Type Worship + Mia's bones

 Yesterday's post mentioned surfing through Australia and England. This guy made the claim that The John Stevens Shop is the *oldest* continuously running business in the US. That is not correct, but, we'll let it go. He has a ton of inspirational stuff on his website. Obviously, he uses the computer to make everything slick and symmetrical. But, he does have one piece that he drew by hand because the end product was letterpress and letterpress is just so beautifully forgiving.

I apologize for the salty language. We have already covered the topic of salty language and those of us who are in the gray years will continue to avoid the salty language. I noticed over the T-day weekend that while my daughter and her husband continue to have a strict rule against salty language, the dad bought a very funny birthday card for the mom. It had a salty word on it and he thought he had kept it hidden at the store where he had taken their 8 year old daughter to pick out a birthday gift. Nothing gets past 8 year olds. She came racing in the house, told her brother that dad bought a card with a bad word, then the two of them raced to tell the mom. Of course, it all came across as comical and it seems like the kids are mature enough to know what the bad words are and still refrain from using them. 

Something else I found out that seems like progress. I asked my granddaughter if any of the girls in her 2nd grade class had short hair. During drop off and pick up at the playground, it seemed as though all the girls had long hair. She brought out a booklet with class pictures and pointed to the girls with short hair. Then she pointed to one kid with chin length hair and said, "Thatcher is not a boy or a girl." Later I asked my daughter about Thatcher and she said that as far as she can tell, non-binary people are no big deal to the kids in the class. It's just a random public school not too far from Wrigleyville in Chicago -- so, maybe there is some growing kindness and acceptance in the future. 

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A portion of Jamie's salty artwork

And a lovely envelope from Mia in Canada. Once again - there was no planning in this pair, but they are cousins because they are items turned into letters - pencils and bones. I've done both and can imagine doing some more. Someday.