five little things that made my week:
1. this apple cider in this mug.
{because for a day there it was cool enough to warm it up and have a snuggle.}
2. this tub of hummus.
{refilled around the corner. emptied right here at home.}
3. these magenta mums.
{hello october.}
4. this little pack.
{ready to spend the night at grammy and grandpa’s.}
5. this button.
{and the most poignant performance i’ve seen in a long time.}
other things:
spaces we make when we can’t be there in person.
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Good Morning Erin! How do you clean the backpack? Faye’s looks clean in the photograph. My kid has a yellow one and just a rag with soapy water doesn’t seem to do a thing. Thanks and have a good weekend!
HA! It’s actually pretty filthy! And true confessions, I haven’t cleaned it yet!
Haha! I don’t feel so bad now. Learned my lesson color choice-wise though!
Your round-ups are truly the best. I want to gather all my yarn scraps and start knitting that blanket right away. I want to send Oluo’s piece to everyone I know. My partner & I (both white) just finished a round of apartment applications & interviews in a very competitive city, and frankly it felt the biggest exercise in institutional privilege. So the question of “”Who is it not easy for? And what can I do to dismantle that system?”” is forefront on my mind, and so eloquently explained there. Oluo writes “But in order to do that, you have to be willing to look at it and see it as a part of the system of whiteness because that’s what it is.” — I’m hopeful that once we’re settled in to our new city, we can get involved in local housing politics to contribute to chipping away at this very rigged system.
That part of the piece struck me the most too. Thank you for always sharing such thought-provoking things Erin!
Sahadi’s!! One of my most favorite places. Yum!
Ah, Sahadi’s, the #1 thing I miss about Brooklyn. Anytime a friend visits me from my erstwhile borough, they bring me a bag of Sahadi’s dates. WHY are they the best dates on earth? WHAT is their secret?
‘I hope that we can start looking at kindness, which is honest and built with love, over niceness, which prioritizes comfort over safety.’
This spoke to me today. We are a white family considering moving back to our native St. Louis, where race problems seem to reign, and are trying to make the decision between living in the city with kindness, or in the county with niceness. I really want to choose kindness.
That scrap blanket is gorgeous! Seems way too simple/traditional to require a $ pattern, though: https://www.theknittingsquirrel.com/how-to-knit-a-mitred-square-blanket/
Fires are so enticing, I agree, but here in London we’ve just had a pretty brutal report on our air quality and there’s talk of banning wood-burners (open fires are already subject to various rules). It’s sad but I think we have to move on and have fires (indoor and outdoor) only very occasionally as special treats. Even if you live in a place without regulations, the reasons for the regulations apply everywhere! https://www.theguardian.com/money/2005/dec/13/ethicalmoney.leohickmanonethicalliving https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/04/revealed-every-londoner-breathing-dangerous-levels-of-toxic-air-particle
Ah yes, for every point, a counterpoint. Special occasions, indeed! (Regarding knitting, of course folks with the talent and wherewithal are free to freestyle their own blankets, but for folks who need more guidance or want to follow a pattern exactly, I think paying folks a nominal fee for the pattern they’ve designed is a great idea!)
I miss Sahadi Brothers!
I was in Brooklyn visiting my sister a couple of weeks ago and was very excited to see those brown bins. We saw them in Montreal two summers ago and I wondered when I would see them in NYC!
Love your pictures so much! It just makes me wanna take pictures of the little things i have laying around! Haha!
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