we were being asked to deny ourselves to be asked to vote for a party that demonized us for the good of the nation. I’ve been told I am selfish for not being willing to put others in front of myself and vote republican for the country’s benefit. In all honesty, I have not found Republicans to be of the country’s benefit in my lifetime. My political memories start with JFK’s funeral, sent home from school in first grade when he was killed. I watched his funeral seeing Caroline, who is my age, and John the age of one of my younger siblings, watch their father being buried. Knowing that it could be my father, as he was a Navy pilot and every time he went out to fly he might not come back. Don’t ask me why we knew that so young. It was a different time. I remember watching us land on the moon at 12 in Johnson’s years. My formative political years Richard Nixon was president and the Vietnam war was constantly in the news. Kent State happened, my oldest brother got his draft number. Nixon resigned the year I graduated from high school. Seriously disliked Ronald Reagan, didn’t vote for him as governor of California, and definitely not for President. He was far too simplistic and racist for me.
So thank you. For your time, thoughtfulness, the depth of your research they matches the depth of your love and care of others. You reach many who may, like me, be old enough not to fully participate in this back and forth that we didn’t learn young and are still working on. (I’ll hit like when I read from now on!)
So glad you're here with us. What a beautiful note ❤️
Wow…I know this was written to Beth, yet just came to comment…thank you for your beautiful, vulnerable, wise words ... Hope we both get our SS checks this month! 😉
I am very grateful for your generous and vulnerable note here 💜