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<\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Butterflies in my stomach.<\/strong> I’m currently waiting for my cousin Sarah to come over with her fianc\u00e9 Evan. I have serious butterflies in my stomach because I haven’t met him yet. I’m excited to get to see Sarah for the first time in almost 6 years — she’s one of my favorite cousins and I think Daniel will love her. (We all love her so that’s not surprising.)<\/p>\n **UPDATE** It was a fabulous visit.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Introverts for the win!<\/strong> I saw an article this week on why silence is much for important to our brains than previously thought<\/a>. This totally explains how my mind works better than I could ever vocalize, especially why I could sit down at my computer and bang out a 10 page paper without writing a bunch of drafts first and have it receive the highest grade in my college classes.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Fascinating.<\/strong> Someone shared this piece<\/a> which has a bunch of pictures from the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. As know most of my readers are fans of her books, I thought I’d pass it on.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n A chart of lying liars who lie.<\/strong> Someone shared this chart of the biggest liars in the 2016 election<\/a> and not surprisingly, Donald Trump is at the top. Hillary is 2nd from the bottom and Obama is at the bottom. Why am I mentioning this? IT WAS MORMONPRESS.COM<\/a> WHO COMPILED IT!!!! You would think that they would be anti-Hillary which makes me trust their chart a bit more because why would they publish something like this unless the numbers backed it up?<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Because food is a uniting force.<\/strong> Instead of having a protest, the Wichita police department had a cook-out with the local Black Lives Matter group<\/a>. Props to police chief Gordon Ramsey and activist A.J. Bohannon for putting this together and finding a way to get along and show that police and the BLM can get along!<\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This terrifies me.<\/strong> As the mom of a kiddo with autism, this<\/a> terrifies me. And seriously, y’all? The autistic man had A FREAKING TOY FIRE TRUCK!!!! That officer should be facing some serious charges!!!<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n In all seriousness…<\/strong> I was going to share the picture of Donald Trump’s star in Hollywood surrounded by a miniature concrete wall. However, in light of him accepting the nomination from the GOP to be their candidate for the presidential election in November, I thought it better to share what it really does look like to “throw a little gas”<\/a> as Trump joked about Saddam Hussein doing. Genocide isn’t a joke, y’all, and I really hope that any Trump supporters reading this take a long hard look at themselves because voting for someone who thinks this is funny is a foul move.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at This Ain’t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — 1 — Butterflies in my stomach. I’m currently waiting for my cousin Sarah to come over with her fianc\u00e9 Evan. I have serious butterflies in my stomach because I haven’t met him yet. I’m excited to get to see … Continue reading