some gratitude
I need to focus on gratitude, I suspect. Because otherwise my head will explode with rage and frustration and grief. So I will take a clue from some of y'all.
5 things I am grateful for:
1. The coworkers I shriek about politics with (most over text), because we're all kind of fucked because of what we do. Fascists and oligarchs don't much care about environmental protection, after all…
2. The grilled-cheese sandwich I just ate, made on homemade bread with good cheddar and pepper-jack cheese and too much butter. I had food poisoning on Sunday and yesterday I only ate bananas and ginger ale. So tonight it was lovely to have something comforting and filling that I knew wouldn't hurt me.
3. This post by Courtney Schafer at LadyBusiness with a bunch of recommendations for fantasy novels by women. Includes some of my favorites: the Dhulyn & Parno novels by Violette Malan, which are just classic sword-and-sorcery with a feminist twist; and the Inda sequence by Sherwood Smith, which are big fat epic fantasy that also has a feminist twist. And because there are two recs I concur with, I'm going to check out Amanda Downum too.
4. Diane Duane: I reread Intellivore yesterday, while I was recovering from my bout of food poisoning. And today I'm rereading Dark Mirror. I do love her oh-so-sciencey view of the Federation and surrounding territories. And her ridiculous alien scientists. Duane is definitely comfort-reading, and I need that right now.
5. My ridiculous dog, who is silly and demanding and has a bladder apparently the size of a peanut.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
5 things I am grateful for:
1. The coworkers I shriek about politics with (most over text), because we're all kind of fucked because of what we do. Fascists and oligarchs don't much care about environmental protection, after all…
2. The grilled-cheese sandwich I just ate, made on homemade bread with good cheddar and pepper-jack cheese and too much butter. I had food poisoning on Sunday and yesterday I only ate bananas and ginger ale. So tonight it was lovely to have something comforting and filling that I knew wouldn't hurt me.
3. This post by Courtney Schafer at LadyBusiness with a bunch of recommendations for fantasy novels by women. Includes some of my favorites: the Dhulyn & Parno novels by Violette Malan, which are just classic sword-and-sorcery with a feminist twist; and the Inda sequence by Sherwood Smith, which are big fat epic fantasy that also has a feminist twist. And because there are two recs I concur with, I'm going to check out Amanda Downum too.
4. Diane Duane: I reread Intellivore yesterday, while I was recovering from my bout of food poisoning. And today I'm rereading Dark Mirror. I do love her oh-so-sciencey view of the Federation and surrounding territories. And her ridiculous alien scientists. Duane is definitely comfort-reading, and I need that right now.
5. My ridiculous dog, who is silly and demanding and has a bladder apparently the size of a peanut.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.