"The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
"The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36978239-the-cut-out-girl
Doing it "the right way" doesn't seem to be any guarantee of getting the right outcome.
"Welcome everyone"
_incrediberry
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcHyzcHTort/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Today, I read a story"
_incrediberry
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcR5eofzOhj/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow Iz Ukulele Tutorial Easiest Version"
JJMilare
"Six O'Clock (Extended Version)"
Ringo Starr
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mkOAvWST-Hk&si=WuTCJWgmioF0NRZ_
"Baby Deer Trapped On A Freezing Pond"
u/Mr-Ouchen
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s/9nnCgQWwyF
"Another foreign object was thrown onto a WNBA court"
u/Darth_Ronin
"Who are they referring to? π€"
Val
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDPANxgL/
"I do it for me, for little me"
yourdailydoseofselflove
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcRfHAkPWin/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Trying to help..."
alchemicallyarticulate
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMyijmBOzI/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Imperious" - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
You have to be realistic about managing your expectations. Things don't just change overnight like that in the Earth realm.
Just imagine if you lived in a society where women got rewarded for being motherly and caring towards women with reproductive health issues.
Reading and sneezing loudly...
"Obituary: Gary Paulsen"
"Malcolm Bosse" - Wikipedia
Also, it was such a dreadful shock to find a possum corpse along with the towel in the cat carrier; I just keep getting reminded that that was a dreadful shock.
Need life to be nice to me because I think I might have a pinched nerve on the back of my neck on the left side, but also close to the middle, this time.
How much things can change or be different just because of some genetic circumstances and environmental differences. Here's The Beatles being dramatic and talented...
The Beatles - "Oh! Darling (Official Video)"
I find it to be one of life's challenges when just because people appreciate somebody's 's talent OR exquisite gifts, they say things like "so and so can do no wrong" when I know very well that "so and so" is a human being and can do plenty of wrong.
Listening to The Tenth Island on CD and eating warmed up vegetarian chili from Trader Joe's has been a peak experience. I'm on CD 7 now, the last CD. Also, my new brown slip on sandals with very thick high heels made me feel tall walking around the kitchen, like I'm on stilts. Opening and shutting the microwave and getting things out of cabinets is a lot more fun. And they go well with a dress that I like, but the skirt is a little long on the bottom.
"The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores by Diana Marcum" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39975783-the-tenth-island
"I've watched this film too many times not to have an opinion."
hjichan
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcL-5quBFsN/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I got so exhausted. Finally it's getting better. Survived.
"Anddd how is this medical care in 2026?"
laine.bruzek
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbeszkXD9-1/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Wanted to go to a singing event but had to stay home and take a nap because I got soooo sleepy...
"Carrot Tarte Tartin / Upside Down Tart #carrot"
CapucineEmily
https://youtube.com/shorts/S3eyA2QiP7w?si=nuTGQtOD_M7GR4c0
"The dressing Grandma kept in her fridge all summer"
WyseGuide
https://youtube.com/shorts/xsvG9aOKCfs?si=OEVLMvxvmUSDLskg
"Viral Korean Sweet Potato Hack"
kalejunkie
https://youtube.com/shorts/ekOTPrWct5s?si=LPh-W7kMIIE8jWu6
I dare to dream that if some people who have been through a lot themselves (and perhaps haven't worked through their own traumas enough yet), invariably encounter someone who's been through even worse things, perhaps even a small child who's not grown up yet, I hope they're not going to behave in taunting manner towards an even more traumatized human being when they could be doing a lot better.
"Yay! Now you get to learn how to have more patience with stubborn people."
versus
" Yay! Now you get to have more fun and work on creative projects together."
It's so averagely patriarchal for people to not want to listen to or care about what some women are experiencing. Going along with the "norm" is very important. Fitting in with what the Patriarchal Society wants is sooo important.
soopbrains
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDysqqa3/
But apparently a lot of women are getting better treatment if they bring husbands and boyfriends to doctor's appointments, like what they've been doing at auto mechanic shops. And they're sharing those experiences all over social media platforms now. So that's an interesting development.
I feel like cult dynamics are just far too exhausting and not the best for everyone's health right now.
"'I Can’t Focus on My Schoolwork’: A High School Student Agonizes That Her Parents Will Be Seized While She’s in Class"
"How Many Sexual Abusers Have We Cheered For During The World Cup?"
https://lataco.com/fifa-world-cup-sexual-abusers
"Trump administration to open untouched national forests to logging"
"The U.S. debt tops a record-shattering $40 trillion. Yes, with a T."
