835th Friday Blog Roundup

Every year for many many many years, on March 9th, the ALI community has performed kind acts in honour of Thomas. Thomas’s mum wrote up a great description of the origin of the day. It’s a really amazing idea of helping a person continue to impact the world, and it’s super simple. You just do something kind in Thomas’s memory, making the world a tiny bit better than it was moments earlier.

They are encouraging people to keep their kind acts COVID-19-safe this year. I’m giving you a four-day heads up so you can put on your thinking cap this weekend. What is a small thing you can do on the 9th to put good in the world in Thomas’s memory?

Get thinking.

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Stop procrastinating. Go make your backups. Don’t have regrets.

Seriously. Stop what you’re doing for a moment. It will take you fifteen minutes, tops. But you will have peace of mind for days and days. It’s the gift to yourself that keeps on giving.

As always, add any new thoughts to the Friday Backup post and peruse new comments in order to find out about methods, plug-ins, and devices that help you quickly back up your data and accounts.

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And now the blogs…

But first, second helpings of the posts that appeared in the open comment thread last week. In order to read the description before clicking over, please return to the open thread:

• “Ghost Life” (Finding a Different Path)
• “My Account at the Emotional Bank” (Stirrup Queens) —thank you, Jess!

Okay, now my choices this week.

Infertile Phoenix writes about being in limbo again. She pulls in her experience of infertility to get through the pandemic-induced limbo. She writes: “All this waiting… It’s just like… Well, you know. Having experience with something IS helpful. I’m thankful for that.” It is a temporary time period. Not a pleasant one, not one anyone wants to be in, but it helps to think about its temporary nature.

Infertility Honesty writes about her candle and flower ritual, explaining: “Mourning is defined as the outward expression of grief.  Everyone grieves, but not everyone mourns.” She contemplates how the ritual has changed over the years, especially this year when everything is so off-kilter. And I found the moment in the snow incredibly moving.

Risa Kerslake writes about her child’s second transferversary. She writes: “Two years ago she was placed inside me, along with the sibling we’ll never get to meet. Truthfully, I don’t think a lot about that day. It was traumatic. I mean, traumatic, but filled with so much hope at the same time.” Those last few sentences of the post made me feel weepy. Happy but also weepy.

Lastly, The Next 15000 Days has a (not really) silly story about a common myth: let’s call it the “prayed hard enough” myth. After a helpful webinar, she dives into a not-so-helpful book. It’s a tiny post, so you’ll have to click over to read it.

The roundup to the Roundup: Be kind on March 9th (and other days, too). Your weekly backup nudge. And lots of great posts to read. So what did you find this week? Please use a permalink to the blog post (written between Feb 26 – March 5) and not the blog’s main url. Not understanding why I’m asking you what you found this week? Read the original open thread post here.