Making people happy with my desserts. Lucky to live at the beach, love animals and kind folks. NEVER TRUMPER…PRO CHOICE to live and love, whoever you want.🏈🦅
@gggirl924 Earth shoes, we all had them in 1970. Went hand in hand with Earth Day, where we stood together in protest of the corporations spewing poisons in our air and water!
@NC_Governor@NCDOT I’m sitting here listening to the ocean roar and the wind howling on the OBX. I’ve been living here for 34 years and this never gets old, I just live in walking distance to the beach, so that’s a plus!
@pappybest I just had a melanoma removed on my upper chest, 5 inch incision along with a lymph node under my left arm. No bandages, they used liquid skin to cover the stitches. My results came in today and it’s negative for cancer! I’m just a little sore. 😬
@GrandpaHarris65 😆 never thought about Iran having one in my entire lifetime and I’m 72! I do hate spending $150+ a month on gas for my 2007 Toyota matrix 😩
Many thanks to Brian Krassenstein!
“The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch.
You spend your whole life hearing “greatest country on Earth,” then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason.
And then you come home.
You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they’re the fragile ones.
And somehow we’re all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal.
I don’t hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate.
I hate that we call basic things “radical.” Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Radical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political.
Meanwhile, the loudest “patriots” are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful.
Grateful for what? A flag doesn’t pay rent. A bald eagle doesn’t cover insulin. Fireworks don’t fix bridges. And chanting “USA” doesn’t make a broken system less broken.
America has incredible people. That’s the tragedy. The people are better than the system they’ve been forced to defend.
So no, I’m not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department.
Real patriotism isn’t pretending the country is perfect.
Real patriotism is being angry that it isn’t”
- Brian Krassenstein