Anna Orr

[Anna Orr @AGOODTiger]

I am sure someone needs to read this somewhere. You may need this kind of help or you may need to this kind of helper to someone else. Be kind , be helpful, some struggles are not obvious

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In the summer of 2007, Owen Wilson was one of the most recognizable faces in American comedy Wedding Crashers, Zoolander, The Royal Tenenbaums. He had the particular gift of making difficult things look effortless. That was the craft.

In August of that year, he was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. His statement, released the following day, was brief: "I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time."

He did not elaborate. He did not owe anyone an elaboration.

What happened next was not a dramatic Hollywood recovery arc. It was quieter than that, and more human, and more instructive precisely because of its quietness.

His older brother Andrew moved into his house.

Not for a day or a week for as long as it took. Every morning, Andrew got up when Owen got up. And every morning, before the day had a chance to become overwhelming, Andrew wrote out a small list of simple tasks. Just a few things. Just enough to make the day feel like something that could be navigated rather than endured.

Owen described it years later in a profile for Esquire not at length, not with drama, but with the particular gratitude of someone who knows exactly what a thing was worth. Andrew had stayed, rising with him each morning and writing those little schedules, so that life seemed at first manageable and then, at some point, a long time later, actually good.

Manageable. Then good. That is the actual shape of recovery not a single turning point, but a long sequence of mornings.

Owen has been open about living with depression for much of his life. He understands it the way people understand things they have carried for a long time not abstractly, but in the body, in the weight of certain days. Success doesn't protect against it. Fame doesn't treat it. It operates independently of all those things.

He described it once in terms that anyone who has been there will recognize: certain stretches of life feel like something relentless trying to wear you down. And when it's like that, you just have to hang on and wait for it to pass.

That is not the language of someone who has solved the problem. It is the language of someone who has learned to live alongside it, who has found, through experience, that the wave does eventually move through if you don't let it take you under.

He stepped back from his career to focus on healing. He dropped out of a film he had been set to appear in and spent the time doing the unglamorous, necessary work of recovery. He healed anyway.

He came back to work, to the collaborations he loved, to the particular version of himself he brought to every role. Midnight in Paris gave him one of his finest performances. Loki brought him to a new generation of audiences. The work carried a quality that had always been there but seemed deeper a knowledge behind the lightness, a man who had been somewhere difficult and chosen to keep going.

What Andrew did for his brother in those first months is not complicated to describe. He showed up. He stayed. He got up every morning and wrote out a small list of things to do, so that a day that might otherwise feel impossible felt instead like something with a shape.

That was the whole of it. And it was enough.

Recovery does not require a solution. It requires, first, the ability to get through today. And then tomorrow. And then, at some point a long time later, to find that things are actually good.

Hang on. Wait for it to pass. Let someone write the schedule for the day when you can't do it yourself.

It is simply a man who survived, and a brother who stayed, and the long ordinary work of mornings.

[Ross Dellenger @RossDellenger]

Nick Saban: "I think it is in the best interest of student-athletes to have regional conferences."

[Jen @jenteach13]

Your child's school has an assistant superintendent for curriculum, an assistant superintendent for instruction, a director of teaching and learning, and a coordinator of academic services. Your child's teacher has thirty-two kids and no copy paper. This is not a funding problem. It is a priority problem.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

if a doctor who graduated medical school says you need something, it should be illegal for someone sitting behind an insurance desk with absolutely zero medical training to deny you coverage...

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

What was with our society’s obsession with quicksand when we were kids? At the time I genuinely believed it was one of the world’s leading causes of death. Every birthday marked another 365 days of somehow avoiding quicksand,

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

In history class, I never understood how “advanced” civilizations could collapse. It just didn’t seem plausible.

Anyway, I’ve seen enough. I get it now.

[Claire Foley @clairefoleytv]

Shane Beamer also said Dabo Swinney facetimed him the other night from the George Strait concert

"I finally texted back 'sorry I missed you I'm busy recruiting hope y'all are enjoying George Strait'"

@GamecockFB | @wachfox

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT . Speaker phone is for when you are ALONE or have ear buds in. NOT in an airport waiting area. NOT in a restaurant . NOT on a train.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Time in Federal Government…

Alexander Hamilton: 5 years
George Washington: 8 years
Thomas Jefferson: 10 years
John Adams: 12 years

Bernie Sanders: 35 years
Nancy Pelosi: 39 years
Mitch McConnell: 41 years
Chuck Schumer: 45 years

It explains everything.

Founders vs Grifters

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Congress should be forced to retire at 70. Salaries should be $60K, the average American salary. They should pay a minimum of $300/month for healthcare with a $1,000 deductible, like we do.

To represent us, they should live like us.

[𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 @DrBradJohnson]

There should be a teacher on every school board…
and at every table where education decisions are made.
Because right now, we’re making policies for classrooms
without the people who actually live in them.
You wouldn’t design a hospital system without doctors.
You wouldn’t build a plane without pilots.
But in education…
we leave teachers out of the room

[Anna Orr @AGOODTiger]

Haha

[Sweet Momissa @sweetmomissa]

Kids these days will never know about dyeing their shoes to match their prom dress at Payless and that makes me sad.

[Amy Nixon @texasrunnerDFW]

I love watching movies from the 1980s and 1990s today because they remind you that America used to be normal

Nothing woke, no social media, nobody pumped up with botox and filler. People just looked normal, had normal conversations, and did normal things

[Lammie_Art @Lammie_Art01]

Me at Walmart: No one will ever know I bought this dress for $7.

Stranger: I love your dress.

Me: GIRL, IT WAS $7 AT WALMART AND IT HAS POCKETS

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Want to attract NEW teachers?
Want to retain CURRENT teachers?

•Make smaller class sizes happen

•Improve the response to student behavioral issues

•Increase planning time

•Improve salaries

•Let teachers teach!

[Ariel Epstein @ArielEpstein]

It still annoys me that most of our major sporting events are on "work nights."

Super Bowl, NCAA Men's Basketball & NCAA National Football Championships...

I know it's because of TV, but imagine it was on a Saturday night?!? Banger.

[Adrienne @YoAdrienne1968]

If Congress didn’t get paid during government shutdowns, they would stop this bullsh*t tactic immediately 🙄🙄

[Caitlin Huey-Burns @CHueyBurns]

I'm sorry, it is absolutely absurd that the United States Congress has left town on a two-week recess amid the longest Department of Homeland Security shutdown in history--during a peak travel season and a war. In what other industry is that abandonment of job duty acceptable?

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

The TSA meltdown is the Democrats fault!

The TSA meltdown is the Republicans fault!

No.

The TSA meltdown is the GOVERNMENT'S fault.

Their job, the one we pay and elect them for, is to keep the government running efficiently and serve the citizens.

Hold them ALL accountable.