Maybe the golden grass in the hills will get greener again this spring.
Anyways, one can hope.
Saturday, April 25, 2026
Really great song!
🎶💐❤️
Fiona Apple - "Paper Bag"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BK30r_SIZ-g&si=ol-hJl7OU6rF38nB
😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾
"Fiona Apple once called her encounter..."
Maybe I could do a role reversal in regards to this someday, ha-ha.
"Patton Oswalt: Talking for Clapping"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXjeXICDRNL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
💖Nature💖
Nature and simple art!
glitterhog "My heart..."
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNL-qTmv-nsh9bY2pGc3JM-L6B9xju8jr41Ofc0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
So regulating! 😺
Cute and calming cat content.
"old familiar places..."
lucilletherescuecat
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXj6NsvkalE/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What the hell?
I thought the other one was the abusive Beatle!
"We all sat down with our drinks..."
emmarosakatharina
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXJVY7vjAu1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Literary discussion...
Maybe I should participate on these kinds of forums more often.
"Emily of New Moon (and beyond) dog and cat symbolism"
I think the most interesting information in these magazines are the lists of restaurants.
Apparently I live near 30 high-elevation vineyards. I didn't know that. There's two tasting rooms. I knew that.
It sounds like she had quite an interesting grandmother.
She explains why she says "Nobody cares."
"Ox..."
tetyanawrites
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVcGpX0Dr4K/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Witchy.
"The pattern is older than you"
thesteministwitch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXQM5U_jJBI/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
A 🎵 genre: vulnerable / sarcastic (?)
"Katie Gavin – Aftertaste Lyrics"
https://genius.com/Katie-gavin-aftertaste-lyrics
She seems to be referencing "The Emperor's New Clothes" in her lyrics.
Anyways, not really.
I would like to go to a bar and drink now. Well you're not going to because it's 6 a.m. Also, people drink coffee in the morning and that's a much better beverage for you now. But you don't have to drink that, either.
A lot more years, or not???
How many more years do some people have to be poor and traumatized just so some other people can feel more special?
This would be a fun food song to cover.
Mary Prankster – "Mac & Cheese Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Mary-prankster-mac-and-cheese-lyrics
She has some other fun songs, too.
Every formative experience leads to another.
Honestly, it really feels like the super reliable adults are in such incredibly short supply sometimes.
Maybe I'll have a weird sleep and get some insights.
Indie artists who give you that "You can't fight City Hall" feeling.
One encounters people when out in nature sometimes.
One of these includes a picture of a boy feeding gummy bears to ants and talking to them.
Friday, April 24, 2026
It's a hard knock life.
"Forget ‘Abolish ICE.’ Tom Steyer Wants to Jail ICE Agents.
And he might just be California’s next governor."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tom-steyer-wants-to-jail-ice-agents-california-governor-campaign
So excited about civil rights!
Gonna make someone watch Part 2 of the Thoreau documentary with me real soon. I made an entertainingly exaggerated laugh and the cat ran away. Oops. Cat parents make mistakes sometimes!
Just paying a little bit of attention to some tough stuff; just a little!!!
Also, going to take myself on a good walk in nature soon. 🐦🌳🐇🌄
"GLP-1 makers failed"
therealebjohnson
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Y05dGo1i/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Stay safe..."
andraberghoff
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXIJJTPAJYK/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It's a feeling of being well; what a luxury.
Oh my gosh, I've gone a lot of days without seething teething / compulsively chewing on my clothes or fingers. Again, this is what it's like to be feeling much better in a certain space. Now I feel rich!
Beauty...wait, is the lyric "Building" ?????
"i think everyone should know this song"
playboymommy
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkCyo8fe/
"like talking to a pile of bricks"
Mel 🏳️🌈 | Clinic Defender
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkCf8jxc/
Tori Amos - "Caught a Lite Sneeze (Official Music Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=weWtRqoSUOI&si=ce9xj2zKhAiOUMqk
🌬️🥀🌹💐
Tori Amos – "Caught a Lite Sneeze Lyrics" | Genius Lyrics
Yeah I saw a little plastic kids vacuum cleaner out there and I didn't take a picture of it.
Sometimes I like finding the comments under the videos that indicate a deeper level of suffering.
Qveen Herby - "Sugar Daddy"
Well, maybe this was the optimal time to hear it.
This is the first time I ever listened to the first couple of songs on this album, and it's E X T R E M E L Y fun and pretty to listen to.
S U F J A N - S T E V E N S / I L L I N O I S
What's it called whatever the singer is doing at around 2:25 -2:30ish in this take?
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Take 5 - Remastered)"
The Beatles
A Very Silly and Musical Soap Opera.
"We will return to 'The Opposite of Disenfranchised Grief' after a collection of important messages from our sponsors."
It could be they want our planet to get better.
