prayer bear 🐻📿❤️‍🔥

Guadalupe is literally everywhere

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens. n.pr/42BJyMB

this gave me trauma

I've replaced yapping out loud with yapping with Jesus in my heart

(and he yaps back)

((do NOT go on a silent retreat with >6 hours a day of centering prayer if you don't want to get absolutely Christpilled by the tender mercy of the Divine shining in all things as the mystery of the risen XC))

Alternatively,

Pianist got stomach flu.

Christmas on a Sunday.

(it's actually been really tender and transformative and it's really magical what happens when I shut up for a little bit)

ITS BEEN FOUR DAYS AND I AM DYING TO YAP

Our Lord Jesus Christ commands us to protect the dolls and melt ice

I'm on silent retreat and I'm popping in to say wow God is real and I am getting my soul wrecked by love

and also nothing, NOTHING is funnier than someone ripping ass during an hour-long sit

(The thunderous silence of God, indeed)

image of an orange upholstered conference center chair with zafu and prayer shawl on it, and an icon of Our Lady with the infant Christ on her lap on the wall behind the chair

where I'll be for the next 8 days
#centeringprayer #silence

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

i forgot the most important piece, the
✅ Patagonia socks

I didn't know it was pronounced like that until the Zinedine Zidane football fiasco a few years back lolol

I mean, every other name in that game is RIFE with layers of meaning so it follows that Zidane's should be the same

(my favorite, of course, is Vivi ("I lived!"))

I was today years old when I learned the etymology of Zidane, thank u for this important context (that makes the name make so much more sense)

🥹💖

the current Midwest Millennial White Dad with Five Kids uniform is
✅ bucc-ees shirt
✅ athleisure shorts (Lululemon or other similar make)
✅ hokas (with rainbow soles if you are an ally)

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

this is one of my favorite stories to tell my jyotish students

this is my gender

the author in his Bowser costume

new profile picture dropped

is there a German word for the way you feel when read cringily earnest entries from years-old journals?

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

newest addition to my Way Of Being is a leisurely well-paced jog through the cross country trails in our neighborhood, who the fuck am i becoming right now

(i took a muscle relaxer last night and my pelvic girdle unlocked for the first time in ages and i feel like i'm learning to locomote again)

damn I feel uniquely well-equipped to write an analysis of FFT through the lens of astrological symbolism and to use the game as a teaching text.

Consider:

Virgo is Rāhu's office. If you know who the final boss is, you'll understand why this makes sense. What does Rāhu do when he goes to work?

I don't want to spoil it for any newcomers who haven't played it, but the episode on the castle roof is an extremely poignant reflection on the relationship between power and intention.

And with the Scorpio stone, no less!

♏

FFT Ivalice Chronicles made me cry for the first time last night—the exchange with Rapha and Marach at the conclusion of chapter 3 was so well-acted I had to pause the game and collect myself.

ughhhghghhg tuneyards was so good

baeowulf