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I was tagged by @my-turningpages , thank you!! I love your account sm. Favorite color/s: Light purple and black (I know that black is a shade but I love it!) Last song: On the floor Jennifer Lopez Last movie: Instant family Last show: 2 Broke Girls! Sweet, spicy, or savory: I love savory and spicy!! I'm really good with spice. Bubbly water, coffee or tea: Coffee and tea! Lately I've been loving a french vanilla cappachinos from Tim Hortons.

thinking about when i was small, how my mom told me that pipe cleaners were just a tool until people started idly shaping things with them and it grew so popular that they were marketed as crafting materials. and that story about how the original frisbees were disposable pie plates that students flattened to throw. and how when i was a child i had a wooden mancala set with shiny, colorful stones, but on invention it was played with rocks and grooves dug into the dirt. and middle school, paper football and tic-tac-toe and mash and mad libs, games that just need pen and paper. and before that, games of pretend with pirates and princes and masked marauders. how at slumber parties after lights out, we used to whisper storytelling games, i say one sentence and you say the next. and shadow puppets. and the way all the kids in the neighborhood used to divide into teams and throw fallen pine cones at one another. and the floor is lava game, and the quiet game, and the games i play with my coworkers that are just words and retention. and "put a finger down" on the high school bus. and little girls clapping together, and how the first jump-rope was undoubtedly just a length of rope who knows how long ago, and how natural it is to play, how we seek play at every age and with any resources we have and with whatever time we can squeeze it into in a day. i'm not an anthropologist or a psychologist but i think after food and shelter and water and air what comes next is games and stories and laughter. i think that there is nothing -- not sex or fighting or forming unlikely bonds with animals -- there is nothing more human than to play.

make it clear that antisemitism won’t be tolerated on your blog. jews are feeling unsafe and helpless, and if you don’t say or do anything to help, then you’re just giving antisemites a place where they feel comfortable. 

my brain during sex ed in school

Shout out to all the people who are still social distancing and wearing masks. Thank you for still taking this pandemic seriously and understanding how an illness can spread from person to person. I pray that the universe provides you with an infinite amount of abundance.