Seems like this year has been more like a long absolution than a brief festival of carnality:
The word shrove is a form of the English word shrive, which means to obtain absolution for one’s sins by way of Confession and doing penance…
Thoughts & prayers to everyone trapped by side-effects of the current polar vortex, which is all I can really offer at this time. It’s currently raining here north of Boston, because *nothing* is normal any more, so I can’t even trade proper complaints.
That is, relatively affluent people still deal with the precariousness and capricious disempowerment associated with poverty, whether it's fighting with health insurance, lacking employment protections, inadequate leave, childcare provision, etc.
— Nick (@getyrtrouserson) February 16, 2021
Some happier notes:
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