Life continues to be rich and full in the Miser family household! This week's family fun foto features personal mascots and animal alter egos. And these are (in alphabetical order):
- Bernese mountain dog (I-daughter is on Greta's shoulder, and then Greta is on I-daughter's shoulder, which is so cute);
- Bridges, because my pedestrian husband wants to walk across All The Bridges (this photo is the Ben Franklin, but the George Washington was also traversed this past week)
- Cows. Because, cows. Cow-culus. You know.
- Dogs, says L-daughter the elder, who fosters dogs at home and keeps dog costumes in her office at work. She adds that people at her work at the VA might have pegged her as more of a honey badger, "cuz I'm ruthless l". None of us disagree!
- Flying Pigs: Y assured us all, "This pig does fly! Can't believe I'll be a doctor in 10 months."
- Llamas. (Awwww)
- Mule Deer, because L-daughter the younger is strong like that, people.
- Octopus, says A-child, who used her many many hands to help me pick 26 pounds of cherries early this week (I love that chalk drawing/photo!)
- Snakey, who has been N-son's companion ever since someone brought that creature home from the fair almost two decades ago, and
- Water, says K-daughter, who shared a photo from her wedding trip to St. Martin's.
Me, I've finally gotten my fall teaching assignment; I'll be teaching calculus at 6:30 a.m. to a cohort of our students gathered in Shanghai (their 6:30 p.m.). It's going to be a really interesting experience.
And my guy, his doctor told him he has a few screws tight. His range of motion is coming along slowly, and so we're looking at a bunch more Physical Therapy, plus possibly a torture device to bend his arm, and if those don't work, loosening up those screws a tad. None of the personal mascots above start with the letter X, but if anybody were going to trade "bridges" for "x-rays", it'd be my husband, who is beautiful on the inside, too, as these images below show.
I like to think I'm a teacher, but this week I got to learn something I hadn't known before, but wish I had, and just in case you didn't know it and wanted to, too, here it is. This week, we had a theme of "Animal Alter-egos". The theme started off under a different name that was suggested to me. I've been learning A LOT about being white lately, and didn't have any idea that co-opting the term "spirit animal" could be hurtful to people . . . so. I'm super grateful to I-daughter for carefully and gently letting me know about this, for saying "I'm not comfortable with taking a spiritual/cultural concept from the indigenous people of our nation and using it as a joke", and for sending me these links.
https://www.worldreligionnews.com/opinion/spirit-animal-not-joke-oppressionhttps://www.spiralnature.com/spirituality/spirit-animal-cultural-appropriation/
I keep learning more and more, even after 5 decades. Go figure. I love this family I have.
And that's the news from our family, which continues to be wealthy in our adventures. May you and yours stay safe!
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