I hope you're up to something fun this weekend! This evening I'm going to play pickleball with friends. I have thus far spent five (5) minutes of my life playing pickleball, so it will likely not be pretty. But it will be FUN, and I'll be prepared should I ever meet Gerry the Golden Bachelor.

Action item! Action item!

If you didn't see this week's Tuesday post yet, take a look. Most of us are itching for doable action suggestions to become more Table-y people. This is precisely that. Join us this fall!

Uggggh-but-important article

Is this a helpful category? Like, I read probably more worrying pieces than I should; maybe that unfortunate habit will be worthwhile if I share the best ones here. I'm sorry to say that I think you should probably read the relatively brief Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley. “Eventually, chasing tennis balls gets old. We become more alive to virtually any distraction: The media fixate on John Fetterman’s hoodie instead of on stories about the relentless but predictable risk of Trump-inspired political violence.
Bombarded by a constant stream of deranged authoritarian extremism from a man who might soon return to the presidency, we’ve lost all sense of scale and perspective. But neither the American press nor the public can afford to be lulled.”

I knowwwwww. Sorry.

But here! Here's something better!

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