"I've titled this one..."
thesweetfeminist
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbvkpsVERPo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Saturday, August 08, 2026
I think some people, including children, are being asked to grow a lot more quickly than others.
In spite of how much some immature adults are not wanting to grow very much or too quickly themselves.
I remember them talking about this movie when I was in college.
It had a way of charming some who saw it and also pissing people off.
"Life Is Beautiful" | Rotten Tomatoes
I don't think a hypnosis session about losing weight and making more money is going to fix this situation.
"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
"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/
What do you think Jesus would do?
"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/
I guess it feels like some people are surviving violent times as best as they can these days!
"I grew these flowers and made these biscuits"
thesweetfeminist
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbyXq5Vx69L/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"High note"
devandaily
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ5YYJIpqIB/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"This should concern every person watching"
thesidewalkschool2
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbyyYS1BDNn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I believe that is what I was paying when I first moved back to the East Coast.
"Edging my absolute breaking point"
heatherleighbefree
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbwi5IxpRn8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
When I lived in the house with all the male roommates and was working in a restaurant. And I subconsciously hid my Tori Amos CDs from myself for some reason, for a little while.
Just daydreaming again...
Perhaps a plethora of people could either order some food from a nice restaurant that they associate with their heritage or make something that reflects something about their heritage and bring it to a gathering where people could take turns talking about what they know about their ancestors who immigrated here! And they could bring other items, too, like show and tell. And it wouldn't even have to be heirlooms that were passed down. It could be like, they bought something in a special gift shop or something, like "this item spoke to me," and then they could explain why, but it would have to do with something about heritage and about their ancestors immigrating here, or about family stories that had been passed down or that sort of thing.
Dream...
Let's eat some of the food of your culture(s) and maybe enjoy music and talk about the stories you know about the people who you are from who came here.
Ima...🎶
"lyrics by my 3-year-old daughter"
_stephenspencer
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQ49aTdDShC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"@_stephenspencer puts out some bangers"
themilitaryyogi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaDV5dMgt7G/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
My right ovary area has been bothering me off and on for several hours.
"Peri irritation"
theperipals
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbtllveKwWA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Professor Prez's class is now"
prezmoymusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbmP0YhsG1z/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"@_stephenspencer puts out some bangers"
themilitaryyogi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaDV5dMgt7G/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Babies, babies, babies.
"I Wanna Be Adored"
pedalsteelnoah
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dana3pAx4e1/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"#mexicanamerican #happyhippie"
doggface208
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbjQMupSgOg/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Women & girls are human beings"
gwenlevymusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbyubzqqgFO/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
No seas too petty.
"Kiss of death for Avenal City council who overruled their recall -- as new mayor seizes total power"
Ay ay Y
"Heartbreaker" - The Rolling Stones - Los Angeles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MlgtbYGjzAc&si=oZIKj-Fkg27lJ-5A
Alabama Shakes - "Heartbreaker | Ukulele cover tutorial"
I have learned two chords!
And down down up up down up strumming.
Well, I guess I'll pluck on the library ukulele again for another day because the one I ordered has gotten delayed.
Qué piensas
"Why did I cry posting this.
Thank you to our allies"
flowerinspanish
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbyVAsNvLnm/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
My paperback arrived! Really good condition.
But I'm still going to finish listening to it on CD now.
"The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores by Diana Marcum" | Goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39975783-the-tenth-island
Good Christians; they're out there!
"Family of North Carolina pastor who suffered stroke in ICE custody finally allowed to visit him"
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/family-north-carolina-pastor-suffered-161924758.html
We laughed at this...
"In honor of Tasting History's Max Miller, let's remember another guy"
u/The BoyisBackinTown
I feel like I could be part of something good, you know.
I also feel open to living a much more financially improved lifestyle in a responsible and ethical manner.
Who knows it might make a difference, in a positive way.
There was a job counselor at one of the protests who was holding up a sign and offering to give people who had joined ICE better jobs. I'm not sure if they were better paying jobs, but they would definitely be better jobs.
Anyways, if some of the rich people wanted to help out the subservient ICE people who also got abused by their caretakers, and are taking it out on others in exchange for paychecks now...
Some of us have to get on airplanes to see our family members at some point in the future again.
"ICE agents cracking down at U.S. airports"
@CBS Evening News
She has friends who could tell her what kinds of songs all the truly great songwriters have written.
"Private prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climb"
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/08/nx-s1-5923881/geo-group-corecivic-immigration-detention
Do you know how fast your health could go downhill if you got put into a concentration camp?
