Between First and Fifth grade I never missed a question on a spelling test. I was very, very proud of the fact that I was a good speller. If I’d known that spell check and voice-to-text would become a thing, I might have applied myself to proficiency in a different subject. Math would have been a good idea. I still don’t really know my times tables but I get by.
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Author: Libby
Page 75: Checking in for March
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, they say. But so far, not so lion-y. Which I’m fine with. The wind is outrageous but so far no storms. They’re on their way, though, and there’s nothing that I love the way that I love a Kansas storm. So that’s something to look forward to, for sure.
Thank you for your patience as I’ve been a little bit spotty during the month of February. But we’ve moved! And I’m hoping to get back into a much more regular writing schedule. I didn’t write too much during February but there was so much activity due to the #XOXOSELFIECHALLENGE.
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Page 74: Feminist Fridays feat. Women of Color
There was a workplace shooting three hours ago in a town that’s no more than half an hour’s drive from here. I’m not doing well with it. I’m angry. I’m really fucking angry. I’m tired that this is something that we have to deal with on a regular damn basis and I hate that people in my community, tonight, are screaming those hollow screams of someone who lost a person that they loved with their whole heart. And other people sitting on the couch saying, “there’s nothing we can do, let’s not even try.”
I’m not telling you this because it has anything to do with Feminist Friday but I am telling you this so that if you’re feeling an undercurrent of seriousness–that’s why. We are feeling a little bit raw around here, tonight.
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Page 73: Fake it ‘Till You Make It
The topic for today’s #xoxoselfie challenge is Fake It Till You Make It. And at first I couldn’t think of anything to post. I had whatever the Instagram version of writer’s block is. My main thought was, “I can’t afford to fake anything right now.”
Truth is that I’m feeling a little bit low. A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about how when we go through something exciting, once we’re on the other end of it we can tend to get kind of inexplicably sad feeling despite how happy we really are in the long run. I don’t think that happens to everyone but it definitely happens to me. There’s been a ton of prep and now that it’s over—woosh… feelings come in. It happened after our wedding. For a few weeks after we came back to real life, I felt very low. Very sad. And that’s when I think I really learned that feelings aren’t very trustworthy. They’re valid—don’t get me wrong. But they wax and wane. And they roll in and out like the tide. So I want to tell you why I can’t afford to fake it till I make it, today. Not today.
Page 72: Guest Post
I’ve been so, so, so busy these past few weeks and I asked my dear friends Cammie and Katelin (whom you have met, before) to write something for me. And what they came up with is simple. But it is powerful.
We are two white feminists celebrating black history month by listening. We are the audience and want to allow people of color to teach us the impact of intersectionality in their lives. Let’s listen.
Thank you for bringing this to us, Cammie and Katelin. May we find more and more and more opportunities to listen to our sisters. I promise to provide more opportunities not just in the month of February but all year long.
Thank you, everyone.
XOXO,
Lib
XOXO, Lib 