There's a lot to be said for "hands on".

One thing that I have found is consistent in life (and while I am not a hundred years old, just a bit more than half of that, I have not grown  galvanized in rhetoric) is there's nothing like experience.
There are a lot of videos with people talking about the various candidates running for the office of President in the states and almost as many outside of that country and they have their "camps" and they say pretty much the same things depending on their "camp" but Susan Sarrandan said something completely outside the topic of the election that really resonated with me.( her experience )

"It's a terrible thing to reduce anyone to just being a 'concept'"  --Susan Sarrandon.  It is a terrible thing not because it feels bad for "the poor", the "mentally ill", the "refugees", it is a terrible thing because it allows ACTUAL crimes against ACTUAL people to be committed under the guise of policy.
There is a big difference between a "solution" and a crime.  If it is a crime it should be called a crime and we should have to learn to live with it or change it.  But most importantly we should not be allowed to lie about it.

I think that feeling comfortable should not be a goal in life if it involves coming up with ways to distance oneself from others. We can't pretend to have all the answers but there is great harm in pretending that questions are instead statements.

My grade five teacher used to say, "I don't know what experience is good for but it sure beats sitting on your hands".

on the lighter side of muffins

i am transitioning to old people comfy apparel.  my jeans that I bought for "fat days" and working in the garden are my new constant go to jeans. Turns out my best jeans and my kidneys don't actually like each other because the waist band runs slightly south of the waist and hits my tummy in a place that it doesn't like much.  That said, my new favourite jeans actually are a bit too high on my waist and when I sit catch my ribs but WHO CARES cuz I can wear a baggy sweat shirt to cover the top of them AND unbutton the top when I sit down.

Voila! A new aesthetic.