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That last line 🫠

Can we talk about the men who perform the loudest outrage about 🍇 culture online, while the people they've personally threatened are watching?

Because it's one of the most disorienting things to witness. How do you even process that? I didn’t even realize how unsafe I still felt about it until now.

Devastatingly beautiful 😭

Today's Headline And then one day, while I read aloud to my husband the news and felt the widening hole in my heart, he raised his hand to quiet me. I followed his gaze out the window to see in the yard a small fluffy thing with black and white eyespots on its head. A northern pygmy owl beside our door, stout body slightly smaller than my fist. It turned its neck a full half circle to look at me with bright yellow eyes. In an instant, I shifted from disgust with the world to awe. Awe for this fierce bespeckled miracle, this wonder of feather and beak and claw, this small being in the grass looking back at me as if to say, Here is also the news. How surprising the world can be. How quickly, when I let it, amazement overwrites my fear and makes of the hole in my heart a home. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

#poetry #writingcommunity
#nationalpoetrymonth #poem

I learned your absence the way you learn a language you will never speak. Slowly, then fluently, then without thinking. I waited for the letter that would tell me you saw me— not as something to set down, but as someone worth the ink, worth the stamp, worth the sending. Somewhere you are still sealing the envelope, pressing it closed with your thumb. I folded the silence instead, kept it in the drawer where your #letter would have lived. #vss365

…
I folded the silence instead,
kept it in the drawer
where your #letter would have lived.

#vss365

the possibilities
are not boundless
they never were

yet i thread
the symptoms together

the dreamer dreams

turns

breathes

here
is an endless ocean

here
are the mountains
that kiss the stars

here
are two lovers
fated to touch

subjective
inevitability

#UnchainedSymphonies

Post a picture of yourself as a doctor.

I was reading a great book today and it said something along the lines of, "it's okay to neglect your responsibilities if it saves your life because if you die the responsibilities are still there. You aren't."

Just wanted to share. Take care of yourself.

#booksky #mentalhealth

I wanted to hold the sun
but was afraid of being burnt.
So I watched from my window,
palms to the glass.

The moon was lovely too—
but she never warmed me
the way I knew the sun would have.

Had I only been brave enough to bask.

#poetrysky

An abstract drawing of a man at a table writing.

#vss365 #UnsentLetters

It’s strange how your #letters
can hold such intense feeling
long after you‘ve been gone.

Warm peanut butter cookies taste like everything is going to work out in the end, and the criss crosses are so satisfying to make. 🤗

Forever Wars help evil people to Avoid Accountability….

“Netanyahu Criminal Trial Will Resume After Iran Ceasefire—But He Wants To Delay Testimony"

One wants to delay his trial, one wants to deflect from Epstein. Neither cares about their country.

Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a neutron star. How dense it is, how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. How difficult it is to move then. How impossible to believe that anything could lift that weight. There are many reasons to treat each other with great tenderness. One is the sheer miracle that we are here together on a planet surrounded by dying stars. One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed.

“There are many reasons to treat each /other with great tenderness. One is /
the sheer miracle that we are here together / on a planet surrounded by dying stars. / One is that we cannot see what / anyone else has swallowed.”

The real story of smallpox vaccination begins not with Sarah Nelmes (the milkmaid in question), or Jenner, or James Phipps, or Benjamin Jesty but with Turkish folk practitioners of variolation, enslaved people like Onesimus, and Indian variolators.
There would be no vaccination without variolation.

not sure i would’ve gotten through this week emotionally without artemis ii

The self awareness people perform and the self awareness people actually practice are two very different things.

I think I’m finally making peace with that. 💕

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Probably your body weight tbh

three weeks until our first deity tea!

tea is brewing, clay is drying, and spots are filling up fast.

join us— the table was set for you.

The hypermobile joy of realizing your dominant shoulder has been partially dislocated for years. 🙃

Flyer for Whimsy & Iron’s first Deity Tea with Aphrodite

she who rose from the sea.

Aphrodite, our first Deity Tea.

an intimate gathering for love, magnetism, and the pull toward what you want.

tea, ritual, sweets, and a handmade talisman.

dress for your whimsy ✨

allevents.in/longview/deity-tea-aphrodite-a-devotional-gathering-tickets/80001916019168

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

I love serendipity! Ordered kids work gloves and received two similar looking, but very different gloves. Replacement sent, same thing…except the mismatched gloves coordinate so now we have two pairs with matching construction and leather weight and it is just so neat when things works out so well ☺️

Knee slapping good! 🤭

Damn drive safe tonight, folks! Portland cops are out in full force. Like completely blocking off the NB Washington Stark exit with at least a dozen and a half cars 🥴 and easily many more than that racing about in a ruckus.

emory - dirt (official video) YouTube video by emory

#AmListening #Emory

"Put my hands under the dirt
Pick out from my fingernails
I swore I could move the earth
I swore I could still believe in you"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9AN...

My first impression was of Brigid too, but she’s stunning nonetheless.😍

Shame on them. AI slop or plagiarism are the only legitimate reasons I could think of besides physical damage for returning any book.