I made this for my friend's daughter who is trying out pottery. I've been making her little instructional videos and this one is a timelapse of me trimming and putting a handle on a mug. Thought I would share in case you guys find this interesting.

Someone shared this with me who said it had been circulating in the Hasidic community. Will likely offend a lot of people these days.

Hi everyone, I haven't been active in Solid Ground for a while, but I am still alive and kicking! I now work as personal assistant to a mind-bendingly weird and diva-esque artist-lip-syncher-performer named Fiona Blueberry. She is blissfully clueless about politics and seems to be completely unaware of the culture wars. Working with her is a breath of fresh air. If you need a mood lift, I encourage you to watch this video we made together. Happy 4th, everyone! Wishing you fun/love/peace on this holiday. :) www.fionablueberry.com

I have family who believes that Latter-day Saint congregations should condemn support of the Trump administration and immigration enforcement efforts an call them to repentance. Some family members expressed hesitation about Sacrament meeting (our main meeting) as an appropriate place to call out MAGA Republicans (probably anyone who’s not Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney).
But one sibling thought it was completely appropriate. Saying that it’s common for people to get defensive when they get called out for sin, and that they need to repent, of course not wallow in shame (thank goodness), but humbly accept correction and admit that they were wrong.

I just don’t compute. I’m not accustomed to seeing it that way. I view that as the same as someone I knew who spoke about his conservative views AT CHURCH as if they were the truth (without qualifying it as “this is what I believe personally).

I’m SO not used to politics being a black/white, wrong/right thing. No one has all the ...

This is SO good. I feel like it speaks to the importance of Solid Ground.

I was listening to a podcast about Internal Family Systems. I am a therapist and I don't know much at all about this form of therapy and I was interested in learning more. There was a discussion of the idea that each of us contains a multitude of beings, each of which serves a function and some of whom we reject as unacceptable. From what I can glean so far, the goal is to integrate these beings and to have them live peacefully under a core healthy self. Okaaaay.... maybe. I'm just listening along being relaxed and open minded and then they talked about everone having an inner racist being whom we should get in touch with via patient searching. As well as looking at the part that thinks Donald Trump is great. That we need to get into communication with this"misguided" being. So in other words, they want to use therapy towards a political agenda. It felt like I'd been hit in the face. Imagine hiw a client with traumawoukd fel if they were in this vulnerable space of deep inquiry with a ...