I keep trying figure out when it's a good time to try to travel to South Carolina. I want one of these elephant ear bird baths my sister made. I don't know if I could fit it into a suitcase. It seems too big.
The hospice in home (or apartment) project in Michigan sounds like a big endeavor to oversee, requiring the coordination of many people who didn't always find it so easy to get along in the past, but it sounds like they're getting along better now.
I asked the universe to help me believe that more benefit will come out of having a calmer nervous system. It's been so enjoyable this afternoon to be able to swim, and I will also eat some Hawaiian BBQ with aloha salad, and learn ukulele.
"the REAL reason why"
norahdechant
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8i_ynOHVQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Trump orders Pentagon to redesign US aircraft carrier to use steam catapults to launch jets | Donald Trump" | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/trump-aircraft-carriers-steam-catapults
The Beatles - "Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight"
@N3WS4I
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b1q5sn21ZkQ&si=JJfaDCGYJU18hTn2
"beatles Piano Kit Walker Julia"
@juana2212
Human beings (not AI) can correct them, and it will make them feel good about themselves!
"Historians believe the Holy Spirit tradition began with Joachim, a monk born in Calabria circa 1135. He was the abbot of a monastery in Fiore, Italy. He came to believe that the Trinity -- the Father, Son and Holy Ghost -- represented different ages for humanity. The age of the Father was in the past. They were living in the age of the Son, and ahead was the age of the Holy Spirit, according to Joachim's reading of scripture. He foretold that in this new era there would be no separation between everyday life and the sacred. The Empire of the Holy Spirit would bring peace, justice, equality, intolerance. The idea of such a utopia on Earth took hold with many people including Dante, who placed Joachim in paradise in his Divine Comedy."
~ Diana Marcum
Page 205 - 206
"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
"The Feast of St. Joachim"
"The token gringo"
isabelhaygood
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db62rLKu747/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"the REAL reason why"
norahdechant
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8i_ynOHVQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Pops deserves an Emmy for this one 🏆"
savvygirlfriend
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbqai6KufHe/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I just think it's funny how some people seem to respect certain kinds of deaths and disappearances more they respect other types of deaths and disappearances, and I think maybe it's because of the programming they received at a very early age.
"The 'Land of the Free' is no longer..."
riseabovejusticemovement
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcBSRpRM9Ts/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Did he say these instruments are a national security threat; I can't even tell anymore.
"the government said this is a problem so..."
jgover_210
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db7OLQ8Cveh/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
KATIA POJIDAEVA - "CAPITALISM (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=foOttOKke5A&si=mGcUEZaRG7BhEnDD
Grimes - "Dream Fortress (Official music video)"
She told me that one time, she met this girl who whose mother had died and it was really crazy because you know how the mother died? The girl's brother killed the mother! And the girl whose mother had died was like, what should I do? She was close with her brother, and then her brother killed her mother. Her brother was on drugs, and the girl had also started taking drugs when she was younger, but then she chose a different path. The brother was on drugs when he killed the mother. And you know what the mother, who was deceased, said. She said, would you believe I'm not even mad? And then the girl was like, yeah she would say that. So anyways, what happened was the brother, when he looked at the mother, he saw love and he couldn't deal with it because he was so filled with loathing over his drug addiction and he ended up feeling like he was being judged by the mother for his drug addiction and it was so painful he couldn't stand it and he killed her, but it was him judging himself. And after her death, the mom wasn't even mad about it. Anyways, the task for the girl whose mom had died in that way was to find other people who had been killed by family members. And right about it too, I think. Write. Maybe.
Grimes - "Vanessa (Official Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=2-aWEYezEMk&si=D7FGcAu6osq9JHjc
Grimes - "Flesh without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream"
This is the kind of writing problem, I mean prompt, that could apply to multiple kinds of children with multiple kinds of mothers in multiple kinds of situations.
"If you don't like it, maybe you should have picked a different mom. Ha - ha!"
