Alli Courtemanche🐾💙🤍🏈

Mom & wife & badass cancer warrior 💪Dog lover🐾Football fanatic 🏈 Former radio host🎤#VoteBlue💙

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Kait Devir @DevirKaitlin]

New York or Nowhere. 📸 photos by me

[Cuyahoga Falls Rotary @CuyFallsRotary]

Happy Father’s Day from the Rotary Club of Cuyahoga Falls! #rotaty #cuyahogafalls #happyfathersday

[NBA @NBA]

KNICKS FANS AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE 🤯

POV: You're on a bus in the Knicks Championship Parade!

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[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

In the 250th year anniversary of USA the @WhiteHouse and surroundings looks so terrible…is so sad to see…

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

it’s wild how much this looks like a photo from the 70s, in a way that has nothing to do with the quality of the image

[Cleveland Magazine @ClevelandMag]

The Cleveland Museum of Art is hosting its annual Solstice Party tonight, commemorating the longest day of the year ☀️

[Anne Lamott Quotes @AnneLamottQuote]

“When it comes to grieving, the culture lies—you really do not get over the biggest losses, you don’t pass through grief in any organized way, and it takes years and infinitely more tears than people want to allot you.” ~@ANNELAMOTT

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

June palindrome: Did you know we're inside a 10-day stretch of palindrome dates?! That means every date reads the same backward as it does forward! 📆

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Therapist: You said you were disappointed with life & how the world operates. What were your expectations?
Me:

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

Please baby. Just vote Republican one more time. It'll be different with me I promise

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here are Italian PM Meloni's remarks about Trump, translated to English:

"So certain things deserve an immediate response. Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly stunned.

I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies. It's not the first time this has happened. After all, I can only say it's a shame he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders with whom instead he proves to be much more accommodating.

But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg. "

[Matt Maasdam 🇺🇸 @MattMaasdam]

President Obama was the kind of President you want to see in the White House: smart, steady, honorable, and he led with kindness. He’s a good husband, dad, and role model for our country.

One thing that always stood out to me was his magical combination of being both ultra-competitive and really easygoing. It allowed him to surf the waves of politics, and it taught me a lot about leadership. (He also loved playing with my oldest son when he was just a baby!)

It was a tremendous honor to have his trust to carry the nuclear codes and to be by his side to handle emergencies for the country.

It’s incredible to see his legacy celebrated - I can’t wait to visit the new library!

[Alli Courtemanche🐾💙🤍🏈 @AlliCourt]

@MJMcKean He’s from Youngstown Ohio and was involved in the Jim Traficant bribery mess in 2002! Welcome to Ohio politics 🤣

[Alli Courtemanche🐾💙🤍🏈 @AlliCourt]

@SLCLunk Welcome to OHIO politics my guy 🤣
We are a shitshow 🤣

[Alli Courtemanche🐾💙🤍🏈 @AlliCourt]

@GeorgeVClark Right⁉️⁉️ Tried to describe it in the past & people don’t believe it 😅I’m dyin 🤣‼️

[Alli Courtemanche🐾💙🤍🏈 @AlliCourt]

@JamesTate121 @JudyCol29411986 He’s from Youngstown Ohio annnd was involved in Jim Traficant’s bribery conviction mess in 2002 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

[ᏦᏋᏋᏦ® @KikiF_7]

Dear England, We just wanted to make you aware; We have officially adopted the Scots. They are family now. We will be in touch to negotiate your visitation rights.

Signed, The Americans.
🦅🇺🇸💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🫶 #Scotland #America🇺🇸

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The $1.7 million no-bid contract to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool went to a company ultimately owned by Trump donor John J. Cafaro, who previously pleaded guilty in separate federal cases involving bribery and campaign finance violations. The company's name? Greenwater Services.

[Alli Courtemanche🐾💙🤍🏈 @AlliCourt]

@Angry_Staffer He’s from Youngstown OHIO & was involved in the Jim Traficant bribery scandal back in 2002 😅Straight up ordered from central casting criminal FFS🤣