Welcome to I❤TT, a discussion thread for sharing stuff you love because we need more of that in life.
I haven’t been on TikTok for several months now and I mostly don’t miss it. There are a few accounts I missed enough to seek out on YouTube. One of them was the 3 Southern Cats and Momma. It’s still called that even though there’s now a fourth cat! I love them all so much. Here’s a random video for a taste.
LOVE
Please talk about or post a link, or two links, or even 5 links to things that bring you joy. Can be something cute your kid or pet did, a piece of art, a song, a book, a short story, an article, a video, posts from social media, anything.
And if these discussions are a source of joy for you, please do share this link with others who might need a space for talking about what we love.
My happy thing is that a restaurant in walking distance of my house, Paris Banh Mi Café & Bakery, has boba tea, banh mi, and I just tried this little pastry that tastes a lot like Danish puff pastry! Different textures, and sweeter, but I can get my fix for almond pastry without all the prep work and baking! There’s also a PokeStop there, though I’ve not been playing as much.
I am very excited about my new short haircut. I’ve been “just living with” my long-ish hair for … I dunno … 12 or 15 years? To the point where I just stopped looking in the mirror. It was so fun to have a stylist play with my hair and make me LOOK again.
My Kiva loan got fully funded in about a week! I’m so excited that I get to do more with my little jewelry business! I’m so grateful to have such a wide, compassionate and generous network of friends, colleagues and acquaintances.
catechmeyer@yahoo.com .I am a 70 year old white librarian. Just read “Ruby” and loved it. I hope the kids around me love it as much as I do. Excellent writing–very clear snapshot of your neighborhood. Good, subtle examples of micro-aggression and how the people handled it. I really liked your people AND your alien!!
March is always my favorite month, with my Pi Day birthday. This March is even more special because I’ve just started a 2 week mini-sabbatical from work to concentrate on writing. It’s one of the best gifts I’ve ever given myself.
If I get stuff for tacos, Son 2 will make dinner. He’s bribing me to get more tacos. It’s working.
The woman in your video sounds just like my cousin. ?
Katrina “killed” my New Orleans workshop, but the former members are publishing. three just announced work
coming out
author Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani
https://bookshop.org/p/books/conjuring-the-calabash-empowering-women-with-hoodoo-spells-magick-mawiyah-kai-el-jamah-bomani/19688296?ean=9780738773711
And my friend Lynn who I just had dinner with has a story in here?https://bookshop.org/p/books/infinite-constellations-an-anthology-of-identity-culture-and-speculative-conjunctions/18955912?ean=9781573661980
and author Paulette Richards
https://www.amazon.com.au/Object-Performance-Black-Atlantic-United/dp/1032054867?
Right now Lockwood & Co is my happy place. I burned through it in 2 days and a male rewatching it with my flatmate, and I also started reading the novels the Netflix series is based on. While I wish the books were a little more ethnically diverse the TV series does better. In fact the casting for George and Flo Bones are absolutely perfect and I ship them like FedEx.
“I ship them like FedEx” :D
Yay I <3 This Thursday :)
Here are some baby otters: https://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/2023/02/north-american-river-otters-born.html
I’m happy we finally got some real snow here in northern NJ!