Some people remind me of what ICE agents are probably doing every day just so they can say, it's just a job, I'm just doing this for the paycheck.
"$ome people have aligned themselves with behaviors that are akin to toxic masculinity in order to survive in a patriarchal society, and that's what you're getting from them right now."
People who you'd have thought would be acting a lot more empathetic and compassionate towards others right now... Well, that's not what they're doing. For some reasons.
"The system meant to protect ICE detainees has collapsed" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/20/nx-s1-5850361/grievance-ice-detention-immigrants
I don't know how you can even have fun when some people are so determined to be mean?
I don't care if some of you are reincarnated lords; you can stop acting like it.
So first, there was a wounded juvenile raccoon, and a raccoon symbolizes wearing a mask, like when people are always masking.
Then there was a whole bunch of stuff going on so we could get the raccoon to a rescue place. Felt grateful and made a donation.
However, the raccoon had to be euthanized the next day anyway.
Finally we get the carrier back and unbeknownst to us it contains a dead possum.
In conclusion, maybe it's better to just get animal control to euthanize the creature right away next time?
I wonder if they have some decaf options.
"lil morning adventures"
destany.sweet
"Thought it was just the big cities at first"
Beater2Beamer
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDUuVUHd/
"#fyp #viral_video #lgbtπ"
Michael_Foote
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDUuUVJD/
"Friends/Fam"
_✨trresπΉ_
"It's a Sin to Tell a Lie"
brenda.cummings.33
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcL_lCeR9TY/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"π This sketch is pure comedy gold!"
Ferrellimpactsnl
https://youtube.com/shorts/bLyvgz13qYM?si=OawerzX8-Qz2jNXL
"he wants to tell u a secret"
quddusgorden
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DatRTDyJTCr/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
At least maybe there's some nicer spirits out there who don't find it as socially advantageous to discriminate against certain kinds of people so much and so often in exchange for the short term benefits.
"25+ Heart-Healthy Recipes with 6 Ingredients or Less"
https://www.eatingwell.com/heart-healthy-recipes-with-6-ingredients-or-less-12063552
Psssst psssst psssst bunch of selfish, materialistic control freaks psssst psssst psssst actually that one's not even a very nice person sometimes psssst psssst psssst oh look out, here come the guards...
People like you make reading literature about the holocaust feel like a relief sometimes.
"Dutch divorcee signs divorce papers π #sketchcomedy"
@letsdoubledutch
Thank you for being a friend in a parallel reality, LOL!
Why do you have to be such a snob, so determined when it comes to not listening to certain kinds of people, just because a very imbalanced society trained you that if you acted that way, then you could fit in better with the prejudiced ones who were supposedly more favored by the imbalanced society.
"If it's the devil they want..."
maka.the.bean.queen
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKeKaaspCz/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Why emotionally immature people cannot hear you"
francescapsychology
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcOXs3ho-Ep/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"1 year ago today and 1 year since the death Carlos Roberto Montoya"
chicadeluz_
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcPO3VfBTR6/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Chibbi was one of our first volunteers"
handsoff.stockton
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcNVXbFOs7k/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"This was an uncomfortable reality to accept"
Carter Brown
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTDUUGmHo/
"Thank you @Gabby George"
"Daily Memo: An Increasing Number Of ICE Detainees Are Being Deported To Africa"
lataco
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMWXgOPXbx/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The Trump Regime is building an ICE concentration camp just for children."
therealchancemeeting
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcOp_rqMhbO/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I also wish this Society valued the women & girls who are not inside of the ICE facilities and treated them better.
"and why these things are encouraged by other women but not the advancement of female medicine
‼️‼️‼️‼️ EXPLAIN"
emeleedahla
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcL6FoxRdzc/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#peachcobbler #lunchladyenergy"
breakroom.chronicles
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcPF5L2Smu-/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I got the peach cobbler flavor for the shaved ice I bought the other night, and it had cinnamon on it. It was really good.
"Write 'Mermaid' in the comments"
babushka_en
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK0MpW7IVeI/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
# bimbostoicism
babushka_en
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMOfK_Cqnu/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Recovering from shocking things happening again.
"Opinion | Status Defines Friendship for Too Many Americans"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/opinion/friendship-luxury-good.html
Sounds like Harvard is coming down in the world.
