Baby born with incredibly beautiful hair looks like he’s a younger version of Maui from ‘Moana’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/baby-maui-hair-ex1/

Grandpa Opening Up to Family for First Time Written Off as Senile

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/culture/grandpa-opening-up-to-family-for-first-time-written-off-as-senile/

"Dubbed #grandma #hobbies or #grandmacore in online communities: pre-technology pastimes like #crafting, #gardening, #puzzles, and #baking "

So science says that it's the best you can do: https://www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/post/the-growing-impact-of-grandma-hobbies-on-mental-health-and-cognition

I'm in a #fiberArts club with real grandmas. It's mostly the #community helping our members coping with death or serious illness, breaking out of social or personal isolation, feeling a sense of agency, feeling appreciated, having fun. The community is as important as the #knitting.

Finally transcribed the #grandma recordings for this week. They mainly were about the present. Highlight was when she described, how her rollator started moving after being accidentally pushed by her back. She was "running" after it to catch it and somehow it only got faster. We were both laughing so hard in the recording. It was a real pleasure.

Turns out that the remaining 144 recordings were including the ones I had transcribed last week. With today's progress (and removing one, that only had me taking a note after a phone call), I'm now left with 136 recordings in total (plus the ones were we discuss photo albums). This last recordings were of April 2022, next is June 2022. The done pile meanwhile has 365 recordings of various lengths.

#genealogy

Finally done with pre-sorting and naming a lot of audio recordings with different people up to the month that #grandma died. For the first time, I have the absolut count without any estimates: 144 grandma recordings left to transcribe from April 2022 until October 2023.

#genealogy

Belated #grandma recording (and then on the other such a long one, that it could count for this week as well 🤔)

Sad highlight might have been about her uncle Emil Hercher (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hercher-33, the one with the incredible flight from being a prisoner of war): After the death of his wife, grandma's mother took care of him at his home for several months. When grandma visited her there for Christmas, her mother locked him in in the living room, since he "doesn't need to hear everything we talk". When grandma left, she saw him laying on the couch with a sad face. She was sure, he was looking forward to spending some time with her as well.

#genealogy