“Rain is a very special blessing,” my mother says. Even when I was little, she’d already been saying it to my sister and me for as long as I could remember. Just as my grandmother had said it to her, when my mother was not my mother but only herself, in the dry Texas summers of her own childhood. Eons ago and continents away, as children reckon these things.
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Class, We Have A Substitute for Today
Running low on spoons at the moment. I was going to have my “comments are back” announcement be today’s post, but then Chris Ferdinandi, one of my favorite bloggers, wrote a post about “Spreading Joy” and I had to share. Here’s an excerpt:
Yesterday, I found myself being extra friendly even when the guy behind the deli counter at the market was standoffish at the start.
He opened up eventually.
I told a woman I loved her anchor-pattern dress (because I love anchors and really did!), and found out she was headed to a wedding on a boat that afternoon, and was there to pick up a cake!
I’ve gotten so jaded and angry (because there’s a lot to be angry at) that I’d kind of forgotten how to have real, genuine joy.
It was a good reminder that I need to hold on to that, because fascism hates joy and spreading it is anti-fasc.
There’s lots more great reads on his daily developer tips page. Most of them are programming-related, but quite a few of them (like this one) aren’t. Go check it out!
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