Wondering While Wandering

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[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Sharing this with care.

Because the case is active, I won’t be discussing details publicly while it moves through the legal process.

Still here. Still in the fight.

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#thegreyspace #oklahomacity #okla #oklahoma

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

@Amothersanthem Praying with you right now.

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

I said, “I will see you later” when you left last December for rest.
It is too cruel to have to say “Goodbye.”

I love you, my boy.
My Leo. My Leonard. #lebronjames

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

LeBron James 🐾

My smelly, sheddy, needy, anxious Leonard,
Who is also my brave, soulful, dapper, lovable Dude.

Adventures and smiles across so many miles.
You gave unending love without ever asking back.

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Calm and stoic until a hand reached out with love,
Then suddenly your stubborn determination for pets shined through.

Our protector with the biggest heart.
Rattlesnake slayer.
Bird, bunny, boy, and cattle best buddy.

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

The first time 🐾 | #lebronedit #lebronjames #edit #memories #thegreyspace

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will ferrell and paul mccartney on snl tonight i am CHEERING and HOOTING and HOLLERING

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Admittedly, I often complain about Oklahoma with commitment and consistency.

But then we get skies like this and I become unbearably proud to be from here again. #okwx #oklahomaskies

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Not for the faint of heart.
Open to the curious.

For those who find themselves here—welcome inside.

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#ThePeoplesArtist #TheGreySpace #ArtIsEverywhere #EmergingArtist #CheersForFears

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Page 3 — If you feel compelled to share or tag your local representatives, it would mean a lot.

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

I can be loud. I can be measured.

I can be angry. I can advocate clearly.

I can be exhausted — and still show up.

This & That can coexist.

This open letter is one side of that fight — imperfect, intimate, and written from the middle of survival. Yesterday’s fire was another.

The Grey Space is where conflicting realities live side by side — and where I keep fighting anyway.

#Oklahoma #AccessMatters #DisabilityAdvocacy #thegreyspace

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Senator Lankford,

I reached out your office this morning from The Grey Space. A place of systemic failures, where health & care don’t exist.

That is not MY #Oklahoma.

Please have someone respond.

Respectfully,
A Constituent Still in the Fight 🥊

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Page 2 — con’t

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Looking for my Okies 👀

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Senator Lankford,

I reached out your office this morning from The Grey Space. A place of systemic failures, where health & care don’t exist.

That is not MY #Oklahoma.

Please have someone respond.

Respectfully,
A Constituent Still in the Fight 🥊

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

Senator Lankford,

I reached out your office this morning from The Grey Space. A place of systemic failures, where health & care don’t exist.

That is not MY #Oklahoma.

Please have someone respond.

Respectfully,
A Constituent Still in the Fight 🥊

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

She is ME. And I plan to be on the sidelines cheering for my fellow runners until I can race again. God willing & illnesses be damned.

Watch for me & my new bestie, Mariah Chairy 🦽

#runtoremember #runforrona #okc

[Enes Kanter FREEDOM @EnesFreedom]

To my Oklahoma family;
this piece comes straight from the heart.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and feel what I felt.
Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it.

I came to @okcthunder to play basketball. I left carrying 168 lives.

When I was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, I was thinking about basketball, nothing more.

I didn’t know that before I ever stepped on the court, this place would show me something that would stay with me far longer than any game.

Like any player, my mind was on the game. A new team, a new city, a new opportunity. I expected the usual routine when I landed in Oklahoma City. Physicals, practices, meetings, and a jersey waiting in a locker.

But before any of that, Sam Presti pulled me aside and told me there was somewhere we needed to go.

He didn’t explain much, and I didn’t think to ask. I was focused on the next step in my career.

What I didn’t understand was that, before I could represent the place I was about to play for, I needed to understand it.

So instead of heading to the facility, he took me to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

I walked in without knowing what I was about to see, and within minutes, everything slowed down.

There are 168 chairs at the memorial, each one representing a life lost on April 19, 1995. They are arranged in quiet rows, each engraved with a name, each standing where a person once stood in that building. Then you notice something that is impossible to process the first time you see it. Some of the chairs are smaller.

They belong to children.

There is no speech that prepares you for that, no headline that captures it. You simply stand there, and the silence carries a kind of weight that is hard to describe but impossible to ignore.

As you walk through the memorial, you pass between two gates marked 9:01 and 9:03. At first, they seem like simple numbers, but then you understand what they hold. One marks the last minute before the attack. The other marks the first minute after. And in between those two gates is 9:02, the moment when everything changed.

That minute does not feel like history when you are standing there. It feels present.

The reflecting pool stretches across what used to be a city street, its surface calm and still. When you look into it, you do not just see water. You see yourself standing in a place where unimaginable loss occurred, and for a moment, everything else in your life becomes quieter.

Nearby stands the Survivor Tree, an American elm that was damaged in the blast but endured. It is not untouched. Its scars are part of what it represents. But it is still standing, and in that, it carries a kind of strength that does not need to be explained.

We did not speak much while we were inside. It did not feel like a place for conversation. Some places ask for words. This one asks for reflection.

When we stepped outside, Sam Presti looked me in the eye and said, “This is what this state has been through.”

Then he said something I will never forget.

“Every time you step on that court, you are not just playing in front of fans. You are playing for a state that carries this with it. Give them everything you have. They deserve that.”

In that moment, basketball felt different.

Not smaller, but clearer.

Because what I had just seen was not only about what was lost. It was about what remained. A state that had experienced unimaginable pain and still chose to come together, to rebuild, and to move forward without losing its humanity.

From that day on, every time I stepped on the court, I carried that with me.

On the nights when I was tired, when I was hurt, when I was dealing with challenges that felt heavy in the moment, I would think about those chairs, about that minute, about the people behind those names. And I was reminded that what I was going through did not compare to what this state had endured.
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[William A. Wallace, Ph.D. @WilliamWallace]

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[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

THIS is my Oklahoma. 🌾

[Lane Brown @lanebrown_3]

Hero Principal Kirk Moore—who tackled a school shooter at Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma is crowned prom king!

This man deserves a raise! Hero.

[Wondering While Wandering @_whilewondering]

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