CottonBall

Army vet. Southerner, nature enthusiast. Alabama has my ❤️

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@abnheel @ashleevance @USAA They’re horrific. No driving record here and we were paying $280/month for our vehicles. Switched to geico after they raised our homeowners insurance $600/month and we went from $280/month to under $600 every six months.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@wayofftheres @JoshuaSteinman @USAA Same- had them for 12 years, never filed a claim, had to get a new roof due to a tornado. Insurance rose $600/month. Switched to geico.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@DudespostingWs I’m so serious- how do we get him here.

[Happy Captain @EODHappyCaptain]

Your goal in life as an American should be to love America as much as a German soccer fan.

[John Slaughter, Esq. @JSlaughterEsq]

A couple of Germans on a road trip have done more to inspire patriotism ahead of America’s 250th anniversary than the entirety of the U.S. government.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@shaunvlog_ Come to Alabama! Our state flag is also the St Andrews Cross, move to the northern part of the state and you’re in Appalachia.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@CapatanEl4662 Alabama USA, of Welsh and Irish descent.

[Faber @dfaber84]

Europeans after discovering Waffle House, BBQ, Military Flyovers and Pickup Trucks.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

A German visiting Auburn, Alabama, to watch Lionel Messi and Argentina play Iceland stopped at a Buc-ee's and ate brisket sandwiches on a stack of deer feeder corn.

A sentence never before uttered in all of human history.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@elonmusk Meanwhile, my husband and I are both laid off and were denied multiple times for food stamps. Luckily we both start work next week, but it's been a rough few months for our family.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@DefiantLs Meanwhile, my husband and I are both laid off and were denied multiple times for food stamps. Luckily we both start work next week, but it's been a rough few months for our family.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@BjorkBrodern @SweetDuckPod I feel like you’re only considering the portion of Americans that live in large cities, and not the millions that live in the sticks and run around in them for fun.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@samosaur Where are you at? There may be something for you in the Huntsville (AL) area

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@SinclairArt I am begging you to turn these into cross stitch and needlepoint patterns.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@_americanrose_ I love this.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

You could eat on this forever. I saw an old documentary of Appalachia from the 50s or 60s. They were asking an old woman about food access, especially during the depression, and how they had enough to eat. She said meat and vegetables were good but you had to have beans and cornmeal for cornbread. That if you didn’t have that, you’d be hurting…essentially starve.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@vbspurs My daughter is named after her.

[CottonBall @Meg_InfnlMachin]

@SGTWipper1Each Free Bird. Not necessarily American themed, aside from the obvious “freedom” correlation, but it deserves a place regardless.

[Trevor Lee @VoteTrevorLee]

One of the most beautiful scenes in cinema teaches one of life’s greatest lessons and on Mother’s Day, it hits especially deep.

In The Return of the King, Arwen, once immortal, is given a vision of her future son. Tears fill her eyes, not just from loss, but from the overwhelming clarity of what she will gain: the chance to hold that child in her arms, to love him, to raise him, to pour her entire being into his fleeting, precious life.

Her father warns her: “There is nothing for you here, only death.” Yet in that little boy’s eyes, she sees something brighter than eternity the vibrant, mortal miracle of motherhood. So she makes the choice. She lays down her elven immortality, embraces the Gift of Men, and accepts aging, goodbye, and eventual loss… all so she can become a mother.

Arwen didn’t just choose Aragorn. She chose motherhood. She traded endless twilight for the brightness of one mortal lifetime filled with love, laughter, scraped knees, bedtime stories, and the wild, irreplaceable joy of watching her child grow. In a world fading for the Elves, she reached for the warmth of human family instead.

This Mother’s Day, may we remember the quiet courage of every mother who has done something similar who has surrendered pieces of herself sleep, freedom, dreams, even parts of her own identity so that new life could bloom. True love, especially a mother’s love, often means choosing the finite so that something eternal can be born through it.
Thank you to every mother who said yes to the beautiful burden of raising the next generation. Your sacrifice is never unseen. Your legacy lives in the eyes of your children.
Happy Mother’s Day. 💐