In another life I would have become an architect. One of the best things I learned as an adolescent in Girl Scouts was how to make to-scale architectural drawings. I loved it then and still do. At the time I used to draw imaginary dream houses with cozy turrets and vast libraries. Now I draw plans to test out furniture placement before purchasing!

As children, we tend to make and keep friends according to our activities. We’re friends with kids in our class or with those who participate in the same extracurriculars as we do. If we change classes or schools, we lose the friendships from those places. One of the great challenges of being an adult is learning how to make and retain friendships based on who we are and not where we happen to be.

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Donald Trump is a threat to our democracy

I like how I write notes to myself. This is from my “don’t buy for Passover” list that I wrote at the end of last year’s Passover. Apparently I knew that I would doubt having enough matzah ball mix. 🤣

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TIL you’re supposed to replace the hosing for the gas in your house every 5 years

I just discovered that I can save a page as an app on my MacBook and it is the coolest thing ever

I won’t pretend I fully understand Hoppean philosophy from this one bit, but the impression I’m getting is that he’s describing the true form of “separate but equal.” I know that phrase has a lot of baggage - and that it was used to paper over real discrimination. But remove it from that context and assess it for what it truly means: freedom of individuality, freedom to create the communities you want, and each community respecting other communities. As long as the freedom to leave and find/found the place that’s right for you is preserved, this is a beautiful system. And believe it or not it already exists - right here in my town, in Israel. Jews (of many flavors), Christian Arabs, Druze, Muslims, Indians, and Russians - we all flock to our own groups yet we coexist. Our pediatrician is Russian, our family doctor is Christian, our special-needs toddler’s sweet bus driver is Druze. We trust each other, and respect each other, and no one tries to force their way onto others. We have separate schools and separate communities - because we WANT to be separate, but that doesn’t invalidate the peaceful interactions between us. In fact, forcing groups together that prefer to be apart is actually a restriction of freedom. Shaming groups for wanting to stay within their group is just as bad as shaming an individual for wanting to leave a group. View quoted note →

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