Caroline 🟧

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

On our way to leave our hearts at the altar 💕

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

@Macys WORST customer service experience! NEVER purchase online furniture from them!! I have not been able to process a refund in 2.5 months. Each representative goes in circles without any resolution. No words for the level of frustration!! 🤬

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

Our biggest blessing this year 🧡

[Brianna Alatorre @BriannaAlatorre]

Couldn’t be more thankful this year. 🦃

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

@slava__bobrov @carlosgalatorre Looks just like your circuit boards. 😅

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

@BBCWorld @BriannaAlatorre Deja vu?

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

@BriannaAlatorre Cute 🥰

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

@BriannaAlatorre @FlyFrontier @erastourticks Done

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

“Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home yesterday. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”

“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice;

I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.”

She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.”

And with a smile, she said: “Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less, & enjoy every moment.

Photograph by Karsten Thormaehlen

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

Happy Half Year Anniversary! Wishing you a lifetime full of love and blessings. 🤍 #SanMigueldeallende

[U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General]

NEW: Today, I released a Surgeon General's Advisory on the epidemic of loneliness and isolation facing our country, the destructive impacts it has on our collective health, and the extraordinary healing power of our relationships. https://t.co/P9RnZkLr6G #Connect2Heal 1/8

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

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[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

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[HuffPost @HuffPost]

In our "death-phobic" society, few of us make the effort to prepare for death — but the ability to do so is a gift that no one should turn away. https://t.co/XXW9vnnVqa

[TIME @TIME]

The gunman who killed five people and wounded eight others in a mass shooting in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, legally purchased the AR-15 assault rifle used in the shooting six days earlier, according to police https://t.co/clUZPd0Kol

[Lauren Book @LeaderBookFL]

Florida is on a roll today… banning abortions & signing permitless concealed carry into law.

Guns are now less regulated than women’s bodies — and it’s easier to get a gun than to receive health care.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

My piece on Trump's indictment. I'm playing the world's smallest violin for MAGA's grievance. Instead, let's focus on Trump's victims for once and the rule of law. Hope you can read and share. https://t.co/ZuUvKe0XgW

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Tim Burchett has taken $39,360 from the gun lobby. That's what he sold out the lives of children for.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I know I'm supposed to tweet all day about today’s school shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville. With three kids and three adults shot and killed.

Just like I was supposed to write about the 11 other school shootings this year alone.

But f*ck it. I refuse.

We all know damn well who's to blame. You know it's the NRA. You know it's Republicans who are blocking sane gun reform.

At best, they ignore these murders. At worst, they LOVE them — because talk of gun reform will come up, and that INCREASES gun sales.

Either way, blood is on their hands. And the rest of us are filled with rage.

It's always the same. Every. Single. Time. And it must change.

WTF more is there to say?

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

@BriannaAlatorre 😭❤️

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

You know, every time I hear someone suggest raising the Social Security retirement age, I think: there’s someone who didn’t work construction all their life. Who didn’t carry little kids around as a preschool teacher. Who didn’t help patients in and out of beds as a nurse.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Imagine that one of these beautiful children - all shot to death last night at Michigan State University - belonged to you.

As long as there are guns everywhere, our children aren’t safe anywhere.

Don’t sit on the sidelines. We need every voice and vote. Text ACT to 644-33

[Caroline 🟧 @RN_Alatorre]

Serendipity 💫

[Erica Wenger @Erica_Wenger]

A once-in-a-lifetime experience happened to my twin sister today & I thought you all may find it pretty breathtaking & beautiful too! 🫶