caroline✨

for every sunset there is a tequila sunrise | umd alum | doctor of physical therapy | she/her

[caroline✨ @CareOh_____]

tbt to last year when snapchat did the little look back at your year story and it said “there’s no place like home” and snapchat thought that i LIVED at rj bentley’s filling station

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[Rockefeller @passtherocke]

Maybe she's at the Super 8 motel off I-95 with Hunter Biden as friends

[caroline✨ @CareOh_____]

get @HunterBiden on love island

[leisha @leisha1196]

Sorry for reposting so much hunter biden content he’s unironically the funniest person alive and I don’t have a lot going on in my life right now

[sarah @sarah_frags]

this app could be single handedly destroying my mental health and i would never fucking uninstall it because every few days The Transcendental Post will appear and for a brief fleeting moment our souls are freed from samsara as we gaze upon it in awe

[caroline✨ @CareOh_____]

and if I say @HunterBiden is hot? then what?

[ObtainerOfRareAntiquities @ObtainerOf]

Margaritaville is everywhere for those with eyes to see it

[fluttershy @hwrtyed]

i heard too many sounds at once and now im a bitch

[ash ⚔︎ @ashl3af]

watching reality tv is deeper and more anthropological when i do it

[Real Bravoholic @RealBravoholic]

need to quit my job so i can fully focus on the real housewives of rhode island

[caroline✨ @CareOh_____]

@Andy My question is for Colton - given your history of stalking, why did you say you were going to hold Lisa captive? (Caroline from Maryland)

[Meredith Marks @MeredithMarks0]

My only regret is that we weren’t bumping that… MM caviar!!! 💖💖 xxxx

[caroline✨ @CareOh_____]

no 🫶🏼

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Today is Forgive an Ex Day.

[violet 🧠🐀 @daintysloth]

off 2 Tylenol getting a little tizzy with it

[𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙠𝙚 @Arealmfngl]

"on the rocks" is a very cunty way to ask for ice tbh

[caroline✨ @CareOh_____]

same people praising NFL players for posting about yesterday’s events are the ones who told people like Kaepernick to not bring politics into football…interesting

[eli @rpfscholar]

‘twas the night before 9/11