ABOVE: They are singing independence day songs they wrote themselves. (I can’t quite make out the words. It may have something to do with getting Popsicles out of the freezer by yourself? Or maybe it’s nothing like that at all.)
Penny Cooper’s RedCross badge shows she has achieved intermediate swimmer status!
ABOVE: I read this quote last night that reminds me of my temptation for GLP-1 drugs that silence food “noise” as they are calling it. It’s in a memoir by Christopher Isherwood – – he’s talking about his Hindu guru, who told him that being released from desire would mean missing “all the fun of the struggle”.
ABOVE: I read this quote last night that reminds me of my temptation for GLP-1 drugs that silence food “noise” as they are calling it. It’s in a memoir by Christopher Isherwood – – he’s talking about his Hindu guru, who told him that being released from desire would mean missing “all the fun of the struggle”. (Not always so “fun” – – and I certainly think people like Maura’s brother who are chronically, morbidly obese are smart to take Ozempic.)
I read a thing about rats in labs – – they are bored! And so they are more susceptible to fighting and to addiction.
They did this experiment where they gave a bunch of rats a playground – – all the things rats like to do – – and these rats were healthier and friendlier!
I think we are, as a book title says, literally “amusing ourselves to death“ – – because we are bored and we are not spiritually struggling— that’s where the fun comes in!
It is fun to be in the playground of our own lives.
BELOW: cover of a book about a Buddhist take on the Jewish holy days, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared. Always applies, but with a special emphasis for me (us) after Trump’s “big beautiful bill” passed this week.
BELOW: I set up a 4th of July end cap at work …
… and pinned a Thing 2 to my work apron. It’s a tilt-a-whirl world.
