reflecting on various topics
ok. Hi! I am planning an experiment. The experiment is this: for me to make a weekly post that has the purpose of 1) centering me on positive things and 2) connecting us, while hopefully 3) providing respite from **the horrors that persist**, especially the political horrors that persist. I have considered re-naming my blog …
(for those who aren’t familiar with this, yes, I know “thot” has an additional meaning but I just really like writing it because it fits better than “thoughts,” ok. and also I think it’s funny and feel free to ignore me. it just makes me smile. because idk…. “thought” just feels like a lot to …
Do you remember the book The Velveteen Rabbit (by Margery Williams) ? I remember being touched by it when I was a kid. A stuffed animal rabbit becomes a living rabbit, because of being loved. The problem with being real is that the world is not safe. It would be really nice if the world …
There is a heaviness over me, right now. It’s situational and warranted. I’ve been going through old photos and it’s exquisitely painful to me for a bunch of reasons at once. I see how quickly my kids are growing. I see how recently my life was different than it is now, and think of what …
I read something recently that a friend of mine posted online: Lean on the artists. They gift us reprieve, respite & often a way forward. — Grateful David ✌🏼❤️⚡️💙💀🌹 (@gratefuldavid.bsky.social) February 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM It impacted me. I thought about every major tragedy that has happened, and about the art that people kept …
I’ve been listening to Millenium (Backstreet Boys) lately. It’s my go-to comfort music at the moment. It transports me, every time I listen to it. Sometimes it transports me to the past, and I remember what it was like when I first heard them in middle school. Today I pictured myself in an old-folks home, …
Don’t hate me, ok? Ok. I love Valentine’s Day, because I’m a twee tweederdee at heart. Well. Not all the time but a lot of the time I’m a twee tweederdee at heart. I did make up that word. I feel like Valentine’s Day is a whole lot like Thanksgiving except for couples. There’s this …
I’ve been feeling a lot of pain, lately. Some of it’s physical, most of it’s emotional. Sometimes my humor runs thick, and sometimes I just glare at it, like, “No, you wanted to make a joke? Right now? How dare you.” Deflection and denial, my even self-gaslighting occasionally, to cope. I have grief ahead of …
(my Canon is broken so I’m left with washed out Pinephone selfies) How are you coping with things? Sometimes there is no way to cope with things other than continuing to exist. I suppose that is what coping actually means. To find a way through, or past, to simply persist in life. Usually when I …
I’m thinking of everyone affected by the southern CA fires, right now. It’s a lot of people that I know. I used to live in that area, as did a lot of my ancestors. A family farm (started a few generations back) in that area burned down completely a few years ago, as did the …
