HK🇭🇰lady

USA born, Hong Kong bred. can survive on coffee and Italian red. Founder of Talos Foundation, bringing awareness to neurodiversity

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@JackyLinNews Heroes!

[Aaron Busch @tripperhead]

T10 Dancing Man ftw!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@nytimes @WSJ @SCMPNews @Airbnb the animal print pants they left are funny but your attempt to ignore this issue is not. Do right by your hosts.

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@Airbnb @bchesky: we had our 1st guests at my Sicilian villa. They left used prophylactics with their DNA, drug paraphernalia, bottles, heaps of trash and destroyed property. They also left animal print pants. It’s been 3 days and I keep getting the runaround. Any tips? Thx.

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

It’s Thursday. The guests who destroyed my home left Sunday. They left used condoms, drugs and drug paraphernalia on my property. They trashed my home, destroyed my property. You’ve had the case since Monday and you keep trying to deep six the issue. @nytimes @WSJ @SCMPNews.

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@MagicJohnson You two are adorable. Enjoy your trip!

[David Heath @davidhth]

Powerful lecture from Jackie Goldberg of the Los Angeles school board on protests against a children’s book with one sentence about families with two moms or dads. She says this is personal for her and really lets loose at the end.

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Charlotte, I couldn’t agree more.

Women lose thousands of dollars each year, and hundreds of thousands over a lifetime, because of gender and racial wage gaps.

I’m committed to building an economy where my daughters have the same rights and opportunities as my sons.

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@MulhollandLynne @zpurton @HKJC_Racing The most pampered horses in the world! Love it!

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@HKStatto @tripperhead @rthk_enews He’s a good looking man without that mask

[Debora Robertson 🦀 @lickedspoon]

Agnès Lassalle was a teacher, fatally stabbed by a pupil in her school. She loved to dance. As her coffin left the church, the man dancing so beautifully on his own is her partner. Then, their friends join in. 💔🖤

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@POTUS Hero!

[Stacy Cay @stacycay]

Jon Stewart: “What’s the leading cause of death among children in this country? And I’m gonna give you a hint: it’s not drag show readings”

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@tripperhead @cathaypacific No pilots

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@BarryKeoghan @coolyer Congrats and so much love!

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

Tip your server. Return your shopping cart. Pick up a piece of trash. Hold the door for the person behind you. Let someone into your lane. Small acts can have a ripple effect. That's how we change the world.⠀⠀

[HK🇭🇰lady @hkmarys]

@MulhollandLynne I’d probably stay by his side too, rescue or not 🔥🔥🔥

[Scott Bateman MBE @scottiebateman]

Jesus…this has really got to me. @SouthwestAir thanks for looking after them. #WePilots