Who's being sensitive? Who's sensitive about what and why? Who's being sensitive?
Taylor Dayne - "I'll Be Your Shelter"
I just fell asleep like normal. I didn't feel like any of the spirits were trying to get into bed with me or anything. I guess they could see that I was kind of burned out. I have to watch my diet better because I think the inflammation gets to me when I'm sensitive.
The woman who wrote it said that after her brother died, she was able to start communicating with his Spirit really really quickly. People in her conservative family couldn't do it but she could.
"You Are A Channel" by Sarah Landon
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/199457100-you-are-a-channel
Aerosmith - "Dream On (Lyric Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kR4zpS-ky9o&si=u76lnmbPmR076YqY
Because I went to the farm and the house in Michigan every summer, I was always kind of sad that I never got to take any of my friends there. But there was one exception, there was one person I took out there, and I remember when he went out to the farm, and my grandfather was all attitudinal with him and he was trying to help by moving a board or something, and my grandfather was like, do you think that's helping, gee, I could have just done it myself, and it was embarrassing my grandpa was like that, but it's also really funny to remember it right now. My grandma was very sweet though!
What's next? "How to worship your twin friend like a cult leader?" LOL, no way! I understand that you've been able to develop certain talents in this life that I haven't developed yet, but vice versa, man.
I feel like I was having lots of fun the other night. You know. And I felt awesome, and I felt like oh this is so cool that I get to have fun talking to Lucy. I am so lucky! It's really different from that other kind of feeling I've gotten which was like, I don't understand why I have to be outcast for being different. That's not a fun feeling. Anyway. My friend's roommate with the psychic abilities also wrote down Michigan and was like, oh my gosh I wrote down Rajneesh. I didn't know that was Osho!
Living in a body can be very humbling. I feel like my body thinks I should get quieter and better at taking care of myself and do not eat and drink rebelliously right now because it's asking for more healing than that.
"After I stopped recording she told me..."
jeffritogringuito
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db9Z4VkBKHi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"It's raining men 🎵"
"Why do you think they responded like that"
vicbrugger
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db05ACJKMsQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Reno, Nevada"
thesidewalkschool2
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcAJv_rhCOS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The first rule of calm, quiet feminist writing club is that you take the prompt seriously. Consider the following!
What evidence have you seen in your lifetime that Your Patriarchal Society would like:
for the men to have better access to more resources
for the women to treat the men better
for the women to treat other women with less respect than men
for the women to treat other women as competition for men's attention
and which men have you met who seem to like it better when things are still that way?
My friends friend said she wrote down the word Michigan and got out the map and she was looking at it. My father's wife in Michigan went into hospice care today (for cancer.) A lot of people have that when they die.
Think of what will bring you the feelings of tranquility and peace and balance...
For sensitive people with certain genetics it is better to learn to relax more and not overdo it in one area. Otherwise it really can take a toll on certain bodies with certain genetics. This is sad to experience, but it is just the truth.
I have for a long time had memories of passing away in a dramatic fashion and trying to talk to people afterwards, and they didn't want to listen or they weren't ready yet, so that's why I have a certain outlook on those kinds of things.
Sometimes people are not ready yet to talk to the spirit, but the spirit is ready to talk to them.
Working in a bookstore as a lowly salesperson was when I heard it for the first time and then I was beckoned towards other realms...
Paul Schwartz - "Ave María (Café Del Mar Aria II)"
I feel the universe is loving and has a sense of humor too. People can feel great love in the universe, but they could also feel great loss while they're here on Earth and so then it's hard for them to open up and have fun again sometimes.
Such is a life in this era.
"Why couldn't it have been..."
iamthepaintedlady
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db6Svb4TI4v/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Unfortunately, this is the sad reality"
u/mindyour
I felt like a mischievous spirit was here last night so much that I had to turn the light on before I went back to sleep.
