My students created a mental health awareness display for Hispanic Heritage Month! ❤ Only 5% of therapists speak Spanish & only 7% of psychologists are Latinx. So they are exploring how indigenous healing can work alongside therapeutic practices! #HispanicHeritage #Mentalhealth

LIVE ONLINE! In addition to listing dozens of in-person events, the Weekly Program Schedule for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 highlights virtual offerings too: buff.ly/3Uz1rWw. Tune in for a midday meditation, apple season cooking demo or citizenship preparation class, among others.

The countdown is on for the Eat Local Read Local festival! Serving up entertainment – for both young and old – are rockers Felix Pickles and balloon-artist Tom Lilly. Catch them along with 70+ local authors at Cascades Library Saturday, Oct. 15. Details: library.loudoun.gov/ELRL

JOB OPENINGS at Loudoun Library! 📚 See list of positions available: jobapscloud.com/LDN/?Keyword=&….

You can hang out with local authors and enjoy live music, food and kids’ activities too! Eat Local Read Local—today until 2 p.m. at Cascades Library: library.loudoun.gov/ELRL

In the coming days there are multiple opportunities to celebrate Diwali and discuss this year's 1book 1community selection, "Maybe He Just Likes You." Find out when and where these and other programs are happening in the Oct. 17-23 Weekly Program Schedule: buff.ly/3yGvdiQ

Vote today (if you haven’t already). 💗

Make space on your calendar for a virtual tour of the Louvre, an introduction to America's Native Food Trail, lightsaber training or a dinosaur dance party. These are just a few of the offerings included in the Weekly Program Schedule for Nov. 14-20: buff.ly/3EiCU23

Go, Orange!

Sewing, retirement planning and a brazen plot to assassinate world leaders are among the featured topics at library events this week. View the program schedule for Jan. 9-15 at buff.ly/3igsIz2

Did you know that Ernie's "Rubber Duckie" song peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for a Grammy? Happy #NationalRubberDuckyDay

Finished reading #TheLightWeCarry today. ☀️ Thank you, Michelle Obama, for inspiring tears, laughter, reflection … and for reinforcing why “starting kind” matters. 💗 Welcome fuel for mind and spirit.

If you know a young person age 8-18 with a passion for the natural world, encourage them to apply for the Craig Tufts Scholarship: nwf.org/Educational-Re…. It provides funds for winner and parent/guardian to attend the Family Nature Summit, July 7-13, in Minnesota’s North Woods.

I typically come away from this event feeling inspired, seeing multiple generations interacting and sharing their environmental interests and problem-solving approaches. Students, community groups and the general public can all take part: loudounnature.org/loudoun-seas.

Opportunity to make a difference: Loudoun Library is hosting a food drive April 22-30. Items will be distributed by Loudoun Hunger Relief. 💗 Details: library.loudoun.gov/fooddrive

Together we can make a difference for community members facing food insecurity. 💗

“Identities are not obscenities. Stories are not pornography. They are possibility.” ~Summer Boismier cbsnews.com/news/war-of-wo…

Neighbors helping neighbors. 💗

wrote about Museum of Arts and Design's Taylor Swift: Storyteller exhibition for Art Currently! artcurrently.com/from-sparkling…

Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children. ...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare. My latest in The Nation thenation.com/article/politi…