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@landontalks Attention: all adults table members of the family This is our pre-Thanksgiving adults table meeting where we will discuss things we will and will not do/say at the thanksgiving this year. We are having this meeting early so we can all practice and be prepared. #southern #southerncharm #southernaccent #southernliving #thanksgiving ♬ original sound - Landon
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@rupaulofficial Like ashes in the urn it's none of my concern 👏🏾 @Lil’ Kim ♬ original sound - RuPaul
I've been watching a package bounce around for the past week amongst postal service facilities.
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It doesn't feel like a stretch to acknowledge this is a metaphor for how I'm feeling generally.
A friend said mournfully Tuesday night, I feel like I've been lied to. There are no norms anymore.
@tinyviolencetv ♬ original sound - Dedrick Flynn
@atsukocomedy Who’s gonna tell her? 🤔 Why was this the first comedian in mind 😂 props to the band at @DynastyTypewriter for providing vibes! 👕: @Fashion Brand Company #bowlcut #standupcomedy #blue #donthavetime #fy #asian #asiancomedian #billcosby ♬ original sound - Atsuko Okatsuka
@mercurystardust @Airplanefactswithmax What!!! You can reuse a ziptie!!!!? #DIY #Lgbtqia #Trans ♬ original sound - Mercury Stardust
This was me, last week.
A jamboree of writers and musicians hanging out on a gorgeous Sunday, beans and rice bubbling out front, saying hi to acquaintances and 2/3 of lmnl and relishing the creative offerings.
Poetry makes me feel dumb sometimes, but then suddenly it makes me feel, and that moment is everything.
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Once again, times are tough and it’s hard to know how worried to be.
No one believes anything about the election that is already underway (the polls are wrong, the media is lying) or wait, no, everyone believes everything being spewed out, the conspiracy theories and the bots flooding everything we see and hear.
It’s exhausting and I suppose that too is by design.
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A dear family member is two chemo treatments into a six-treatment regimen and the side effects are already dangerous, nearly life-threatening. They’re hanging in there but the news has been so relentlessly bad. It’s worrisome and exhausting. We spend time on Zoom each week just to see one another and joke around. I keep a private journal and screenshot everything and wonder who I’m writing it all down for? Future me?
It’s not like fiction where I relish not knowing the ending.
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I fell the other day, out of nowhere. Twisted the old ankle and down I went into a patch of grass. The dog I was walking whined in surprise, then stood next to me cronching the treats that had fallen out of my pocket. Stay here, I breathed, willing my legs to stop shaking so I could stand up.
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Where is there respite?
Part of me wants to bear witness, to be in community, but much of me wishes to go to sleep and wake up in February 2025 to a healed world. I just know we won’t get there by accident.
