The Epstein files are so bad that they gave us a war in the Middle East, $5 gas, hantavirus outbreak, and aliens just to keep us distracted from it
Let that sink in.
“I wanted to tell this to all the deer and hermit crabs in the world: “yesterday is over, tomorrow is yet to come, today is yet unknown. Let’s live today well. Thank you and I love you.”
If your husband’s name is Seth and he lives in Oak View, CA and drives a white ford truck you should know that he just got hit on by a woman at the gas station while he was filling up his tank and when she asked for his number he said, and I quote:
“My wife is waiting for me at home, at the home I built for us and our 4 kids… I don’t mean to be rude but I’ve got no use for your phone number.” And when I tell you the grin I gave that man, and the grin that woman gave that man, oof! Seth’s wife, you chose well. 😘
~ thewriterjess (threads)
My older brother missed my graduation.
No call. No message. Nothing.
Everyone kept asking, “Where is he?” and I just kept smiling, as if it didn’t matter, but it did.
That night, I muted his contact.
Three days later, there was a knock on our door.
He stood there tired, unshaven, holding a small wrapped box.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I couldn’t leave the site. If I didn’t finish that job, they wouldn’t pay me and I needed the money for this.”
Inside the box was a simple wristwatch.
“I wanted you to have something that reminds you. Your time is just starting.”
I didn’t know whether to cry or feel guilty.
Sometimes, people don’t show up the way we expect them to.
But it doesn’t mean they didn’t care.
UK officially approves lifetime smoking ban for anyone born after 2008.
Anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 will never be legally allowed to buy tobacco in their lifetime.
For nearly seven years, Melina Salazar was the only waitress at a Texas diner willing to serve grumpy 89-year-old WWII veteran Walter "Buck" Swords.
He complained constantly, never smiled or tipped, and drove others away—but Melina always greeted him with patience and kindness.
When Walter suddenly stopped coming in, Melina wondered what happened. Then she received a call from his lawyer: he had passed away and left her $50,000 cash plus his 2000 Buick in his will.
The note revealed her consistent warmth had meant the world to him.
A quiet reminder that kindness, even to the difficult, can change lives.