Maybe some good alien intelligences are concerned about the disparity when it comes the way certain people are being treated and how it is affecting children. How ridiculous is it that somebody who is born to a certain set of circumstances is more likely to get kidnapped and be put in a very unnurturing place?
Art class / younger people dream.
The universe or a dream is putting in my head that we met when we were really young in an art class and didn't talk too much. I was would just see you from across the room and then we got separated and I was like oh that person was nice. I really wonder what happened to him. But we didn't meet in an art class. Maybe that's just what could have happened.
Wow! I was dozing off again.
Episode one of the Thoreau documentary has been completed, so progress is slowly unfolding.
"Step Aside, Pops (Hark! A Vagrant, #2) by Kate Beaton"| Goodreads
Thursday, April 23, 2026
I'm confident I will go in the direction of my dreams and watch the Thoreau documentary within ten minutes.
"Step Aside, Pops (Hark! A Vagrant, #2) by Kate Beaton"| Goodreads
I'm excited I get to watch the rest of the Thoreau documentary because I drank coffee.
I'm going to drink the not overly caffeinated coffee occasionally because my uric acid levels were higher when I took my blood tests. And my big toe hurts and that makes doing planks problematic. And when that pain first started they said it wasn't gout, but I don't believe them. They didn't measure my uric acid levels back then. I think I found a better doctor this time.
I think I'm really different from all the people who've lived and died before, but I just have little commonalities with some of them. And the universe thinks I'm supposed to pay attention to their stories for this reason. One day I'll be dead, and then whoever comes after this person I am now will be their own unique individual as well.
Theoretically...
I would do more yoga for some people. I would start figuring out how to make my muscles denser too. I would try on more fun clothes and get more into artistic activities, to accomplish my soul's mission on Earth.
Well, wherever that comes from...
"Do you think if there are any children who are being incarcerated right now who are in danger of getting eating disorders on account of being so stressed out about their experiences, that if you teach them the right mouth breathing techniques, they can get better and more secure financial situations for themselves when they get out and grow taller and older and wiser?"
I would do it again.
I wonder what it would feel like to visit this place again now that I am older.
"Ralph Waldo Emerson House | 28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, MA"
https://visitconcord.org/listings/ralph-waldo-emerson-house/
Compared to the last time I visited it, when I was glad the tour was rushed, and I had to pee the whole time, and I felt rather irritated.
Anyways, hmmm, fascinating.
"For every ten pounds of fat lost in our bodies, eight and a half pounds of it comes out through the lungs; most of it is carbon dioxide mixed with a bit of water vapor. The rest is sweated or urinated out. This is a fact that most doctors, nutritionists, and other medical professionals have historically gotten wrong. The lungs are the weight-regulating system of the body."
"Breath Quotes by James Nestor(page 7 of 27)"
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/74281999-breath-the-new-science-of-a-lost-art?page=7
Getting loquacious sir?
👩🏽🎨🎨🖼️💅🏽
"Ariana grande and Cynthia erivo are just one example of a larger more wicked issue."
andraberghoff
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DRndR1XkTVs/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Elon sat next to me on two planes because he remembered me and was entranced by my nice treatment of his son years before at a museum and also I guess I treated him kindly enough, too. And he wanted to know if I had kids and he wanted to know if I thought he was attractive and there was a whole thing about not taking a gift from him in the gift shop back when I saw him at the La Brea Tarpits Museum, and he wasn't pleased. I wouldn't take the gift. And also in the airport he wanted to buy me something in the shop but he was a calmer person about it when I said no thanks, and he was just more chill and he put on his airpods s lot but also made conversation sometimes and he didn't seem that bad. And sometimes he seemed like he was just a kid himself. And now he's this weird phenomenon that he wasn't even like back then. And on the plane he acted almost like this kind of soft-spoken guy who grew up on a farm or something when he sat next to me and he told me about other projects. He sort of acted like he was just a car dealership owner or something. And he wanted to know if I believed in UFOs. And I feel like the blonde fairy girl on my t-shirt was an additional factor. I did not take his business card, even though at least one person who was sitting next to him told me it was a mistake that I wouldn't take it, and he wanted to talk to me more and said please wait and then I smiled at him and said I had to go. And later he dated Grimes and now he's the father of a huge amount of children by many different women. So I think there's multiple things to consider processing if you've had a certain amount of strange life experiences. And you can't just pretend you didn't have them just to make other people feel more comfortable. You're going to have to process them.
I almost feel like I did when I was 19 and packing my bags before I took my first trip down to Peru!
So much reading material!
This is only a fraction of it.
My cat doesn't think she's less cute because she's rounder now!
Why should people's children? And they also shouldn't be incarcerated based on which parents they were born to, either.
The aliens are messing with the YouTube algorithm.
"I convinced him to take the trance away. #movie"
Doupiaoliang
I wouldn't doubt that incarcerated children have a higher chance of developing an eating disorder when they get out.
It's very stressful for them to have to endure that kind of lifestyle. People who have been through stressful situations are susceptible to developing stress-related disorders.
