Links: Life skills

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning by Mario Vittone. I might have posted this one before, but I saw it referenced by someone who had just saved a kid from drowning, so I'm boosting the signal.

Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing. Speech is the secondary or overlaid function. Breathing must be fulfilled, before speech occurs.

ADHD and Other Letters: Finite Resources and the Absence of Laziness by Doctor Fancy Pants.

And there is an upper limit of what you can do. Not everything can be equally urgent. Not every priority can be perfectly addressed.

And that does not make you lazy.

You were never lazy.

Meet the Woman Restoring Native American Peaches to the Southwest by Amiee Maxwell.

For Reagan Wystalucy, though, the project remains a deeply personal testament to how, despite the U.S. government’s efforts to eradicate both the Navajo people and their peaches from the Four Corners area, both remain deeply rooted in the region today. Now, all that’s left is for those roots to spread. “My hope is that these trees will be able to be returned to the homeland in an abundant form,” says Wytsalucy. “And that they will become a bountiful food resource in our communities again.”

See also the link added by elainegrey in comments.