Two hours in, two hours back. The rest of the time at Urgent Care, they sent us to the ER. Prognosis? Diverticulitis. CT scan proved it.
BRAT diet for a few days, antibiotics. Rest. Then lots of fiber. I already eat a salad a day. Intermittent Fasting is going to be hard with the BRAT. Oh, well. Maybe when it’s healed, I can get back to healthy eating.
Hope your day was better than mine! Have a great weekend!
We took our walk this morning. But I spent the rest of the day sleeping. If the fever is still there tomorrow, we’ll drive to the UC and see what’s up.
Hope you all are doing well.
Wildflower: A Memoir by Aurora James
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wow, what a woman! I am very impressed with this young lady. For that, I want to make sure people read this book.
On the other hand, as an audiobook, I found Aurora’s reading got harder to take as the more excited she was about what had happened lately, the faster she read. Toward the end of the book, I could barely understand her. Here is the blurb that pulled me to the read. Maybe it reads better in book form or with Kindle text-to-speech.
Aurora James’s life is a great American “success story”—precisely because it looks so different from others we’ve seen. Born in Canada to a counterculture mother, James was raised to question everything—specifically the very institutions that have shaped so many of us. When James was seven, her mother married a man who would move them to Jamaica, where James would learn harsh lessons about control, power, abuse, and belonging. Eventually she would find her way back home to Toronto, where her blue-eyed and fair-haired grandmother welcomed her with unconditional love—and inadvertently showed her that racism is the water in which we are all submerged.
Scouted as a model in eighth grade, James struggled with body image and became disenchanted by the industry’s objectification of women and commodification of race and culture. After she dropped out of high school, a flirtation with street racing led to her eventual arrest. She’d hit rock bottom, but as a visionary and optimist, she allowed that experience to become one of many that reshaped her way of thinking about the world. A slew of fashion-related jobs led James to discover the real power in creating for the runway, and she started her own business in a flea market: a sustainable fashion line showcasing traditional African designs that would become an award-winning international brand. But none of this came from a drive to “succeed.” It came from a desire to forge a new creative path—and to lift others up alongside her.
Already a rising star in fashion and the first Black female designer to win a Council of Fashion Designers of America Award, James posted a revolutionary idea in the wake of George Floyd’s murder that connected economics to racial justice in a way that has forever changed the American economic landscape. With that Instagram post, she founded the Fifteen Percent Pledge, which challenges retailers to commit 15 percent of their shelf space and spending power to Black businesses and is one of the fastest-growing social justice nonprofits. To date, more than two dozen of the world’s most recognized retailers have taken the pledge, redirecting $10 billion in annual revenue to Black and BIPOC brands.
Empowering and full of heart, Wildflower is the riveting story of how Aurora James made an indelible mark the American economic system, and a rallying cry for those eager to make change.
Fever, achy. Napping. Hope you are all doing okay.
Instead, I thought I’d better capture the greenery while I can. We are green usually only early Spring. But here we are nearly July when yellow and hot dust is the norm for the desert Outback of Oregon.
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So, I think I know what I want to wear for my daughter and her fiancé’s October costume wedding. Crone witch! I can make my own hat and cape! The crone part is built in!🤪
So at the beginning of the weekend I was working with Scarlett Royal’s loomknit witch’s hat. But I learned there would be a lot of sewing.
I had socks on the Flexes so I transferred by way of a skinny set of ChiaoGoo Red-lace Circular Needles. I had started on the 12 peg loom for the brim and the 36 peg for the hat. That was when I noticed I’d have a lot of sewing ahead.
In the past, I learned I could do a nice decrease using the Flexees. But for this witch hat I needed to get a good point. I didn’t feel I could figure that out. Here’s her YouTube if you want to try.
I think this next one by PleasantSeas may do the trick. After tinking and frogging all weekend, I found and started working on it.
I read the pattern featured on the YouTube page. That I can do. I told myself. It starts similar to my Toe-up Two At A Time Socks. So I followed the pattern about 17 rows in. Then I noticed that it seemed the author got the numbering wrong. Once again, my tracking was off. Still I was liking how it was turning out.
Here’s what I should have done:
But here’s what I have at Row 17.
Anyway, I think I’ll continue as I am going until the “wearable” part of the hat gets close. Then I’ll increase faster as PleasantSeas does. I think I want the point high or curly. We’ll see how that turns out.
Meanwhile, the socks I pulled off the Flexee looms, looks like this:
Sadly, the Flexees are empty. Back to just needle knitting for now.
But now I need to drop the needles and hop on the stationary bike to see if I can make up the mile(s) we missed this morning.
Tell Me Everything: A Memoir by Minka Kelly
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The name Mindy Kelly didn’t ring a bell. I still am not sure I have ever seen her in shows. But the book was recommended on one of the morning shows, and I thought I’d look it up. Luckily Libby had the audio version. Mindy reads her autobiography quite well.
Ms. Kelly’s life was nothing like my own. I felt awful for her for the things she had to survive as a child and teen. But I do appreciate her spirit to try to live properly and healthily. She is an inspiration in how she looks at life now, and her attitude seems to pay her well.
If you read this, keep the Kleenex handy, as the end parts are very touching. I highly recommend listening to this book. There is a lot of knowledge and power packed into her life and her story,
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “starts with ‘ab’.” Find a word that starts with “ab” and use it in your post. Enjoy!
I absolutely love the sky out here. Especially the sunsets.
I feel like the absent minded professor right now. I can’t seem to think of what to write about. Sometimes my brain goes to the absurd and I don’t want to abstain from writing but find myself absorbed in the many abiding abilities and lack thereof calling to me. Too bad the prompt isn’t ADD. But that is just an abuse of a good prompt!🤪
Then again, I did a bit of that, too.
I’d love to say I’d hit more piano than one song, but I still feel happy that I did what I did. Trying to keep it fun so I want to go back.
We just hit our 20th year married, 30 together. That should be considered an accomplishment! Still in love and laugh a lot!
The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year by Andy Cohen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
First of all, this is someone’s diary. Who can judge? It’s the part of his life he wanted to notate. That said, I admit wishing I was finished listening/reading less than halfway in. I did learn more about writing and reading my memoir aloud. So there’s that.
This is LGBTQ month, so it was fun to ponder Andy Cohen’s life in 2014. That part I didn’t mind. I did get tired of the name-dropping of all his friends. But like I said before, this is his diary. It gave him good feelings to know and remember later.
What I did enjoy was his pup. I loved hearing about someone enjoying receiving and living with a dog. I miss my Kali so much. But Andy loves his dog so much that he gave him an Instagram account. I may have to look that up. Wacha! What a cute name.
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