Just Personal

All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

Time Change [Explained]

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It harms your lungs and it’s especially bad for children (and pets!) or anyone with health problems. There are all kinds of chemicals in that smoke. It’s not only trees that are burning. The heat already makes it harder to breath. This makes it worse.

If any of you are experiencing it, feel free to tell about it in the comments. 💚

But then my husband and I got curious and decided to look up the history of wheelbarrows, and we both thought it was surprisingly interesting.

The very next day, we were visiting a thrift store with family and my sister spotted a toy wheelbarrow for her son, and my husband said, “Did you know that Jesus was older than wheelbarrows? They weren’t invented until around 100 CE.”

Box for Storing Monk’s Robes, 1400s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Chinese Art

This precious lacquer box is decorated with bird and plant motifs and figures in mother-of-pearl inlay. The decoration does not relate to Buddhism, but depicts the leisurely pursuit of scholars in nature and a garden setting. Scholars play the board game weiqi, have philosophical conversations, pluck a qin (a zither-like instrument with strings), and read books. Lacquer chests of this type stored garments and this particular one may have been presented to a priest, abbot, or monk of a monastery by a wealthy patron. This explains the secular subject matter and luxurious decoration. The mother-of-pearl inlay technique was typically practiced in Hangzhou city and other parts of southeast China. Size: Overall: 43 x 56 x 54.7 cm (16 15/16 x 22 1/16 x 21 9/16 in.) Medium: lacquered wood with mother-of-pearl inlay