Words still have consequences, even for this Oval Office occupant.
Kirsten Eve Beachy
@granolamennonite.bsky.social
I write about backyard poultry, Mennonites, motherhood, infertility, disability, and strange magic. I read omnivorously, favoring dragons and politics.
I wake up Mennonite every morning. I need to dance for 20 minutes straight, just so that I can face the day.
Granola Mennonite, dancing furiously | Anabaptist World
Sometimes during the harried first years of raising toddler, then preschooler twins, one with Down syndrome, I escaped through our woods to the creek, Briery Branch, and stacked rocks.
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The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...
When you need to bring a big salad for the work potluck but it’s road construction season so driving is out of the question and you’re also a #granolamennonite, you have to get creative with packing to fit everything in the bike paniers.
Say you wanted to give a tree a small thank you gift. Actually, two trees. What would you give them? If it helps, they're magnolias. #bloomscrolling
“The folks slashing funding see numbers on a page. I see my daughter Sallie’s future hanging in the balance.” – Kirsten Eve Beachy newsletter.ofthebrav...
My daughter has Down syndrome. Trump is stealing her future.
The true cost of funding cuts at the NIH.
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Had room to bring only one book home from Menno/s Writing, and now my chicken-loving daughter has stolen it! @doft.bsky.social
The No Kings protest at The Beer Garden is getting a little spicy
NEW: The mother of an Arizona man who died after being unable to find mental health treatment is suing his health insurer, saying it broke the law by publishing false information that misled its customers. By @maxblau.bsky.social
He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame.
The mother of Ravi Coutinho, the subject of a recent ProPublica investigation, is suing Centene for publishing “misleading” information that gave her son a false impression about the kinds of mental h...
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Cuts to Alzheimer's research directly impact Sallie's future quality of life. #Downsyndrome
Ossoff's Office@ossoff.senate.gov · last yr.Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
In honor of Infertility Awareness Week, here's a free sample chapter for all you #GranolaMennonites-- "A Short History of Infertility and Ducks". #NIAW2025 Warning: the duck sex is pretty graphic.
Eggs: A Short History of Infertility and Ducks (The Cresset, Lent 2014)
When you are a granola Mennonite couple just getting started on a little homestead, free stuff is gold. So when my father-in-law called us a few days before the 2008 Virginia Mennonite Relief sale and...
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What's on your #granolamennonite Easter table? #humblebrags only. I'll start! It's too bad these eggs from our backyard chickens, pickled with homegrown beets and plated on my great-grandmother's anniversary dish aren't as dark a beet-colored pink as I had hoped. I will try to do better next year.
Okay, everyone. Don't forget to breathe!
Dr swift parrot@teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · last yr.Wednesday (clenched)