Nine Inch Nails - "The Hand That Feeds" - Kawehi
"Concertmaster walks miles for his cat" - Slippedisc
https://slippedisc.com/2026/08/concertmaster-walks-miles-for-his-cat/
"Joe Lies" from Say Anything
amanfubrusko
I'm kind of afraid that "Kevin Can F**k Himself" is maybe going to make me feel sick? But will I laugh? So many questions. Too.
Isn't there a movie about a trad wife who goes back and finds out it's not all that fun to be trad wifey like she wanted it to be.
I think not dying in childbirth is worth quite a lot and look at all the crap they're doing to make people die in childbirth in the 21st century. That's pretty f***** up.
People are people! People are people. People are stressful though. You need a break from those kinds of people, sometimes.
Now they're saying...
"Did you ever want to actually just be like some girl's gigantic dildo? Because you've kind of acted like that sometimes!"
Lolololol!
Help me!
The Summer of 2026.
"Hi! Please pay attention"
"Wow, here's another recent case"
"Since ICE has electric gloves"
"Our favorite landscaper disappeared"
"bell hooks"
"Appalling. U.S. Navy sailors are trying to jump overboard"
"Kids are in jail at the Dilley Detention Center"
"San Diego sued the federal government and CORECIVIC for the right to do a health inspection"
spacebunnynews1
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZgNo_vh3qo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Watching a fuckload of TV shows is not going to save you." ~ Our Lord Phil Collins – "In the Air Tonight Lyrics"
MUCH more caring!
"San Diego sued the federal government"
spacebunnynews1
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZgNo_vh3qo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"💔 Moms, this is on us"
the_radical_mom
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWO0MsOkZ6Z/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I can't be the only one"
hackorwackwithdnkat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db9myS9yoXB/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
My grandma would handle this situation so much better.
Some people are being so annoying, they are so annoying, just so annoying...
"How Gaslighting actually works"
@PopCultureDetective
"She's gonna to have to be a monk."
becoolandi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaVnfEtxyvF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"ICE does not belong in our schools."
hilario4cps
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db9QgPYkwwJ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
With a good sniffer that's not appreciated.
And also like this time when I was young and my family went to see a dog at a no kill shelter that they wanted to give away because my mother didn't want to take care of the dog because she just didn't like her. She had a lot of health problems and my mother just didn't really like her. But we went to see her and she was like, hey, all happy to see us and then it didn't take very long for her to just be like, yeah, well I know you guys are going to leave anyway, so I'm kind of bored of you, so why don't you just go. Sigh! It was interesting to see that attitude in an animal.
"Why did people like Osho so much?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/WildWildCountry/s/1LplacnyW5
He liked cars like some people like shoes.
"In 2017, María Lorena Ramirez..."
missliz_martinez
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLiH1lSpAz-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"competitive...athlete...ultramarathoner, lives on the beach..." page 111
"The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood by Matthew Specktor" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/216724291-the-golden-hour
Money cult! LOL. You know that "Lollipop" song!
Chordettes - "Lollipop"
I have a curiosity about churches sometimes, but I don't really act on it, and I do not always enjoy the whole idea of people following the pastor of a church, almost as if maybe there could be a cultish thing going on, but I was told yesterday that sometimes online services at these two places are interesting.
"LivingWayTV"
https://youtube.com/@livingwaytv1555?si=zYQqQQoYArkAMw_3
"AgapeLiveTV"
https://youtube.com/@agapespiritualcenter?si=IDJswZmfydtspeOB
However, she said that services went down at the latter after the pastor and his wife, who was a musician, got divorced, and the attendance never recovered after COVID hit, but maybe that's a little gossipy.
"Gary Paulsen, author of 'Hatchet,' has died at 82" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045981769/gary-paulsen-hatchet-author-obituary
She said do you know Gary or Paul and I said no, but for some reason that makes me think of Gary Paulsen, and she said, they said author. So I'm like okay, maybe it's Gary Paulsen.
