Cheers (drink to that)

Temperature: a lush but cool 10/50 degrees

Eating: some lunch salad in a minute

Drinking: a friend of mine certainly is; when she is happy and when she is sad, when she wants to celebrate or commiserate, any excuse will do, really, but I don’t think she needs one anymore, she needs that drink and since she’s a big girl she’s having it, she doesn’t need anyone’s permission; and her friends have tried tough love, we’ve tried talking sense and health, physical and mental, every angle we can think of, but she’s not listening, she’s withdrawing, and if you’ve ever been there you know the pain and sorrow and horror we’re all feeling watching her drown in something that used to be a fun night out

Watching: The Ice Hockey World Championships, look at those Finns go! (Förlåt, Sverige, bara en kan vinna.)

Listening: to my kids make music every chance they get, sure I’m biased but wow

Reading: I want to recommend some: How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.

Thinking: Time to vote, Europe! We got an awesome Eurovision winner (no flashy costume, no fireworks, just a song, a story, not from a hit factory but the heart), now it's time to choose us a new parliament. And please please please not something along the lines of Poland's Law and Justice, which serves neither. In a session that took a mere 3 hours and 37 minutes they went for the jugular, the judiciary, and it's been all downhill from there. Let's not take that path. Let's not bring more provincial bickering, more division, more strong-arming into a house that must work together to tackle the problems that concern and threaten us all.

Feeling: Re the U.S. abortion bans: We're back there again? Women are shocked but not surprised. Also, we're frustrated, and exhausted of having to prove our full humanity when it should be a given. But it's not. It's still not. Not by a long shot and not universally as it should be. Help us out, gentlemen. Don't just empathize; sympathize, out loud. And many of you do and it's wonderful and we're grateful, but let's keep going. Let's keep showing up and speaking up and letting the powers that would like us to sit down and shut up know that we're present and listening and watching closely. And we're not gonna take it. We won't be subjugated or silenced. We are NOT going back there again, we are moving forward, together.