Desert blooms
04.03.2026 01:15
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Desert blooms
Got a #dirty #rug? We live in the desert, sand and dust permeates our home. Take a throw rug and flip it upside down and #vacuum the bottom side. I fold it (in quarters if large) and look at the floor below. It's filthy! I sweep up the dust and vacuum the top and repeat until no dust remains.
Daffodils yellow and orange
Purple ready to bloom Purple Heart plant
Orange poppy
Purple gypsum phacelia
Desert blooms in February
Perimenopause is a 4-10 year period where your menstrual cycle slows and finally stops. Is this happening? Is that why I am angry? Or is it #trump?
It’s just really bad timing with the whole #downfall of #democracy and all. But that whole thing really pisses me off.
Could people please stop pretending that #Trump 's so-called #BoardofPeace is anything other than a #scam? The world is stupid enough without everyone agreeing that the Emperor's New Clothes are anything but a naked idiot out pretending to be something that he's not. #snake
When their movement had gained steam, taking the White House, dismantling the corrupt government, firing the workers that undermined the country’s strength. He’d happily voted for it, cheering on the rich men that eliminated the government bloat until little government remained. #shortstory #fiction
Dear World. #Americans are fighting back, but we need your help: Stop visiting the #UnitedStates (it gives money to our economy and it’s just not safe for you), Stop buying American whenever possible, #Protest US policy, and hear our voices
I wrote a letter to my partner. We have struggled through layoffs, medical school, parenting, MAGA relatives, and painful heartache. And in an effort to share my heart with the world, I am posting that letter here. Fair warning that is about trust, love, infidelity, rage, and painful heartache.
Maybe the only ones left to read this are another species wondering how the fuck our whole race offed ourselves so stupidly. #WashingtonPost #Democracy #ICE #Minneapolis #Revolution
Southwest tree and adobe house
Mom and child by southwest water
Southwest adobe home
Mother and child
#CarolynBunch #paintings #LasCruces Branigan Cultural Center
We are not important, but Our Cause is. It is Our privilege and Our duty to place Our bodies on the line to protect those in harm's way from those that aim to harm. Tomorrow is a day we can fight back with the #National_shutdown We start small. But we start. #resist #AlexPretti #ReneeGood #America
Is that what #artists and #writers mean by being muse-inspired? Maybe artists are reluctant to take credit for their work, as it feels too big for us to claim.
They want us to be afraid. They want us to back down. But that’s how they win. #Renee_Good and #Alex_Pretti
I tell my little babies that they can use their privilege. #children's_crusade #revolution #martyrs
Abolish ICE for Renee Good protest sign
Rejecting election results: this is fascism protest sign
Protest like it's 1938/9
Fuck Trump: If you like Trump fuck you too protest sign
#Anti-ICE #protest #January_20 #New_Mexico
In #elementary_school I had a #teacher that provided a safe space for me in a world that felt overwhelming and scary. I wrote her a letter about that #journey.
We can use our #white_privilege to stand between our #neighbors and #ICE. I’ve told my #children, ages six and nine, if they see ICE agents harassing someone that they should walk up to an ICE agent and say in their sweetest voice, “I’ve lost my mommy, can you help me find her?” #safety_meditation
#ICE has infiltrated #Minneapolis with thousands of untrained agents and one #murdered a mother today. Her son is now an orphan (his father died two years ago). She was an #American citizen and a community observer. "There but by the grace of god go I." I am her. She is me. #ReneeNicoleGood
I wrote a letter to my (male) partner. We are going through a rough patch, after years of rough patches. #boundaries, #family_life, #relationships, #children, #parenting, #generational_trauma
The day after a major #holiday (#Christmas) is an #exhausting kind of #wonderful (even for the non-religious)
#Trust is like a rag rug. Our America is like a tattered rag rug or quilt, stitched together from scraps of fabric from other times and places. Only #We_the_People can stitch back together what was broken, like an tattered relationship. #infidelity #MAGA #American_Dream #Trump #quilts #rag_rugs
A #holiday break with a partner that is going through #marijuana #withdrawal sucks. I have no answers here. Only worries.
But I am thankful for the #JimmyLai s of the world. I am proud of them. All of the people fighting against the swing towards #authoritarianism, those that the greater world may not know the name of, but are in need of their assistance regardless.
Table covered with pages of manuscript
Table need with pages ready to organize
Bowl of soup over manuscript spread across table
I finally printed out the latest version of my #novel on #generational_trauma
Our #language is #fluid. Words come in and out of favor and usage, they change meaning, sometimes whole universes. Trump calls women #stupid and a governor #retarded. Should we let go of those words? Or reclaim them?
Communicating with our partners as we parent is downright hard. But just remember that you would be considered an above average parent if you were being judged by the standards held for #fathers. #parenting #moms #children #in-laws #communication
I drink my wine, listen to my AI music, staring at my Christmas tree in the desert. We are not religious in any way. But I cling to what makes a calming sense in myself, the lights and faint music, the vegetarian Thanksgiving meal, the presents opened early. It is likely the calm before the storm.
Do you want the government tracking you?
Writing about Ruraltopia's effects on the US, I ask my partner if he believes that men and women should the same rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. And he says, yes, of course. Well congratulations, you’re a feminist then. #man_box #misogyny #feminism #rural_America #patriarchy #writing
#Nag is a code word men use to describe someone else asking them to do something that they should have been doing all along. #manchild #weaponized_incompetence