It's kind of fun to read this book right now because people who were the age of our parents (some of us) knew all of these films and actors that I have to keep looking up online.
I was sitting by young people who were old enough to drink on a date and the young man was telling the girl his mother gets hot flashes. Just thought of this album, which I don't have.
'Hot Flash (album)" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Flash_(album)
By the Uppity Blues Women.
His mom's probably my age.
"Like a Bad Twin..." 🎶
I almost went to visit some goats but I decided I needed a decaf coffee drink with maraschino foam.
"The world is filled with joys and boys will be so much less rude to you in the future."
It's very useful after you've gone and it continues and it is your legacy.
"The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood by Matthew Specktor"| Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/216724291-the-golden-hour
I think bad things are happening because people are just real control freaks when they have unresolved trauma.
Instead of thinking about how much more I would have been listened to in this life if I had been born in a different kind of body, and feeling pain in that body, I would like to go out in my cute sundress with my cardigan and enjoy a book and a drink.
"The story about immigrants coming to America..."
cancel.the.state
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5Hz4iC0q7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Can't stop"
gordygrayson
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ-Ygc9sX5L/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"the most expressive cat"
pennythegingercat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db0v_OyCVVE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Its ok if you're scared"
flowerinspanish and jcfrias
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db7GFC9PwcN/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
There's lots to process right now!
I have to stay inside all day, I think.
But maybe I'll change my mind about that in a half an hour.
We'll see.
"#genx #generationx"
drjenniferscott
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYuN5cnx8Yo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Dedicated to the men..."
nyssajasellephotography
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbmrRo0JJGi/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"U can't?"
motorinamakeup
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db3aUnBs_s8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"SHUT DOWN DILLEY NOW!"
berenice_dolls
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV7h3eUjpOU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"SHUT DOWN DILLEY NOW!"
berenice_dolls
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV7h3eUjpOU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"From powerful children's books to healing journals and cultural classics"
"Tammy Wallace ✍🏾✨"
tammywallace_3355
https://www.instagram.com/p/DVHMuu1Ej1e/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Survivor Story: Tammy Wallace..."
jaguarwright
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFyTyAyRolS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
However, sometimes the artwork was the same inside of the little ones and the big ones.
"a Little Golden Book CLASSIC.. Walt Disney’s DUMBO"
sydneystarlette
https://youtube.com/watch?v=26ir9ySl4ug&si=5fJzTd_-A2ZrtAyk
"Vintage 1970's Disney Bambi Big Golden Book!"
https://www.etsy.com/listing/750022357/vintage-1970s-disney-bambi-big-golden
Hang out later because processing information is happening right now, and I don't know. Can children's books help with this?
"a Little Golden Book CLASSIC.. Walt Disney’s DUMBO"
sydneystarlette
https://youtube.com/watch?v=26ir9ySl4ug&si=5fJzTd_-A2ZrtAyk
"Vintage 1970's Disney Bambi Big Golden Book!"
https://www.etsy.com/listing/750022357/vintage-1970s-disney-bambi-big-golden
For some reason, I feel like I want to go look up something about Jesus being denied three times in the Bible.
"Mexican Names Never Disappoint!"
shayfarmkid
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db5oCI4Juzp/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"haven't done one of these in a while"
mishmish.honey
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db7M4bJRBY6/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I was denied miscarriage care 3 times"
ashley_livinginchaos
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db8MGQexH8o/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The Divine Mother thinks we should do things that make us feel good and not just do them for the money, and we don't have to talk to some people if we don't feel like it. Also the Divine Mother was like telling my spiritual friend's psychic friend to think about other things, too, like "Margaret Fragoso." Apparently when she disappeared when I came around it was because something was telling her to go in her room and start writing.
