A thread on staying warm from a chronically ill Appalachian who grew up without central heat:
It's fucking cold right now. As we all cope with new levels of cold (for our areas), I thought I'd put together some safety tips for folks, esp for any newly disabled out there.
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Back in June, I help my mom clean out her pool shed. There's a strand of old twinkle lights with plastic flamingos. "Throw them out," she says. "They don't work." But I see that the flamingos came off easily, so I start to pull them off. "I can do something with these."
When your brother sends you a sunset photo from New Zealand and you send a sunrise photo from Scotland and you realise you’re looking at two sides of the same sun from opposite ends of the world.