Empathy without boundaries enables manipulation to stay “polite”

I have succulents growing under 12 hour lamps. Every evening they turn off one by one.

It feels like ghost me echoing from the past each time it happens.

“Thieves who have robbed private individuals spend their lives in prison and chains, and public thieves in gold and purple”

latin: [Fures privatorum furtorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt, fures publici in auro atque in purpura]

Cato the Elder, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae XI, 18, 18

Differentiation 101: How To Stay In Love Without Losing Yourself YouTube video by Heidi Priebe

“Differentiation requires us to risk loss. Whereas being undifferentiated is a very reliable loss avoidance strategy.”

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At min 45:00

“I’d like to be hit in the face with a pickle”

"It wasn't any of that. Your mistake was staying for so long."

Wicked: For Good The Soundtrack - Wonderful (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Republic Records

In a bit of a genre mixup, the Wizard and Glinda offer Elphaba the one ring.

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I replaced a mailbox today.

Not my mailbox (that needs it). A neighbors mailbox fell over and is too old to do it themselves.

Why is it easier to help others before helping yourself?

Cleaning up the kinds of writing mistakes that AI generates requires either godlike proofreading or technical knowledge at a doctorate level.

Echi, grapto, and vivium succulents in a terracotta plant

Echi succulent with googlie eyes

Life blessings are discovered in the smallest things.

I get into work and it’s not the happy Friday I had planned. Unprompted and freshly scheduled meetings and document revision.

I think meetings are a huge waste of time. I don’t know what’s a better replacement but they feel kinda like square wheels.

Works done now though. Happy weekend!

It’s Friday!

“The tendency is to presume that your wants are superior or some law of nature”

“When you allow your heart to shatter, you actually can make it more flexible and adaptable to future love.”

26.2 Miles 4 hr 27 min.

“It’s a deep and pervasive desire to love and be loved.”

-Pam

Lot of fun racing in costume this evening.

I think there are two ways to develop pride in yourself, one destructive and another healthy.

You can put your head in the sand and ignore your faults and solely focus on how great you are.

You can recognize your faults mixed with your strengths and then work on improving yourself.

Freedom isn’t free.

#Divorce

Yo daring to hope has me feeling crazy!

Hatin bitches clog my medulla

Tacos al pastor on corn tortillas with fried pineapple and a root beer float.

Happy Friday

“And the winds that blow remind me of what has been, and what can never be.” -A Lighthouse Tale

When your relationship includes mind games and abusive control both of you are stuck inside genuinely juvenile issues.

Not only is it draining, it’s robbing you of maturity and growth. There are people out there who don’t play these games. You deserve the space to become the best you.

“I bet that I’d be allergic to the demogorgon” -E

#strangerthings

3.8 miles on Katy trail along the banks of the Missouri.

Hoping for a better future feels so good even when I can sense the hope is also maybe hopeless.

Today can be okay, and tomorrow can be better. Let’s not sabotage it with hopelessness even if turns out hopeless.

Chewy Chex mix, outback w Gma, funnel cakes, Twix, mint klondikes, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, pb & Nutella.

“Maryland has nice breezes. St Louis does not”

“What if I lived here with you? Would you let me homeschool?”

“I love having my own room and my own space”

“Can I cross off the countdown?”

“I wish I was a little bit taller”

“It’s because I love you”

“It’s my chocolate!” (Bent over laughing)