"Hawaii: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=j8DxdibHibU&si=sd_p8Kw_qzVZMJLG
Lucy is funny. 😇
"I'm Mexican and I live in Portland"
themexinpdx
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYiosbQpoNw/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I'm still working on calling it the new name"
radicallyrose
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZa91fphkXo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"This man's boss is a monster and they call him a leader in the industry."
sophiaroxanneb
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db60rq5NJYR/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I got happy happy feelings tonight! Someone very sensitive and psychic was very happy to give me some new things to think about!
Some messages from the friend of my friend who apparently can tune into some things. She said she's been writing a lot when I come around to visit.
This morning she wrote:
Burns Forest Fell
and
Answers answers answers.
She thought it was about a character in the Simpsons. Today she was Lucy in The Sims game. She moved in here 2 years ago in August. She's been Lucy in The Sims game for a while or something.
She fell, like off a cliff, and was not killed by a bear but was dead for 6 hours and then a bear found the body. Most of her bones washed away to a watery place. Only some big bones she called the brontosaurus bones like the big bones of the thigh are in the original place. They are not reachable; ppl would have to go there by helicopter.
Searchers walked by them. She said there were 92 in the search party because one of the search party was smoking pot and letting the dogs do all the work.
She wrote down the children's names a few months ago. Spelling the names correctly.
She said her husband looked like Burt Reynolds when he was young.
She's been hanging around my friend's friend for years and my friend is relieved to finally have this off her back, and she said sorry not sorry!
She said, she goes the smoking didn't kill me, and slaps her knees.
Marlboro reds
Magnum P.I.
Bran cereal
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Overjoyed, thank you.
Don't do things for the money. Do things that feel good.
I'm pretty sure that I was really into reading spiritual stuff at an early age, way before most people and I had no idea that all of these weird things were going to happen that were going to completely mess around with my sense of equanimity, like as if I'm some sort of wounded wild creature that can be poked and disturbed easily after having escaped a traumatizing environment. I think that there were a lot of times in my childhood when I didn't seem especially traumatized and it's because I didn't know what was happening. Finding out what was happening later completely messed up my inner child. But anyways, the middle of life can be a good time to integrate and begin new things.
So what kind of compromises in relationships? Did a father-in-law Spirit have difficulty making?
I'm kind of sorry that I don't seem more peaceful sometimes. Like when I hang out with a spiritual friend and it's just real easy to be peaceful then but I don't know what to say. This is just the way it is right now. Peace as possible!
Does a more shallow and untenable lifestyle come along with it???
As I switch from Naughty By Nature being down with O.P.P. to Bea Wain singing about how she's Nobody's Baby, can I just say how exasperated I am and how much I wish I was living about 300 years into a more feminist future and how this is why sometimes I just scroll and scroll on Instagram because that's the only place I ever seem to find any feminist content. Like every time I turn on the radio it seems like the majority of the DJ's jobs is to just talk about how great male musicians are. Really. That seems like 95% of their job.
I feel disappointed with women in my generation sometimes. Kind of like I was disappointed way back when people at a baby shower were talking about how awful it is to raise girl babies and girl children and they liked talking like that. They had fun talking like that. They enjoyed putting down children. These were women with deep internalized misogyny issues. But anyways, with all the enjoyment they had talking about putting down girl babies, no wonder they didn't have a whole lot of energy left to see how complicated the whole reproduction issue is across the board with a wide variety of women because they're not taught to see that they're just taught to brag about themselves, probably at the expense of a lot of children actually. These women are the mothers of the children who now have fewer reproductive rights then they had. In some cases, people's daughters have been abducted this summer. I mean all kinds of people have been abducted, not just daughters. But really, I thought that we would be better than this. So I'm mad. Even though I am happy with some progress that has been made in society, I'm still mad. And that's the shadow side!
Tune in later for more Shadowy Stuff!
Also, I can't believe how not that long ago some people were actually yelling at each other about saying things like something looks shady is too much hey you know what looks shady ice agents look shady ice agents kidnapping people looking shady shady shady shady shady and putting them in concentration camps this summer huh this summer alright get a grip.
