Happy Friday! Here we go again!
1. Overheard at the dinner table: "Who cares about money? All I care about is dignity. And doughnuts." (middle son).
2. Featured this week in ShoutOut Colorado. Check it out here.
3. Smallest one tried and established an enthusiastic appetite for carbonara. Not interested in the guanciale...but couldn't get enough of the pasta.
4. As new legal protections for people seeking or receiving mental health and substance use care took effect on July 1, Mental Health Colorado released a guide to help Coloradans familiarize themselves with their legal rights. The guide empowers patients by laying out patient protections concerning privacy, access to services, discrimination, informed consent, involuntary care, and more.
5. Watching with biggest boy this week: The Tomorrow War. We also tried Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which I remembered fondly (especially the scene where Richard Dreyfuss starts sculpting his mashed potatoes), but found that it hadn't aged well (too slow for our accelerated attention spans).
6. Our cherry tree yielded about two pounds of sour cherries. We pitted these diligently amidst some skepticism and then proceeded to yield the best sour cherry pie ever just in time for our Fourth of July family BBQ.
7. Mentioned in Tatiana Flower's article about the launch of the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration's online portal that aims to increase transparency and accountability and help the administration offer better care to Coloradans.
8. Appreciated Francesca Mari's article about traveling with her aging father. She observes: "I was thinking about how some people in the Andes believe that the future comes up from behind you and the past is always in front of you. It seemed to me that this loop tightens as we age. The horizons of the past and future narrow."
9. Reminded of Walter Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History: "The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair, to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress is this storm."
10. Added to the list of things to read: G.C. Lichtenberg's The Waste Books. Also: Swan Song by Elin Hilderbrand. Also: Am I Dying?!" C Complete Guide to Your Symptoms--and What to Do Next.
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