Sydney Raven @Sydney_Raven - Twitter Profile

I heard someone say, satan got adam and eve to fix their eyes on one tree when god had already given them an entire garden, think about that. The enemy didn't have to convince them that they had nothing. He just had to make them forget everything that they already had. And he still, till this day, uses the same strategy. He gets us to focus on relationships we don't have, the job that we don't have, the opportunity we don't have, the healing we haven't seen yet. Meanwhile, we are blind to the countless prayers god has already answered. Gratitude isn't pretending you don't want more, it's refusing to let what you don't have make you forget the goodness of god that's already surrounding you.

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Tallow Twins | Skincare

@Tallowtwins

15 days ago

Now THAT is an icon.

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Selene Mariposa

@Selene_Mariposa

17 days ago

DOLLY Eighty years old. One of twelve children in a cabin in the Smokies, born to people she called dirt poor, and she leaves behind a body of work almost nobody in American music can touch. I am not going to write a discography. Everybody knows the songs. I want to talk about the business, because Dolly Parton was the shrewdest operator Nashville ever produced and nobody noticed because she let them look at the wigs instead. She started her own publishing company in 1967. Nineteen sixty seven. A twenty one year old woman from Sevier County who understood, before almost anybody, that the money is not in singing the song. It is in owning it. Then Elvis Presley wanted to record I Will Always Love You. Colonel Parker's people said the standard arrangement, half the publishing. She said no. To Elvis. At the height of Elvis. She cried about it, and she said no, and she kept the rights. Twenty years later Whitney Houston recorded it for The Bodyguard and it became one of the biggest selling singles in the history of recorded music, and every cent of that songwriting money went to a woman who had held the line in a room where she was the only person without leverage. That is the whole story. She spent her career letting people underestimate her and then owning everything they wanted. She wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You in the same twenty four hours. That is not a career. That is a strike of lightning that hit twice in one day. She built a theme park in Appalachia that became the economic engine of her home county. She gave away a hundred and fifty million books through the Imagination Library because her father could not read. She wrote 9 to 5 on set, on the back of her acrylic nails, using them as a washboard for the rhythm. That percussion in the recording is her nails. She kept the take. She would not curse and would not make fun of Jesus, and she made a raunchier joke than anybody on the network. And she refused, her entire life, to tell you who she voted for. She said she had too many fans on both sides of the fence. In a country that has spent a decade sorting everybody into teams, one woman declined, and every single person still claimed her. She was married to Carl Dean for nearly sixty years. He paved roads, avoided cameras, and died last year. She wrote Jolene about a bank teller who flirted with him. Rest easy, Dolly. You were the smartest person in every room you ever walked into, and you let them think you were not, and you got everything. 🦋

Selene_Mariposa's tweet photo. DOLLY

Eighty years old. One of twelve children in a cabin in the Smokies, born to people she called dirt poor, and she leaves behind a body of work almost nobody in American music can touch.

I am not going to write a discography. Everybody knows the songs.

I want to talk about the business, because Dolly Parton was the shrewdest operator Nashville ever produced and nobody noticed because she let them look at the wigs instead.

She started her own publishing company in 1967. Nineteen sixty seven. A twenty one year old woman from Sevier County who understood, before almost anybody, that the money is not in singing the song. It is in owning it.

Then Elvis Presley wanted to record I Will Always Love You. Colonel Parker's people said the standard arrangement, half the publishing.

She said no.

To Elvis. At the height of Elvis.

She cried about it, and she said no, and she kept the rights.

Twenty years later Whitney Houston recorded it for The Bodyguard and it became one of the biggest selling singles in the history of recorded music, and every cent of that songwriting money went to a woman who had held the line in a room where she was the only person without leverage.

That is the whole story. She spent her career letting people underestimate her and then owning everything they wanted.

She wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You in the same twenty four hours. That is not a career. That is a strike of lightning that hit twice in one day.

She built a theme park in Appalachia that became the economic engine of her home county. She gave away a hundred and fifty million books through the Imagination Library because her father could not read.

She wrote 9 to 5 on set, on the back of her acrylic nails, using them as a washboard for the rhythm. That percussion in the recording is her nails. She kept the take.

She would not curse and would not make fun of Jesus, and she made a raunchier joke than anybody on the network.

And she refused, her entire life, to tell you who she voted for. She said she had too many fans on both sides of the fence.

In a country that has spent a decade sorting everybody into teams, one woman declined, and every single person still claimed her.

She was married to Carl Dean for nearly sixty years. He paved roads, avoided cameras, and died last year. She wrote Jolene about a bank teller who flirted with him.

Rest easy, Dolly.

You were the smartest person in every room you ever walked into, and you let them think you were not, and you got everything.

🦋

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Sydney Raven

@sydney_raven

19 days ago

@crustyupdates1 Melatonin ? That’s wild

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Out of Context Human Race

@NoContextHumans

21 days ago

I’ve never seen anything more accurate in my life

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The Internet Remains Undefeated

@WebUndefeated

24 days ago

I didn't think it could get worse, but I was proven wrong.😭

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ѕαмzi. 🏹 @_svmb

24 days ago

I have not been myself lately & I’ve been doing my best to reverse this for some time now.. So much going on & I’m just trying to stay afloat.

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@sydney_raven

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Sydney Raven

@sydney_raven

29 days ago

@TheTumboy @OVeezyy Nicki mimicked his cat . Because he loved his cat so much she wanted to resemble the cat. Hence the cat comments , staying by the door all day waiting. Waiting in the corners not looking in the mirrors etc

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King Roy

@RoyIsThaTruth

29 days ago

Solar eclipse. Meteor shower. New moon. Planetary alignment. If your nervous system feels like it's shedding three lifetimes... let it. The old timeline is done.