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So....is "more interesting" a good thing? I could say that this has been an interesting week, but not an exceptionally good week. There are not enough hours in a day lately, and not enough fun in the hours, and there have been too many disappointments and a lack of motivation ....
Well, a new week begins tomorrow...and maybe it will be "more interesting." And I can only hope that that will be a good thing!
Happy Sliders Sunday
Okay..I was joking...photos I do on boring rainy sunday afternoons...
Der Sonntag Nachmittag war gruselig...es änderte sich immer nur die Intensität des Regens...da habe ich mir einen Glückskekstext gebastelt und mal ein Stillleben fotografiert 😉
For a while, you can’t quite believe this thing has happened. The absolute horror of it was something there were no words for. It seemed utterly impossible, like a natural disaster that lasts for multiple years that was somehow chosen again purposefully or like a whole country choosing an abuser and giving him ultimate power over all of us.
I didn’t know if I was ever going to even post a photo again. I didn’t sleep on the night of the election and I still had to go to work the next day. I have to be stronger than I actually am. I have to at least pretend in a way that might garner an Oscar performance as the main protagonist in the ongoing story of my life. Because, I feel like I am falling apart. The first student I saw on Wednesday morning was a fifth grader who I know was very hopeful Kamala would win. I couldn’t speak because I was so emotional but gave her a hug instead. Now, she’s growing up in a world where she will have no body autonomy. It is so hard to process the election when you are in front of others and have to function as if the world is still in a full state of rotation.
I took two Ibuprofen PM on Wednesday night so that I could fall asleep and, on Thursday, when I initially woke up, it was like my brain was in a bit of a fog and forgot all about what happened. As if, maybe it was all just a passing night terror. And then, it hit me all over again and it was somehow even worse that day. Like, when you find yourself distracted by something beautiful and then you quickly remember the overall reality right now that you are faced with. I managed to put my clothes on and then started weeping into my coffee before biking to work.
I feel sorry for my students the most. For the past few yeas, I have felt so terrible about climate change in the world and how it is changing and now we have someone in office who will do far more damage in this and other respects. His first plans are to abolish the Department of Education and the FDA. Environmental protections will fall by the wayside. Medicare will be privatized. Money for people with disabilities will be cut or eliminated and birth control will either be eliminated or very expensive and hard to get depending on where you live. Forget about human rights for those who are transitioning genders or who are nonbinary. He is of a limited mind and feels strongly that there are only two genders in existence (despite many centuries across the world of multiple genders). He plans on even deporting the citizens who may have voted for him. These are his actual plans in writing and he controls all three branches of our government *and* has declared he now has a mandate. So, I really don’t feel I am over-reacting. In fact, I was told I was over-reacting the first time he was in office and that Roe v. Wade would never be overturned. So, I guess maybe my fears are pretty realistic. I also want to be clear that I will not entertain any right wing, pro-Trump fascist comments on here. If you are in that category, your viewpoints are harmful to people I care about and now you are the ones in power. When you have respect for others, that means you don’t wish for policies that do extreme damage to their lives and vote for politicians to act out all of your fears, hatred, and ignorance. If you voted for Trump, I already know what your opinions are and they are responsible for destroying my county. We’ve let a group of famous billionaires (we all knew enough about to be cautious) join forces to define policies that will control us and I doubt the price of groceries will go down any time, either.
I’m going to try to write a little bit each day on my life experiences from now on. I don’t expect others to care or read it. If you do, that’s ok. If you don’t, you’re busy. Some days, it might be more about a film I’ve watched, a book I’m reading, a dream I’ve had or what music I have been listening to and how that is affecting me. Other days, it might just be a poem. There might be days I am just too devastated to lift my head up and navigate an unwieldy language around incomprehensible things. I have been encouraged by someone in my family to figure out a way to fly under the radar so to speak in terms of my strong opinions. This is the opposite of that and I carry this forward with a sense of anxiety yet also human responsibility. I have been so depressed I am not sure there is anything left in this world worth living for but I am definitely not going to live out whatever time I have left being silent.
Note: the above title is from a Mission of Burma song that you can listen to here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvU5XEJmn0A
The lyrics seem very relevant:
genius.com/Mission-of-burma-fame-and-fortune-lyrics
The fortune cookie saying was from one of my favorite restaurants in Chicago called Yummy Yummy in Lakeview. The restaurant has a Vegetarian menu and many delicious options and is not as expensive as so many others these days.
***All words and photos are copyrighted**
I am grateful (and sometimes scared) that my destiny is designed by me and not left to fortune cookies.
“It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”
~Anthony Robbins
For the 30 days gratitude group .
i've made this picture for my psychiatric series. it depicts logorrhea.
in psychology, logorrhea is a communication disorder, expressed by excessive wordiness with minor or sometimes incoherent talkativeness.
logorrhea is sometimes classified as a mental illness, resulting in a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders.
276/365
Duh.
those fortune cookies are so smart. and logical too.
not really feelin a picture today, the roomates are having a party tonight so we all know what that means....better get sleep now.
my last words were "try and be respectful" yeah right, they're asswipes and dont care....oh yeah and above breaking my futon they've stolen my laundry basket too.
edit i bit the bullet and drove the 4 hours home...i just can't take a full weekend of that...might just come home every weekend...i at least enjoy it here. and cleaned my fingernail....awkwardly dirty for some reason....gotta love print!
Approximately 3 billion fortune cookies made each year around the world. The vast majority of them for consumption in the United States but they are served in many Chinese restaurants in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom. Rumours that fortune cookies were invented in China are seen as false. The exact origin of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century. Who knows for sure!
I was just delighted to find a really good Chinese Restaurant/Take Away locally. Fortunate for me!
yeah so basically i got asked to homecoming with a fortune cookie, how cute is that? very.
explore #25
An older shot repurposed to use this fortune so I don't have to carry it all the way to some grand canyon... and jump across it :)
(done in the style of sadalit, although she does them better)