My feet are messed up just because I started swimming this summer. I have an ointment. They don't have ointment in the concentration camp.
Back to the fun stuff!
"Heces" (Susana Baca)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gHqyXIECP8s&si=bPDhvIIfY-7cwjkr
"Enciéndete Candela" (Susana Baca)
Whoops, gotta pay attention to some relevant stuff again!
"Hi. We saw it."
"This Asshole Trump evicted a 74-year-old"
"#breakroomchronicles"
breakroom.chronicles
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVWWvH9kV91/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I think about this article"
Anyhoo, back to The Content that'll make it easier to work with Little Lord Fauntleroy's Mom...
Or wife. Whatever.
"Lew Wasserman: The Man Who Built Hollywood"
More Mine Valley Mindset? Lol!
If those Mine Valley Guys don't stop putting out such a plethora of superficial content about losing weight and making money...
Ugh. Gross!
It's so pathetic that some people who bullied me in this life would have married someone like me in another life just because I was born in a different body back then.
Looking forward to the next dream...
"On the days where it all feels like too much"
theshabbycreekcottage
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbvdtWJRwGM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Day 157. $113.3 billion"
wellesmusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DblJONjRtg8/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Reviewing some #history"
words_of_women
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbwvVqnROtM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Drink water that's clean and appreciate it.
My past life self who probably died in a concentration camp less than one hundred years ago and a few decades before Kent State ever happened is also super offended right now.
The Dandy Warhols - "Godless"
Survival skillz and learning to appreciate them.
"Elliott Smith's director..."
lizuninvited
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX491IEx7jA/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Only a black cat could slay a donut cone this hard"
afableofwhimsy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbuO-4jzHWo/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"New character unlocked"
breakroom.chronicles
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbvkQhBxxuW/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Gawd. I did not know that singer looked like that.
"Throwback Thursday: In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry"
@gawgia3
Ahem! Hydrate yourself.
No more Mrs. Nice Guy. Be on your guard. Be very vigilant. Be wary. You're a multiple lifetimes kind of a lesson, aren't you?
In these friendship-oriented times.
I've learned a lot about how useless romantic feelings are! Thank you for teaching me so much about that! When I say you, I probably am just implying that The Universe is a great teacher.
I also fed the cat and ate a chunk of watermelon.
I have, sadly, woken up more, because I had to. The story my friend told about how her grandfather went for a ride with Lucky Luciano and just went around to bars with him and his girlfriend and danced for the customers and then they brought him back to his mom a few hours later and she was furious and he was guilty but apparently the kid was unharmed. Well that was a nice story, wasn't it?
People need real friendship in these messed up times.
I fell asleep. Did not finish my mediocre wine. I did not go to bed drunk. I just woke up dehydrated and felt sick anyways. Now I'm drinking water.
I poured out the remnants of what was in the two glasses that I was sampling earlier.
Things are really messed up. I don't know what to say about it except for that.
Oh, but maybe pray to Jesus and Lord have mercy. These phrases exist for a reason.
You know what I cannot stand sometimes?
I cannot stand how 🙂 some performing oriented people are being lately.
Like, I am shocked at how smiley they are being. They're being so freaking smiley, the smiliness is actually offensive. I swear to God.
Get a life!
Friday, August 07, 2026
Hiccup.
When they were tried alone, the red wines appeared to be mediocre, but when you tried one and then the other, the contrast between the two really brought out the delightful qualities in both of them.
These scorched squashes will be wonderful tomorrow.
This was also fun. 🍷
I had a mediocre wine from France and then another mediocre wine from California, but they were two different kinds of reds, and I found out that when you open up two mediocre wines and then you go back and forth between sipping one and the other, they start to taste better, and it kind of feels like you're having a wine tasting!
I think it might be fun to change now 🎶
And use a funny exaggerated Southern accent!
Bye-bye Mr. Cult Leader Pie I most certainly do hope you kin get over your cult leader mentality issues and I surely do believe that some much more Marvelous and Musical Way over yonder is beckoning on the horizon...
Oh! 🔮❤️🩹😌
"Never skip a #hopecore"
officialsadbeige
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY7JcD0s2G0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"he crawled up himself"
tessbecket
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbta5sJuj1f/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I recorded this just three days after..."
alexthealien1111
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbrMZlAKTpC/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Yes no maybe crazy!
