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I never thought I would write. I never thought I would lay myself down and open myself up to be seen. I never considered a life lasting disease. Or even a short one.

I wasn’t writing for you. I was writing for me, for healing.

But I gave a copy to my social worker of my poem, “ A Farewell To Breasts” who gave it to a nurse who gave it to a patient and in the small world of my hospital, it went viral.

Now I can’t stop trying to get through this, this, unexpected, unwanted journey. Fear not, we can find joy!

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Do you support Zelensky?

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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Waking up to Ukraine absolutely shredding Russian military and air force

Is amazing

Slava Ukrainii

Robert's avatar

This Supreme Court is one of the most political in history. Especially Thomas and Scalia. ACB seems to have grown a conscience to some extent and even Kavanaugh has disappointed MAGA somewhat. But this guy… Thomas.. yeah he’s as corrupt as they come. He doesn’t even try to hide it.

It’s about damn time. AOC is a hero. She’s one of the best out there, fighting daily against Trump’s fascist bullshit.

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hey! thank you very much to all my readers for making “it’s time to leave Joe Biden the fuck alone” my first post to receive ten thousand likes!

it’s time to leave Joe Biden the fuck alone

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Best mental reset I’ve learned:

If your mind is loud — Write.

If your mind is empty — Read.

If your mind is racing — Walk.

If your mind is tired — Sleep.

If your mind is sharp — Build.

Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.

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Sometimes I fantasize about disappearing.

Not dying.

Just logging off.

Getting a job no one cares about.

Growing tomatoes.

Writing poems in the margins of a notebook no one reads.

Not as a failure.

But as a kind of freedom.

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Am I right?

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Behind every strength you see is a God you don’t.

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Mama’s Little Helper Was a Barbiturate

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Nick Johnson posted an interesting Youtube video about the presidential campaign in PA. Apparently the Amish are finally mobilizing to vote in the November election. After a long tradition of deliberately staying away from politics and voting, many members of the Amish community are deciding to cast their votes, many for the first time.........for Donald Trump.

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No wonder, the Leftist Socialists hate independence of anyone. The Amish are an antithesis of the Leftist socialist dreams.

Stalin killed millions of Ukrainian farmers when they fought their family based farms being turned into communes. Later, the government allowed the individual farmers to have a small plot of land to grow their own crops, independent of the communes. It wasn’t long before the farmers started farmer’s markets in the towns. Not too much later, the plots out produced the communes. A story to tell your socialist supporter friends.

Yes, it's inevitable. The question is whether it will be under the tyranny of the International Bankers as in Marxism or an elected National Elite as in Fascism or National Socialism.

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I think we should do an annual televised Nerf Bat stadium beatdown for all interested policy-makers. Whoever is left standing gets to make the rules for the next 12 months. And gets as many hot dogs from the concessions stand as they please on the way out. About as fair as any other system.

IAN2364's avatar

No matter the "game", individuals will game the system.

As individuals, we just need to deal with the hand we are dealt, and game the system to the extent of our environment and abilities.