Timelies all!
Quiet weekend here. Probably a good bit of basketball watching. And another trip to the library tomorrow. (Am trying to read the Agatha nominees for best novel, best first novel and best historical by Malice Domestic, which is at the end of April.)
Oh, man, i love my nieces. They are smart and fun and informed about, like, politics and sexuality, and athletic and giving, and aware of their privilege, and they're both going to make the world a better place.
Iow, just had yet another great talk over tapas and drinks in a bar in Granada. I'm sad, the older one goes back to Galicia on Sunday, although i get to travel with the younger one for another week.
Also? I would never survive on a Spanish schedule. At 11pm, they are justgetting started for the evening. Oy.
Heh. My 12-year-old cousin wrote an essay, and her mother posted it to facebook, and now it's made it to Huffington Post. [link]
I've been thinking about doing some public refuting, but so many of my kids are engaging in social justice activity for the first time I hate to quash it. They can't afford to give, so I'm not worried about money going to a questionable charity. But it might be time for another round of "more than tokenism" posts on facebook.
I think the best thing coming out of the whole Kony 2012 phenomenon is that there's been almost as much press about how taking online calls to activism at face value is a bad idea because Invisible Children is a pretty sketchy "charity" and their account of what's going on in Uganda is dangerously oversimplified and so on and so forth, that I feel like most people are coming out of this more informed than when they started.
At 11pm, they are justgetting started for the evening
That's early. Any self-respecting Spaniard doesn't make it to the bars until midnight or later.
They're all muffins. Fried muffins.
Aw, plain donuts are my favorite. It's possible that was not the case when I was 12.