"Am I surprised that Morgan doesn't grasp..."
campbeasleywood
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWy-1_7kX-h/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Isn't there enough torture in the world already?
Expecting people to get it who clearly don't want to get it is just an exercise in self-torture.
I'm going to maybe go have an ice cream.
I'm hearing how the voice of person I'm living with is so good when he's listening to people and trying to help them, and there are hedge funds that buy up the newspapers and so many layoffs and budget cuts and there are forces that seem so monstrously uncaring and it's just...
Today I splurged on multiple types of ginger rail, ha-ha. I only opened one of them so far.
So what is the new normal? For some people, including some little people...
"We wait all winter for this"
bbrealty_mpls
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWmsX9bESU7/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Has anyone seen the 'save the children' crowd?"
50501movement
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6s6oaga4J/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Content is being created!
"been examining my relationship with my femininity"
raccoon_requiem
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbuHBWaTfPT/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"there👏are👏no👏limits👏"
damselsinthepress
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbs1C-fs73z/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"A brave attorney defends her clients"
defiancedispatch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbvpi_1vOv6/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Some bad stuff is happening...
"Three children were kidnapped by🧊"
a_daywillcome
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbu4f8Lhjgk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
The "be aware..." afternoon nap dream...
Someone came over who I thought I could be friends with in the dream, but he made it clear that he going to be immature about the topic of rape and make jokes in a very not healing kind of way, so I had to toss him out.
Sometimes it takes a long time for change to happen.
There are people who were traumatized and trained to be prejudiced against others years ago. And they were prejudiced recently. And they're still prejudiced today.
I think it's fun to notice this.
That there's songs you could listen to when you were younger and perhaps your younger ear was just kind of curious about what the songs meant and then you listen to them again as you're older, and they seem to have all these extra layers of possibilities.
Maybe she's back there again...
"Straight from Pico: An interview with the author of 'The Tenth Island'" - Portuguese American Journal
Shoot, that guy should have married himself a nice liberal white husband.
"Tearful Trump Voter Says He Feels ‘Totally Betrayed''"
Whose financial advisor didn't vote for Trump?
This is like the Gestapo???
"Tearful Trump Voter Says He Feels ‘Totally Betrayed''"
I have a feeling the majority of this nation's financial advisors did vote for him. Sigh.
Thursday, August 06, 2026
I finally made it back to listening to The Tenth Island while my hands are busy
"Nothing is as global as a California farm town."
~ Diana Marcum
"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 only copy I could find in any local library was the audiobook on CD. That's sad because she's from around here. I'm ordering the paperback because I have to have it now. She describes newspapers getting their staff cut! It's also got stuff about the culture of Armenians and Iranians in California in the chapter I am listening to, and descriptions of food, and it makes me want to go to Glendale and eat Armenian food again, which is where I ate that kind of good food when I eloped! She makes references to a friend / crush she refers to as Manly Author, who is this guy:
"Water, Land and Power - Mark Arax" - Farm To Table Talk
https://farmtotabletalk.com/water-land-and-power-mark-arax/
I kind of feel like I wanted to learn more about about Diana Marcum after I read this by Bonnie Hearn Hill
"I loved Diana Marcum. Despite her brilliance, she was uncertain about everything from what to cook for dinner to what to write next. Although accepted to a major university, she had gone to work for Winchell’s Donuts in her teens to save her younger brother from the foster care system after the deaths of her adoptive parents. Diana was the little sister I didn’t know I needed. She filled a hole in my life I didn’t know was there."
"You Know Me Now" — HerStry
This is more well known now than it used to be, so...
"Celebrationnationinc"
https://linktr.ee/Celebrationnationinc
"I want to take a moment"
celebrationnationorg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWj7ngyktP0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Today is Farmworker Appreciation Day"
celebrationnationorg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbtDLH9B7kF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
In backwards order of actual viewing...
"⚠️Kazoo solo⚠️"
djentthegod
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbg2Z06vlWd/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Oh Joel we're only called to be louder"
prezmoymusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXr6dtGD3O3/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Jesus has a side hustle"
prezmoymusic
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbuFCRpMrHQ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Summery 🎶 that filtrated in today and sticks around this evening.
"Whispering Grass" sung by The Ink Spots
retroradio5574
https://youtube.com/watch?v=M10Sn5frEjc&si=jTezfLAEmLgFKEFc
Blondie - "Atomic"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=O_WLw_0DFQQ&si=rRNb0p3ofhPsmHCi
Taylor Dayne - "I'll Be Your Shelter"
Well!