People are like flowers too, sometimes!
Okay, so I just had to say that as I was leaving the donut shop there was a brown-skinned person talking to himself. He seemed kind of homeless and schizophrenic and I did not go over and try to help him because as a woman I sometimes do not feel very safe with men who are not mentally well.
But then it's kind of like the universe gave me two gifts. One gift was another brown skinned man came by and honestly just from the way he was dressed and acting I think he was gay and he came up and was talking to the other brown skinned man and I thought maybe he's trying to help him.
And then as I was leaving the parking lot, there was this big crowd of cars and a car stopped for me and the brown-skinned guy driving it waved me in. Like being a nice guy, waving me in, wanting me to go in front of him, like a nice guy.
So who knows. Maybe I'm not such a b****, huh.
If someone else always has to water the bush while you're singing songs to it, then I mean maybe it's time for a little switcheroo.
Your "halfway to Proud Boys" literature is not going to be helping.
Should you eat a big grown-up lemon powdered donut and a big grown up raspberry jelly donut and two little baby donuts with sprinkles.
Just because you're lucky enough to not be suffering from tuberculosis in a Detention Center paid for by YOUR tax dollars at the moment?
You might be special enough to catch tuberculosis someday, if you're locked in a concentration camp.
Sadly, tuberculosis took Thoreau's life at the age of 44, or something like that.
"You are on stolen Native Land, and they keep stealing"
flowerinspanish
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Db3_U3xyCRC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
After all, who suffers the most when the people who were treated best by an imbalanced patriarchal society are being distressingly inarticulate?
Being articulate doesn't mean you have to agree exactly on everything right?
That would be like cult mentality thinking.
For example, one could say "I find that point of view to be distressing or too dogmatic because..."
"I can see why you would think that way. However, I still prefer to think in a different way about it, because..."
🤔
The country and our society needs to get A LOT better.
The kinds of situations that happen when abuse gets covered up in families play out again and again in other areas of life, and when people are just fine with acting complacent about it, they are not going to step up and change very much, are they?
'How do we explain ICE to our children?"| Opinion
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/08/08/how-do-we-explain-ice-to-our-children-opinion/
"Amal, age 6, and her 2-year-old sister have been distraught ever since their father was taken by ICE. They cry at length in the morning because their father was the one who made them breakfast and at bedtime because he was the one who tucked them in.
She tells me that Amal woke up that night, the terrible night he was taken. She heard her parents calling back and forth to each other from their apartment to the street below. She got out of bed and looked out the window. There, she told her mother, she saw her father on the sidewalk crying, surrounded by strange men. She saw him forced into a car and driven away.
Her mother tried to protect her, trying to turn the trauma into a palatable story. “Those are just friends of his,” she said. “He is going with them to do paperwork.”
But a 6-year-old puts the pieces together.
Amal looked at her mother and said, “No, those are NOT his friends. I have never seen them before. I KNOW his friends. And he was CRYING. I saw him crying! Those guys TOOK him. I saw them push him into a white car. Our car is black.”
The mother’s instinct to relabel the horror reminded me of the film “Life is Beautiful,” in which a father uses his boundless imagination to try to shield his young son from the horrors of the concentration camp they are in by pretending it’s all an elaborate game. But except in movies, illusions like these fall apart quickly."
~ Karen Levine Egee
The raccoon had a crushed leg, and that probably came from some kind of big impact to the leg, and it wasn't anything like our cat would have done to it. Cats usually just stare, or that's what our cat does if it comes to raccoons. So it probably just came to our yard seeking some safety after the injury happened. Poor little juvenile raccoon.
Perhaps it would have gotten euthanized quicker if it had gone back to the animal control facility after all, but I don't know. (It was apparently euthanized by a vet at the animal rescue place the next day.) Anyways, learned a lot from the little injured raccoon.
