Michelle Grondine

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i was going to read a book over the last two days but my diabetic immunocompromised mom tripped and fell, she thought she fractured her rib, so we had to brave a trip to cedars urgent care. was not the best experience, caretaking a parent alone and finally getting to the hospital. got shamed repeatedly for not thinking to ice her rib upon being informed of said injury nor giving her tylenol (our cvs has been sold out since end of feb) within the 5 minutes of my finding out about her injury, feeding her, making sure she took her insulin, and walking her to the hospital. the important thing is it was not a fracture, just aggravated her old healed one from when she tripped on a rocky beach in hawaii 10 years ago. but life happens. sometimes you lose track of time. sometimes life causes you to have to adjust and readjust. and if things are important to you, you have to *make* time for it. because you’ll never just *find* the time—not for me anymore, anyway, now that my mom is out of commission for a bit.
that’s where this idea came to me.

being a book blogger, i read—a lot! i know how hard to make time to sit and read without any distractions or getting pulled away to do something else really quickly, which ends up taking more time than expected.
so i want to start doing spontaneous read-a-thons to raise money for different awesome educational, bipoc, nbpoc, lgbtqia orgs i care about while also hopefully inspiring people to incorporate more spontaneous reading breaks in their every day life. i’m going to try to commit to 1 hour of reading in the place of 1 hour of mindless scrolling every day. i don’t know if i’ll post every hour-long stream to feed, but i feel like committing to this will keep me accountable. we’ll see how this goes. hopefully y’all enjoy it, join in on the fun, and embrace the daily practice of reading.
so today, i read Never Play Piggy from @kellyoxford’s When You Find Out The World Is Against You: And Other Funny Memories About Awful Moments and raised $48ish for @blackgirlscode. reading @kellyoxford’s writing is such a visceral experience for me, i love it so much. if you watch tmrw, you’ll see what i mean ☺️ | Posted on 24/Jun/2020 03:32:02