"NYC and Minneapolis, I'll see you soon."
palmertrolls
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbogbttMLFl/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Is this useful knowledge? Maybe?
Oh I just had a fun memory: when I was on the plane and I talked to the dad who was *supposedly car dealership owner* he asked me if I liked trap music and I said I don't know what is that and he said it was like the Harlem Shake.
"Harlem Shake (Original Army Edition)"
xoticmattr
Appreciate them!
"It's Farmworker Appreciation Day today"
flowerinspanish
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbtfH3bBPhZ/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Oh, I was thinking about this one when I was washing off chlorine in the shower.
And I also put a ukulele on a credit card today...It wasn't very expensive.
"Thanks for your patience! Part two is finally here #therain #oranjuicejones"
breakroom.chronicles
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbtvCq-Snw2/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Who gets what, exactly, out of all the permissibility?
"Just let that image sink in"
hathaway_findlay
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbrTf9Egt8P/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Survivor Story: Tammy Wallace..."
jaguarwright
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFyTyAyRolS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"You're gonna be fine."
the_side_quest_wizard
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da5KoxNt5DF/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Party on! Eldest daughters are older sisters. We'll take care of it.
Wow! I hope this kind stuff isn't still happening nowadays...
"It's hard to go back and read your teenage diaries"
hathaway_findlay
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbo49fepiGT/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Wow! I hope this kind stuff isn't still happening nowadays, considering how great and wise and articulate all the parents are being about what's happening to human rights for girls and women in this country. 😱
Anywow. You know what's more valuable, don't you?
"Time to listen to my own words."
endangerhood
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZffihTKuzG/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"PART 142"
thereal.tarajoon
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbTSp4riESD/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"GenX women are waking up"
hathaway_findlay
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DboyF4NATEM/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Bad dads, traumatic childhoods, and no therapy?
"Why do Latinos work for ICE?"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/ice-latino-border-agents
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to do some cleaning I go...
"#lunchladyenergy #gunsandroses"
breakroom.chronicles
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbYZgLiRXVs/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"S/o to my other nosy ass uncle"
djentthegod
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYYRf9Uh5SO/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"they actually make me sick"
lucaalexsongs
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dboq2-wB-k0/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Freaky dreams in the early morning, and now some things are better.
Anyways, I had a dream that some entertaining people were convincing each other to have fun, but they were locked up in their kidnapper's basement. It was actually very terrifying, and I could not ignore that.
This is a good thing to read!
"‘My mission has been accomplished’: how Susana Baca resurrected Afro-Peruvian music"| Music | The Guardian
It's another day! Recovery is nigh.
It's worth noticing how we really are not the same, although we may share some things which make us feel like we have stuff in common. Well, we speak a common language - English. That's a start.
Well, it's another day to accept hard truths!
Their nightmarish vanity is no joke, and they really do ruin things. It's like they've been kidnapped by other forces, and they don't seem to know it. I'm scared. It's survivable, but it's not happy. You must wonder what you're supposed to learn from this. Just like why would any child be put in an environment in which they're made to feel unsafe? Maybe a lot of adults are being controlled by things beyond themselves. Very scary stuff.
On account of getting in touch with another level of feelings.
Thinking about calling some people "high - masking" more.
I don't know. I guess some people might think that?
Do you think that focusing on the upheavals that are happening in society to others is like running away from your own death?
Perils of the assignment.
Sensitive people are dying. DYING. Meaning they are dying without their bodies actually perishing. They are emotionally breaking down and probably getting reincarnated later, but that doesn't seem matter much when they're dying, because the dying is the point. How can people be such fragile, death-oriented, emotionally collapsing creatures and then the next day appear "normal" to others...
Wednesday, August 05, 2026
Fortunately, a life afflicted by various traumas invariably gets silly again at some point.
"The invaluable CD binder..."
genxgina66
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZflrE2ju53/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"For the love of music"
genxgina66
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbA8gF2gb7_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"If you say so."
genxgina66
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dakwt6JBstS/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
Next chapter!
Because even watching the first part of the documentary about Lew Wasserman helped me get through the previous one!
"She is alone, divorced, employed inside the motion picture industry, and she knows that the job she has, secretary, isn't going to lead anywhere but that she doesn't particularly want it to. She likes movies fine, but she isn't obsessed or enthralled by them. Sometimes she wonders, as she picks up the telephone and catches the sound of a familiar voice ('Hold on one moment, Mr. Brynner, I'll connect you') whether they sound as strange to themselves, these people who buzz in her ear all day. It's not that they aren't friendly or polite, it's that even when they flirt, they seem mostly to be talking to themselves. Perhaps this is her quarrel with the movies, why she likes them less than literature: because they are like one-way glass, where fiction is a welcoming room, one that bursts into life the moment you step inside it."
