Less Why: Thoughts on Faith | Life with Roozle “If I think about it too much, I get stuck. If I let myself wonder how anything could be true and what is true anyway and what’s the point and why does that even matter, I get so stuck. I’ve stopped letting myself think about the hard questions. Maybe just for now. Maybe for always. The last time I did this, it didn’t go so well, so I’m trying a new way. A lot less why. A lot more just go.” Sarah Millican on how her night at the Baftas ended in tears | Radio Times “Then I went onto Twitter and it was like a pin to my excitable red balloon. Literally thousands of messages from people criticising my appearance. I was fat and ugly as per usual. My dress (the one that caused ooohs in a department store fitting room?) was destroyed by the masses. I looked like a nana, my dress was disgusting, was it made out of curtains, why was I wearing black shoes with it. I cried. I cried in the car. And that wasn’t the end. The next day, I was in newspapers pilloried for what I was wearing. I was discussed and pulled apart on Lorraine. I’m sorry. I thought I had been invited to such an illustrious event because I am good at my job.” 
Via Boligmagasinet.dk Why do Millennials not understand racism? | Slate via Jameil Bouie “Millennials have grown up in a world where we talk about race without racism—or don’t talk about it at all—and where “skin color” is the explanation for racial inequality, as if ghettos are ghettos because they are black, and not because they were created. As such, their views on racism—where you fight bias by denying it matters to outcomes—are muddled and confused. Which gets to the irony of this survey: A generation that hates racism but chooses colorblindness is a generation that, through its neglect, comes to perpetuate it.” Mindful Mondays: Overcoming Pain, Loss, and Grief | Whoorl “But I took that first, frightened step toward health the morning after Maddie died. As I lay there, contemplating everything that I was facing, I knew pain and fear was there and it wasn’t going to go away any time soon. I had to start small. I made a promise to myself that I would find one thing from that day that was good and give thanks for it. I knew I had to find room in my heart for the good, even if it was just to acknowledge a pretty cloud or uncommonly light traffic on the way to work. As the months passed, it became easier and easier to see all the beauty that this world holds, even in the midst of all its horror. Each of our lives hangs in the balance between the terrible and the sublime, and the only protection we have is to stubbornly look toward the sublime.” 
Via Designfiles 7 Actual Facts That Prove White Privilege Exists In America | Policy Mic “Having a name perceived as “black” is a burden during a job search. In 2012, an unemployed black woman made headlines for reporting that her resume on Monster.com began to receive interest from employers after she changed her name and race. Yolanda Spivey, an insurance professional, noticed that Monster.com’s “diversity questionnaire” section seemed to be hurting her employment options. After Yolanda changed her name to the fictitious Bianca White, however, she received calls with job offers immediately. And not only that, they were for better jobs.” 9 Things Better Than A Teething Baby | via @HowToBeADad “So, here is a list I’ve put together for you, parents and non-parents, of things I would rather do than hang out with a teething baby: 1. Cover Myself in Bees Covered in bees better than a teething baby. This is a little too similar to hanging out with a teething baby, actually. If they all decided to sting me in the ears, samesies.”
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