Patty Gunvalsen

Special Educator, lover of shoes & books, world's best aunt! I have a large capacity for useless knowledge that may benefit me one day!

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@EN0CX She’s knock kneed. There are also a lot of girls her age that for whatever reason think it’s cool to walk pigeon toed.

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@BulwarkOnline @SeanDuffyWI absolutely disgusting. One day she will grow up to know the meaning of that word and maybe then you’ll understand the impact of your words. Trash.

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@khloekardashian @X Saw a clip where you said you move like a pack of wolves and if you date one of you then you date everyone. 100% the same. And don’t come for one of us because we will destroy your life!

[Jay Kron @TownCenter2]

@CardsBaseball15 closer Jake Gunvelson, who earned a save by inducing five consecutive outs in the sixth and seventh innings, discusses Mentor's 5-4 home win over North Royalton

[MentorAthletics @MentorAthletics]

Our Tommy's Subs Players of the week. Jake Gunvalsen who had 4 strikeouts and the save in the last game and Aiden Shiels who won the 400 at Massillon relays and the 4x800 relay at Hoover Invite! Great Job Cards! #onceacard #thestandard

[Fr. Joshua J. Whitfield @frjoshTX]

As we pray for and then prepare to mourn the passing of the Holy Father, it will not be necessary to add a comment to every tweet or statement about his real or perceived failures. Just be a decent human being please.

[Lee Ann Jung, PhD @leeannjung]

🏀 For teachers who are basketball fans: Paraprofessionals should work like they are in "zone defense," not "man-to-man." More classroom support is great! Attaching an adult to a student all day, not so much. #LeadInclusion #EdLeaders #Teachers #UDL #TeacherTwitter

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Turn your phone upside down. You’ll thank me later…

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@JPeterlin re: your Code Red/vodka convo: if you went to college in the late 90s/early 2000s I’d bet you found Code Red at Taco Bell (fav meal of all broke college students). Instant addiction and a delightful mixer with vodka 😂

[Mentor Football @MentorRedline]

Thank you Jack for bringing communities together ❤️💛

[Mentor Schools @mentorschools]

Please keep our amazing student, Jack Sawyer, and his family, friends and loved-ones in your thoughts and prayers right now as Jack has entered an incredibly difficult time in his brave fight against cancer. Wear yellow on Thursday for JBSSTRONG Day to show our support for Jack.

[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”

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

Watching the @realmikefox documentary, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie and was happy to see how he is unapologetically himself. I feel like I try to hide my tremor (non-Parkinsons) too much but why? If people are bothered by it that's their problem! #differentisbeautiful

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@raeoflion @victimsuspect Just finished the documentary. Thank you!!! In 2008 I had a police Lt and prosecutor try to flip a SA and stalking case on me. It’s a wild story. But your documentary showed me I’m not alone in what I experienced.

[TED-Ed @TED_ED]

On #WorldBookDay, we wanted to know: what are the books kids love to dig into on their own?

31 great books for students, chosen by students: https://t.co/hLOcT7pSjL

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@LCCaptains @MHSSchulz peep the tramp stamp

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

This made me cry happy tears. So genuine! Short Round/Data is all grown up!

[Ken Jeong @kenjeong]

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[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

@knguyenpoetry Preach! Equity is more than what is focused on and that piece is ignored.

[Patty Gunvalsen @pattycate307]

Before today I didn’t know who @brandongraham55 was. After that story on the Fox pregame he’s now my favorite football player!