@fwsodiq It's not about what you get. It's your character that gave without expectation of receiving that is pure unconditional love which will always appreciate all the ways in which it is returned.
America should have a universal job guarantee. We have so much work to do as a country. We should have centers that I can show up to at 7am with my ID and get assigned work for the day. Trash clean up, food pantry distribution I mean the possibilities are endless
learn to be alone. eat alone, sleep alone, vibe alone, heal alone. be so confident that you can bloom without opinions and approvals. and if you ever doubt yourself, always remember who you were and how far you've come.
@a_mokosh@DragDollCo You read that but not his books or heard him speak enough to absorb his message of love. He speaks masterfully of what those experiences taught him and how they helped him succeed to become the Superstar that he is. Troubles befall many of us, but that does not equal troubled.
The science of fetal microchimerism should have broken the internet by now.
It hasn’t.
When I read about a research I was so curious to know what’s actually happening.
Fetal cells — carrying the child’s own DNA — cross into the mother’s bloodstream during pregnancy and never fully leave. They embed into her organs. Her heart muscle. Her brain tissue.
Researchers have found a child’s living cells inside mothers in their 90s, from pregnancies six decades old. The child left the womb. The cells didn’t.
And they don’t just sit there. They migrate toward damage. Women with heart injuries show fetal cells concentrated at the wound site. Women with thyroid disease show their children’s cells inside the affected tissue.
The body that built the child gets tended to, in return, by the child’s own cells. Nobody designed this consciously. Evolution quietly built a repair system out of the mother-child bond itself.
The brain side of this is equally staggering. Pregnancy triggers gray matter reorganization — a structural rewiring that sharpens threat detection, deepens empathy, fundamentally alters how a mother processes the world. These changes persist for years after birth.
Possibly permanently. A mother’s nervous system doesn’t return to its factory settings. It was updated by the experience of carrying another person, and that update sticks.
The part worth sitting with longest — women who experienced pregnancy loss carry fetal cells too. The cellular merging doesn’t require a birth. It doesn’t require years of raising someone. Those cells remain regardless of what happened after. A mother grieving a child she never brought home is grieving someone biologically still present inside her. The world consistently underestimates that grief. The science says we have no business doing that.
Mothers always knew the connection didn’t end at birth.
Turns out it doesn’t end at the cellular level either.
major gag occurred.. rosalía arrived, served insane vocals and choreo, looked gorgeous, orchestra behind her, switched the genre and shook the british tea tables https://t.co/b8XcGWpaC9
The Lumbee Tribe has finally been officially recognized by Congress and they're set to receive the full federal benefits that come with that recognition.
This is a milestone more than a century in the making. I co-sponsored the Lumbee Fairness Act when I served in Congress and I thank the bipartisan coalition that got this over the finish line.
@feyiszn Loneliness isn't being alone; it's being with someone who requires you to translate your soul into a simpler language. True intimacy is when your 'imagination' and 'worldviews' can dance without explaining the steps. Anything less is just company, not connection
If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.
@silverpebble As someone who has lived with depression for many years, I think this is a really cool idea. Love the way you assembled the flowers. I hope it lifts soon for you. 💚