"Why the Closing of Harvard’s Writing Center Matters"
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/harvard-writing-center-closure/688331/
I just discovered a dead possum was left inside the hard cat carrier. I thought it was just a dirty towel, but no, it was a dead possum too. That was inside of the apartment for days. Oh my God.
"Well it must have been dead when you brought the carrier back."
"It could have been a live possum. I didn't look inside the carrier."
Oh my God oh my God oh my God oh my God.
Oh my God.
I think it was probably dead.
Because when I read it as a kid and loved it sooo much, I even got my grandma to read it when she visited the island:
"The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare"
https://goodreads.com/book/show/830182.The_Sign_of_the_Beaver
(But I prefer the one I had, a pale green 1980s cover with the two boys next to a stream on it.)
Because I never read it and lately I am curious about it:
"Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1) by Gary Paulsen" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50.Hatchet
But I never lived in Covina so that's not the way it is. Good on us for getting out when they raised the rents and finding a place with a yard! Still feels awfully close, though.
"Take notes!!"
ricardosalvadormirandaa
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMt0lrP-Ui/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"What a major discovery!"
daviethegoliath
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZi2-crv5nj/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Elevate art that helps you more but not so much the cult of celebrity culture, I would say.
I'm sorry to have to say this, but sometimes people who are insensitive or too focused on dealing with the world by only relying on their own pleasure seem just a hair away from being one of those guys in the Epstein files, and a bunch of stuff that passes for normal right now is not going to look so good in the future, because people are actually getting more sensitive, not less sensitive.
Or something. As if this life's memories are woven in with remembrances of other eras.
Duran Duran - "Come Undone (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Epj84QVw2rc&si=08weLJa1wpGb2wvm
"Can't believe everyone that passed by said no"
rearseatrobert
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcNHUP4Dt5-/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#mentalhealthawareness"
klatopathian
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMigO7Md6l/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#bimbostoicism"
babushka_en
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMOfK_Cqnu/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"25 Forgotten Diner Sandwiches America Used to Order"
@Retro State America
"Casa Susanna" | Chapter 1 | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE |
https://youtube.com/watch?v=bZJzBRpuQ9I&si=EwYldnHMFwnR8cMn
"This Tiny Upstate NY Town Has 7 Bookstores"
@gabsmall
Some of the idea is that it's good to protest what ICE is doing when you know you're not one who is at risk of getting kidnapped, because that's helping show the people who are at risk of getting kidnapped that they are human beings who matter to you. And perhaps even more so, it shows other people who also probably won't get kidnapped but who worry about them more than you do (because it's their neighbors and coworkers and friends and family) that you still care anyway.
"Serving Joy (Award Winning Dark Comedy)"
@reeelhorrorshow
"THREE COLORS (Krzysztof KieΕlowski)" - 4K Restoration
Then the heart softens and people want to go back to enjoying life and a variety of pleasures. Because maybe having a softer heart and enjoying life and a variety of pleasures is a natural state. So, what is to be done when the state threatens the natural state?
"Your generation constantly treats white men better than any other kind of human being on this entire planet. Full stop. This is not about having an argument. You need to acknowledge you have been doing this and figure out why. Maybe you can journal about this when you get the opportunity."
I've heard zero moms in real life express any concern for the health of women and girls after this administration made everything more dangerous for their bodies, and why do you think that is? Well, a lot of them grew up when people thought feminism was a bad word or something and they didn't want to use it to describe themselves. I just think they were socialized to not talk about such things and I don't see how that's actually to their benefit most of the time.
I mean it wasn't that long ago that somebody was threatening to kill my sister on the job and I had to fight people we knew because everybody wanted her to just stick it out and go with HR so she could keep her health insurance and HR wasn't goddamn f****** helping; and if they they'd been the only ones around, I think she would not be alive now. I'm scarred for life. I spent my entire life trying to help people stay alive. That's how it feels when I look back at it right now. And then people who've been more successful at being colder and less sensitive have the audacity to act like that means nothing. Well, of course. Why should I be surprised?
Anyways, if I were a man, I think some people would have had more respect for my points of view and been nicer to me because men do all kinds of stuff and get forgiven for it all the time.
Like what have you forgiven men for lately that you wouldn't forgive me for if I did it, cuz you haven't forgiven me for just having a different point of view and not expressing myself in the "nice enough" way that the Patriarchal Society says all the females are supposed to express themselves?
thesidewalkschool2
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcM7mSiB_6u/?igsi=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Maybe it's paid off for some celebrities, but they are not most people.
