Your parents are getting older at 75 and they haven’t told you how scared they are.
They are not dying, or becoming a problem, or of being the reason you’re stressed, the reason your money is tight, the reason your patience runs out. They watch you build your life and they quietly pray they are not in the way of it.
That silence you mistake for peace, it isn’t always peace. Sometimes it’s a 70-year-old man swallowing his needs because he doesn’t want to be a burden to the child he suffered to raise, sometimes it’s a 68-year-old woman who once moved mountains for her family, now unable to move without help, smiling so you don’t worry.
They have already grieved the version of themselves that was strong, they did that alone, quietly, at night.
What they have left is you.
Not your money, not your success, you. Your voice on the phone, your presence in the room, the way you look at them like they still matter, like they are not just a responsibility to manage but a person to love.
One day there will be no one left to call you by the name they gave you, in the voice that first said it, no one who remembers who you were before the world got to you.
That day is coming, you don’t know when.
So before it arrives, go home, sit down, put the phone away, let them talk.
The chair will empty, make sure you left nothing unsaid.
Goodnight
REPORTER: ‘Pope Leo said yesterday, God does not listen to the prayer of those who wage war. Can you comment on that?’
LEAVITT: ‘Our nation was a nation founded 250 years ago almost on JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES’
I've ardently defended Erika Kirk from the ostensibly serious podcasters & media stars defaming her and baselessly implicating her in crimes.
But my feelings about the comedian Druski's mockery of Erika Kirk are more complex.
For years, I, and many others on the Right, defended edgy and wildly offensive comedy, like mocking trans people and even joking about horrible things like domestic violence, the Holocaust, and AIDS.
How can anyone on the Right really argue, in that context, that a comedian mocking a widow is somehow beyond the pale... without being totally hypocritical?
🚨 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S ORIGINAL LAST NAME WAS MILEIKOWSKY… HE WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL IN PHILADELPHIA — AND THE INTERNET IS MELTING DOWN OVER IT
Yes… really.
Before becoming Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu spent part of his teenage years living in the United States and graduated from Cheltenham High School just outside Philadelphia.
His father, historian Benzion Netanyahu (originally Mileikowsky), was teaching at American universities, including Cornell University and Dropsie College.
People are just now discovering this and are losing it.
Why does this feel like a detail that was quietly buried for decades?
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maybe listen twitter it so smart sound beautiful
OR MAYBE TWITTER IS FUKCING RETARDED