Author: Sara
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I am going to take a moment to silently cheer that my air conditioning switched on today for summer, which is perfect timing because today was the first really hot day of the season.
Next, my only purchase this week was a Furla bag from Poshmark that I got a $45 offer for. It should have arrived today but of course, it had a mix-up on the Friday of a long weekend.
It will probably arrive on Tuesday just before the tentative postal strike.
At least they aren’t doingit at the busiest time of the Christmas season, but I feel for the small businesses that will be affected and can’t pivot due to inaccessibility to other options.
There are a lot of shipping options, including smaller couriers in the area here, but in small towns and communities, they often don’t even have UPS or Fedex within drivable distances.
A no-win situation, I guess.
In case you missed it, I posted a rock minimalist inspired capsule yesterday.
Weekly Reads and Some Videos:
Some beautiful illustrations of goldfish from 1780. I love goldfish and had some that lived literal YEARS when I was a kid. I’d frame these.
Marie Curie’s PhD thesis explained
Inside the living rooms of notable New Yorkers. I love seeing these, but they also make me realize how broke I am in comparison.
What I Learned at My First Tree-Climbing Workshop
British researchers have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact an extraordinarily rare original from 1300.
How to Sniff Out ‘Copaganda’: When the Police and the Media Manipulate Our News.
It’s Interesting How the Past Can Make You Think About the Present.
Sophia Loren presents ROME 1964
Climate Change Is Threatening Eye Health in Disturbing Ways
French Cancan boots from the early 1900s
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider turned lead into gold by accident. Medieval Alchemist unite.
Eminem’s Lose Yourself, Sung by 331 Movies
Have a great weekend.
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