"π₯BIG UPDATE!"
memiq.exe
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcL_6epz2pf/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"What is micro-feminism?"
murderofcrones
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbQpokMOIGY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"After watching Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey..."
kristindianesanders
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcItqVxjOwJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"can't even get a matcha in peace"
giannachristiine
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dav6rjUD2nZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Mind you I was 22 at the time"
scoutgrayyy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCPS_Ayz-v/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I would have to have an anvil dropped on my head to be like I'm just going to be another white skinned mom who is content with raising a white skinned baby who came from my white skinned body and being such a docile servant to the white supremacist patriarchal horror show that's currently treating so many people so freaking badly.
Kidnappings! Concentration camps! Lifelong traumas! Blatant oppression of people's bodies! Because of the racism and the sexism! I don't have the ability to be fine with that. I don't know how to ignore it and just focus on my own house to take care of, or whatever.
I don't understand how people can be so blatantly disinterested in female empowerment when it would be so good for humanity. And it clearly is needed because look at what's happened with the men who got put in charge, and they basically just got put in charge because people who voted for them were greedy and wanted money. Hardly anybody who voted for those guys actually wants to hang out and be friends with them. They just thought that they would benefit from them financially.
"THREE COLORS (Krzysztof KieΕlowski) - 4K Restoration Trailer"
"Thick thighs save kitty lives"
mandyshares
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcKAQ_rJSFz/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#historical #dating"
westofkat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcLpnC9OOtT/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It's a real problem!"
thelizzietea
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJVBGvOIRN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I Flew on the Hindenburg's Final Flight in 1937 π"
@Esmetimetravels
"Hindenburg Disaster - Real Footage (1937)" | British PathΓ©
"You and Your Fu*king Coffee: Episode 7 - 'Lakehurst, 1937'"
@JASH
I wonder what kind of person Osho could have reincarnated as if he came back as a woman. What if he wanted to be a female feminist musician type of person? Would he have be like a cult leader still, or would he be different?
It's like I see a mother, a woman, and she's saying do you want me to do it for you, like pouring cough syrup into a spoon and telling them to swallow it.
Stubborn people seem like bullies and they seem like people that I don't want to bring traumatized children around because they're acting so childish even though they're adults.
Maybe I have an inner child that doesn't want to be around those people or something. Maybe it's for other reasons. But stubborn people do not seem too trustworthy.
What if you just say, "Dangerous stuff is happening to some people and it might happen to somebody we know. That's going to hurt if it does happen to us, so it makes sense to be vigilant."
By the way, some of us are already pretty hurt that it's happening, but not everybody is sensitive.
"Review: The Cut Out Girl, by Bart Van Es"
https://www.draliceviolett.com/the-cut-out-girl-by-bart-van-es/
"It’s very timely, as well; I feel even more disgusted by the separation of immigrant children from their families at US Border Patrol now I’ve read this biography. It’s inevitable that we’ll see another cohort traumatised in similar ways in the not very far future."
Dr. Alice Violett
I really don't like the "look away when people are getting kidnapped" dynamic that's going on sometimes.
If your version of Joy is about defiantly ignoring others, is that really The Greatest Joy You Can Ever Possibly Experience?
"The catching coordinator for a major league baseball team who has been in the United States legally for 10 years"
"Oswaldo Pirela was kidnapped by ICE at El Paso Airport in Texas."
chelseaisgods
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMDVeYgmIe/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
That is quite enough for today, spirits.
We will get better acquainted again later.
"feminism is a trend to you"
themindfulnesscoach
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daf5RD3Rgu1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I feel like the spirits think the spaghetti video was really important!
"You Can't Break Spaghetti in Two Pieces"
Rahulrocks011
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/RItTlpGL1b
"Wise cooking tips"
u/Rotten-Pieces88
Henry's Kitchen 100 - "High Class Expensive Quesadilla"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HbLwfvNjaKU&si=AvgIK9vsBzd0Cwgv
Henry's Kitchen 100 - "High Class Expensive Quesadilla"
And then, as a fun surprise, there was also this one!
G-Eazy - "Lady Killers II (Christoph Andersson Remix)"
You have to put priorities on things, like being able to buy food and clothing that fits the currently plus size 2X body. Sometimes size 1X.
Took third place in a turf competition at the San Diego Convention Center in 2016. Seems like I knew a lot more about grasses and weeds back then. It was really fun to study them!
"chelsea_rami :mi pecho ocupe su amor, y su amor no quiero perder"
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT_XOaokpDa/?img_index=4&igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==