I love fake spring in Ohio.
I love fake spring in Ohio.
From the #quote book today: "Time is the longest distance between two places." - Tennessee Williams
That is drive-able, at least
From the #quote book today: "Time is the longest distance between two places." - Tennessee Williams
The long list is here!
I used to dress our kitty in a Cabbage Patch dress and sit him in a Strawberry Shortcake high chair
Rafa is my hero
Give me my hour back you goddamn animals
Jealous
"I stayed away from loss as if it was contagious because I knew nothing about loss yet but I knew that it hurts"
"We cremate my dad northeast of Houston. Saw him apart and set him atop an angry, determined burn pile on a floodplain. I donβt watch, but I can hear him go again and again."
A metaphor, and also not.
My internal dialogue is an unreliable narrator.
π§‘
Congrats, Hilary and Joyce!
"Perhaps her body wonβt need to keep score."
I hope you are safe, and keep going as best you can.
"My dad is a 1987 Casita travel trailer that gave up in rural nowhere. Sixteen feet long, round in the middle, he is hard to reach for, hard to find, and impossible to reconcile."
It's been 10 years since my dad died.
From the archives at @variantlit.bsky.social: variantlit.com/death-of-the...
Also, I hadn't heard that song in 25 years. 90s country was the best. I blame Shania Twain for ruining it.
There is SO MUCH early 90s in this photo.
Grumpy child "congrats nice happy for you" meme
Me scrolling posts from people at AWP right now
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
"What a privilege to preach, offer wisdom to the one who is still processing the chaos!" So true.
From the #quote book today: "Bless the daughter raised by a voice in her head." -Warsan Shire
I'm glad you lived. π§‘
really starting to understand why that old woman left it all behind to go live in a shoe
"the moments when the hush came. When no one spoke for weeks, and you were filled with half-empty mugs, half-filled pages of sums"
I love this POV so much
"Iβd never been so jealous of a cigarette in my life, so envious of ash, to glow from the touch of her lips, to fall at her feet and be completely consumed."
Rich with meaning and ash from @barlowadams.bsky.social
"16. Gather the weight of things not said.
17. Place that weight on the foot of his grave."