“Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?”
Graham Swift - Waterland, 1983.
Kim English - Morning Paper.
🚨🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: In a shocking expose, the New York Times has uncovered that Donald Trump has secretly spoken with Vladimir Putin as many as SEVEN times since leaving office.
The conversations coincided with Trump pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine.
TRUMP IS A TRAITOR!!!
Trump also secretly sent Putin COVID tests while he was in office, when they were hard to obtain.
Putin even asked Trump to keep it a secret.
There is no way Donald Trump should ever be allowed to occupy the White House again.
Due to Ron DeSantis’ failure to prepare for Hurricane Milton, @realDonaldTrump has opened ALL his golf courses including Mar-a-lago to corral and safeguard any Trump supporter’s livestock that need to be evacuated from the hurricane’s path. He’s also providing free hay and feed!
FLASHBACK
1993-In congressional testimony, Donald Trump said that Native casino owners didn't deserve special status because “they don’t look like Indians to me.”
“I loved my friend
He went away from me
There's nothing more to say
The poem ends,
Soft as it began-
I loved my friend.”
Langston Hughes
Kitty Lange Kielland - Evening Landscape from Stokkavanett, 1896.
9 Harsh Truths I wish I understood in my 20's:
1. Everyone is responsible for their choices and behavior. At the end of the day, it's always on us.
2. Quick fixes are popular because healing take time, new habits, and consistent commitment.
3. There might not be the one. Focusing on finding the perfect person takes away the time you could be learning how to self regulate and communicate.
4. We all self sabotage. We all have narcissistic traits. We all have self doubt. Welcome to being human.
5. People's opinions are mostly projections. You can learn from all feedback, but also know it's extremely bias. Nothing is personal.
6. Not everything needs to be fixed. The wisest people know how to sit with the pain and suffering people experience without saying or doing much of anything.
7. People pleasing is an attempt to control people's perception of us. Once you face that, you can finally start to let it go.
8. No one has a perfect life. Stop romanticizing the life of other people. We all carry things we don't talk about.
9. Your body doesn't just age because of genetics. It ages because of how it's cared for. Care for your body, it's your vessel for navigating life.
Which do you think is most important to learn in this life?
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“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore, 2002.
Isaac Ilyich Levitan - Before the Storm, 1890.
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 1897.
Vasily Polenov - Woman Walking on a Forest Trail, 1883.
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
J.B Priestly
Laurits Ring Andersen - At Breakfast with the Newspaper, 1898.
“We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?”
Judy Blume
Bill Perlmutter - Young girls dancing on the beach. Portugal, 1956.