Thanksgiving postcards

Not last year anymore

This year the Rant Family struck a decidedly different note than last year. Last year Little Sister and nephew conspired to make Thanksgiving, to pack up single serving size portions and to deliver them piping hot to RantWoman and RantMom and then we all sat down to Thanksgiving dinner over Zoom. 

This year:

--No Zoom

--No collective turkey

--No trying to all be in one place because of space issues and multiple threads of medical issues and fatigue.

--No one feeling overworked or underappreciated. Little Sister and fam sound like they will get around to turkey RantMom dined at her retirement community. RantWoman made a turkey sandwich and may get a turkey leg to cook with some stuffing. RantWoman also made both cranberry sauce and cranberry relish, packed up some other snackables and hopped onto transit to go hang out and spend the afternoon with RantMom. It was lovely!

The Christmas cactuses
just keep hanging in there.

Mourning and Moaning

Dear text message groupies, Happy colonizing feast day to y'all too. RantWoman does not in the least see how permanent rebellion against mythologizing, cultural appropriation, genocide... is AT ALL incompatible with deep humility and gratitude. 

And while we're at it, sometimes #BlackLivesMatter means listening with great interest to program about African American classical music. 

There. Is RantWoman cantankerous enough?

Holiday on Smartphone

Other than that the internet is a great and glorious Thang and RantWoman is not so sure about the current holiday habit of whipping out the cellphone to filter links so RantMom can think about a new medical issue and to find out the answer presently is No about brother and one possibility. 

Wayfinding on dark and stormy holiday night

One of these days RantWoman WILL figure out the Capital Hill light rail station and the right exit to take the #8 bus home. Today RantWoman realized the texture of the sidewalk was wrong and figured out she was going the wrong way on Broadway. Plus LOTS of places were closed for the holidays. This is awesome for people and their families but rough for such as RantWoman who rely on specific blobs of light for help navigating. 

Welcome to Planet RantWoman.

Now please go make your own gratitude lists.