“There are forces that benefit from keeping us outraged at each other and demonizing each other, and that’s very very powerful right now... I’m doing my best to pastor people whose lives are in great vulnerability and uncertainty.” - Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

After 6,000 people died from whooping cough in 1932, three extraordinary women confronted this deadly disease. Scientists Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering and their research assistant Loney Clinton Gordon developed a vaccine for pertussis, which now saves half a million lives annually.

In light of everything, I’m considering just wearing glitter on my face. Daily.

Carrots Nibbles Sparkles having a light salad with dinner.

When the world is going to sh**, make stained glass cookies. Hammering candies into dust is therapeutic.

Carrots Nibbles Sparkles makes his first appearance on Bluesky