Matthew Spektor
Page 60
"The Golden Hour"
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/216724291-the-golden-hour
I think "skilled self-abandonment" needs to end.
For a lot of reasons!
"There came a point..."
kathrynbisland
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaN4CHCPRz-/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"On TikTok this has 13.2 million views."
nicolewassilishin
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbqWUodPUdL/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"The silence from the pro-life crowd is deafening."
attorneygoldfinch
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbrF2kPo-J5/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
What does freedom even mean anyways?
I do feel, especially in these stressful times, that it's good to live with somebody who doesn't make me feel like I need to be a joiner of groups, and who also doesn't make me feel like I must think like him. That's what a lot of traditional husbands did in the past.
Maybe it feels too demanding for some people, but to others, it feels much more natural to consider multiple points of view.
There are so many people who have felt like outcasts of society on this Earth, and that can be a very painful feeling. So sometimes, when people are desperate not to feel like outcasts, they will join groups in order to feel a sense of belonging and security. But there are also some people who cannot in good conscience be the kinds of joiners of certain groups that others are. Or maybe it's better to say that they expect an experience of a society in which it's more acceptable to have deeper conversations and even disagreements. Are these kinds of people destined to suffer in utter loneliness and solitude all the time? I don't think so. I have wondered sometimes if in the United States our society suffers more from a lack of enthusiasm when it comes to having discussions about important topics that may include disagreements. But still, you can find pockets of humanity where people are willing to have the kinds of discussions that help us consider multiple points of view if you are interested, and if you look for them.
I wonder if something in nature believes in equity, emptiness, and balance in an environment.
In the summertime you can visit a park at sunset and feel closer to those qualities.
Tonight I got invited over to the house of a friend. She has a little kid and so he played while we talked. And instead of having dinner, I had lemon water and apples because it felt better to have that this evening.
And then there was a wonderful period of peace and quiet as the sun was going down.
I got to go put down my phone now.
"Happy Juneteenth"
beccaashmon
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZxjzSzg3hk/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Posting from TikTok"
swannydayounginn
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DawgS6zul0F/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"I ❤️ being white"
djentthegod
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXDQGF2AUIu/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
I can still hear ya sayin'...
It's fun to thump a long brush on a bed to this one.
"The Chain (2004 Remaster)"
Fleetwood Mac
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FhgFtXESdPk&si=M2sw0GPeKQwpQrpV
I don't know why that brush has a strap on the back of it. I took some pictures of strangers' places on my way back to my car because there was a kinda cozy quality to them.
This seems like it's kind of more chill content...
❤️Music!❤️
"#fleetwood mac
#cassette
#the chain"
the_cassette_guy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNepgFQMMBP/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Rainy evening"
ramos.havens
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dbo3BekC_wn/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
"Okay your turn"
flabulouslo
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbA9lVxO3yY/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
It might be fun to get together sometime and talk about formative childhood experiences.
I do believe that having a racist mom babysitter at a very young age and seeing how she was so cold towards the brown boy who was like my first "on a regular basis" friend who was a boy must have been a very formative experience in my life. Because I didn't have any brothers. But also, having some really nice babysitters affected me and my outlook, too.
Just seems like a strange way to lead a life.
There's a guy in this documentary who seemed like he kind of worshipped Wasserman, and he must have been so relieved to have someone tell him what to do all the time. Even how to dress.
"Lew Wasserman: The Man Who Built Hollywood"
After some physical pains went away today, I feel like I accomplished a good domestic task.
I just made a bunch of vegetables for a turkey burger bowl and ate it, but it was too many vegetables, so then I said "Do you want a turkey burger bowl? Because I made too many vegetables, and I could really quick put another turkey burger on the grill..." (It's a little grill. It just grills one patty at a time. It's for in kitchen use. It's George Foreman brand and I got it for a really good price at a discount store that's closed now.) And so now I'm providing healthy food for two people and not just one, and I feel like I was able to accomplish something!
After all, it's not like the tax dollars that are being misused have feelings about it. That's a human quality.
"Protest happening in the capital"
riseabovejusticemovement
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbqnLX6Mw0W/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==
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