Melissa de Assís Escobar

writer ✨ witch 🫀 🍃🤍📗novel “Cuando te Atrevas a Despertar”

[Mindset Machine  @mindsetmachine]

4 years of therapy in 1 minute

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Powerful words

[Wild Media @WildMediaOnly]

Protect this man at all costs.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Her “Your kidding me right now!” had me tearing up‼️😭

[Dr. God Abeg ooo @josh_uglyasf]

Dads deserve love too✊🏾✊🏾

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

"My name's Raymond. I'm 73. I work the parking lot at St. Joseph's Hospital. Minimum wage, orange vest, a whistle I barely use. Most people don't even look at me. I'm just the old man waving cars into spaces.
But I see everything.

Like the black sedan that circled the lot every morning at 6 a.m. for three weeks. Young man driving, grandmother in the passenger seat. Chemotherapy, I figured. He'd drop her at the entrance, then spend 20 minutes hunting for parking, missing her appointments.

One morning, I stopped him. "What time tomorrow?"
"6:15," he said, confused.
"Space A-7 will be empty. I'll save it."
He blinked. "You... you can do that?"
"I can now," I said.

Next morning, I stood in A-7, holding my ground as cars circled angrily. When his sedan pulled up, I moved. He rolled down his window, speechless. "Why?"
"Because she needs you in there with her," I said. "Not out here stressing."
He cried. Right there in the parking lot.

Word spread quietly. A father with a sick baby asked if I could help. A woman visiting her dying husband. I started arriving at 5 a.m., notebook in hand, tracking who needed what. Saved spots became sacred. People stopped honking. They waited. Because they knew someone else was fighting something bigger than traffic.
But here's what changed everything, A businessman in a Mercedes screamed at me one morning. "I'm not sick! I need that spot for a meeting!"

"Then walk," I said calmly. "That space is for someone whose hands are shaking too hard to grip a steering wheel."

He sped off, furious. But a woman behind him got out of her car and hugged me. "My son has leukemia," she sobbed. "Thank you for seeing us."

The hospital tried to stop me. "Liability issues," they said. But then families started writing letters. Dozens. "Raymond made the worst days bearable." "He gave us one less thing to break over."

Last month, they made it official. "Reserved Parking for Families in Crisis." Ten spots, marked with blue signs. And they asked me to manage it.

But the best part? A man I'd helped two years ago, his mother survived, came back. He's a carpenter. Built a small wooden box, mounted it by the reserved spaces. Inside? Prayer cards, tissues, breath mints, and a note,

"Take what you need. You're not alone. -Raymond & Friends"
People leave things now. Granola bars. Phone chargers. Yesterday, someone left a hand-knitted blanket.
I'm 73. I direct traffic in a hospital parking lot. But I've learned this: Healing doesn't just happen in operating rooms. Sometimes it starts in a parking space. When someone says, "I see your crisis. Let me carry this one small piece."

So pay attention. At the grocery checkout, the coffee line, wherever you are. Someone's drowning in the little things while fighting the big ones.

Hold a door. Save a spot. Carry the weight no one else sees.
It's not glamorous. But it's everything."

Let this story reach more hearts....

Credit: Mary Nelson

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Cartoons that aged well.

[cuteness overload @cutecattoX]

this is the most adorable video you’ll see on the internet today 🥰

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American compares a McDonald’s Big Mac from America vs a McDonald’s Big Mac from Japan, both left out for 30 days

This is criminal

“Someone needs to send this to Robert F Kennedy or Calley Means or Joe Rogan, someone, anyone, that gives a crap that can actually do something to start fixing our broken food system”

“This is the entire US food system.”

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

From Shenellica Bettencourt on FB. I hope her story inspires you, it is beautiful ❤️

20 years ago, my mother tried to force me into getting an abortion at 6 months pregnant.

She didn’t stop there, she nagged me until my son was 6 years old to give him up for adoption.
Told me over and over again how I ruined my life.

I was a senior in high school.
His father was incarcerated most of his life.
I had no real support system.
And instead of being lifted up, people like my own mother made the struggle even heavier.

But let me tell you something…
I THANK GOD I didn’t give in. 🙌🏽

Every tear, every sleepless night, every lonely moment, it all molded us.
It built us.

Against all odds… I raised a U.S. Marine. 🇺🇸

We don’t do weak. 💯💪🏽

[Sadie @Sadie_NC]

This is why we don't burn or disrespect the flag.
🇺🇸🥺

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Charlie was shot because he was honest.

America, we can’t keep doing this.

[Melissa de Assís Escobar @ColdSancocha]

Congratulations on your baby boy 👼🏻and, why not—-on the super duper early diagnosis of cancer…. It could be worse and I’m sure that you, with your proven Humor Resilience PHD will enjoy a very interesting first year as a happy mom. And give us a hell of a fun book soon . Felicidades Mami ✨🙏🏽💙🍼 praying for you. Start thinking of your next book’s title.

[Melissa de Assís Escobar @ColdSancocha]

@unlimited_ls Disgusting, evil humans. WTF

[Melissa de Assís Escobar @ColdSancocha]

@ElonMuskAOC Yes yes please!

[Melissa de Assís Escobar @ColdSancocha]

@JDVanceNewsX Yes please

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

The moment she realises is priceless ...

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

in Brazil, it’s a tradition to give the first slice of cake to the person you love the most🥹

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Geometric spider web in Australia

the web belongs to a spider in the species Paramatachia.

[Jere_Memez @Jere_Memez]

@elonmusk Let's be the generation...