Now versus a long time ago has been on my mind lately.
I mean, consider that Spanish princess, Isabella Claire Eugenia, who was tall and thin, and was a big fan of Rubens when she was in the Netherlands, and he painted so many Ruben-esque women. Well nowadays, it seems like society believes the richer people deserve to have the look thinner eating disorders, and the poorer people deserve the look fatter eating disorders. I mean, I suppose that's not entirely accurate, probably? Because some poor people can have skinny genetics. But I still feel like there's a ring of truth to it.
Pretty interesting find after a little search...
Fiona Apple - "Paper Bag"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BK30r_SIZ-g&si=gxIvlvfUIlE9eZs4
Is this song about having an eating disorder? I had thought of it more in terms of, like, emotional starvation, but the internet has suggested that it's also about having an eating disorder.
I listened to lots of adult music when I was a kid.
Just randomly, off the top of my head, one song that comes to mind is "Bang Bang, Maxwell Silver..." It was funny, and catchy. The adults would listen to it and laugh and the kids would laugh, too. But it's also violent! Hmmm.
Why does this one exist? (It's one that got stuck in my head recently.)
Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - "Back to Oz"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=00f2kSnIxfw&si=xgtkNLHUilpYckDb
Do the kids listen to it?
If I'm supposed to consider things like this...
I am thinking of asking a few questions about, is it considered a good thing or a civic duty to remind others that some people are being treated very poorly right now because of the policies that are oppressive and sexist and racist, and if so, what is being done about that? I mean when does it come up, is it not until the kids read Anne Frank's diary in school? I'm just kind of confused sometimes, I guess.
I wonder what should I do about a few things.
If I was thinking about getting either a recorder, which I did play when I was younger, and "Green Sleeves" was fun to play on that one, or a flute, which I didn't ever really play, but I wanted to; however, I had to play the clarinet, and I also thought I might get a little string instrument that's not too expensive, like a ukulele, but then somebody who felt guided to help said "piano," and I said, I can't afford a piano and don't have enough space for one, and my mom played piano but I just sort of banged around on it and never got proficient at it, and then she suggested a keyboard, and I realized my grandma was always letting me play on a keyboard when I went to visit her in the summer, also today I walked by someone in the alley and he was playing on a keyboard...
Oh, but another thing is, the nice person who was guided by the "piano" suggestion also is spiritual and not particularly into politics and she recommended being like that, but then she had to leave my company for a while, and when she came back, she mentioned that her husband had been trying to talk to her about politics and I wondered if maybe the whole "don't want talk about the politics" thing is different for some people like for instance her husband, and maybe also for me; could it be?
Thinking about seeing more wildflowers and lavender farms soon, too.
"Discover The Prettiest Lavender Farms Around Los Angeles"
https://secretlosangeles.com/lavender-farms-los-angeles/
"Wildflower Hotline April 24 report"
https://theodorepayne.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/2026_4-24-WFH.pdf
I think I'm arranging a very enriching life for myself today.
I had a fun walk, and I liked taking my pictures. I did some exercise and I'm either going to clean or paint when I get home. I'm going to listen to some more music because it's fun when you know more of the songs that the artist might play at their live musical event. I do still feel somewhat guilty that I'm not technically earning any money at the moment, but I don't think the universe thinks I'm that bad of a person for not taking home a paycheck, and nobody's guilt tripping me about it.
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸
I almost forgot that I have to finish reading this book, so that's getting pushed up as the priority.
The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography by Deborah Levy | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36820477-the-cost-of-living
Huh, never had heard of this book before.
"....Lol Stein"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/280.The_Ravishing_of_Lol_Stein
Getting a little distracted...
"The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein, by Marguerite Duras (Anne-Marie Stretter #1)"
https://kansasbooks.blogspot.com/2024/07/el-arrebato-de-lol-v-stein-de.html?m=1
On account of patriarchical cults, churches, schools, governments, etc.
It feels like the lightbulb head guy lives inside of many women's and men's psyches. (Or so I thought to myself when I watched it this time.)
Garbage - "Push It"
Anyways, just a random thought to inform future creative choices.
Can you imagine discovering that there's been abuse in your family and having the older adults actually be really f****** adult about it instead of totally dropping the ball.
It's kind of like when you went ballroom dancing as a young person, and an old man dropped you on the floor and didn't say sorry about it, but the observant older women told you he was very bad to have done that, even as you tried to insist you were fine.
Be more like an observant well-aged person who insists on better treatment for fellow human beings as you make your journey in life.
Cute player 🎹😻🎶
Cat on piano keys 💖
"This is probably the most important video you will see..."
drapollo
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
At least words don't actually float in front of your face like this.
Gratitude!
"Women survive the apocalypse"
valmerza
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXclCn-AKNV/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The 'perfect' PCOS meal plan"
thepcosmentor and novum.pcos
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXdDwQYj0kp/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
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