"You are not alone."
Helluva an email from @DeptVetAffairs telling veterans it's ok to be stressing out about the Taliban capture of Afghanistan. Email includes a LONG list of mental health services for veterans, to include the Veterans Crisis Line.
https://t.co/u6nImz3snr
"When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."
#InternationalWomensDay with Adrienne Rich https://t.co/6SlLgkLWwE
This is incredible. After publication of LIFTOFF, my agent sent a bottle of champagne via @Drizly. Was delivered locally via @Specs1962. I guess someone in the store recognized my name from Space City Weather and added this note. Unbelievably kind!
Wow have any of you ever heard of this Orwell guy?
I was just reading one of his books and it feels somewhat relevant to the current sociopolitical environment.
“True adulthood… is a difficult beauty, an intensely hard won glory, which commercial forces and cultural vapidity should not be permitted to deprive you of.”
Remembering Toni Morrison, who would have been 90 today, with her superb commencement address https://t.co/vu1DJ4YGrD
“I’m not a cat” is an instant classic.
But the underrated sleeper is, “I’m prepared to go forward with it.”
Having considered all the options my guy was completely resigned to being a cat for the remainder of the proceedings.
A friend of mine is not a big internet person and just signed up for his first social media account ever, on any platform. He texted me and was like “this is so fun!” Should I tell him?
@SheaSerrano I smiled rdg this and haven’t smiled much lately. Man, English teachers love nothing more than a non-reader finally loving a book 📚 ☺️☺️☺️🙌🏻❤️! It is so goddamn cool that YOU being yourself made not-reader-people go buy and then read a book. #goals
“If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
Montesquieu 300 years ago. We’re still working on this one.