https://enviromet.my/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Aviation-Windsock_Millard-Towers_01-1-jpg-webp.webp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hePRA9yVdQE

What is old will become new again.

I step into the food hall, where I see a single vendor: Express Hibachi, which is an unusual name for a purveyor of personal pizzas and chicken Caesar salads. I skip the dining and head straight for the beverage stand. At this moment, I realize it’s all over: The only available lemonade is Minute Maid, sold by the plastic bottle. Feeling bamboozled and stupid for believing that I might find something beautiful at this garish perversion of an American tradition, I consider purchasing three $14 Cutwaters and passing out in the middle of the grass. But I already appear to be emanating a demonic energy to my fellow fairgoers, so I settle on a $5 water.

What could be more USian?

I wonder, if President Maduro is aware, and what he must be thinking, if he is.

I haven’t seen him in the news since he’s been kidnapped.

No we should be organizing on a much grander scale.

Because Democrats are on the same team as Republicans, and it’s not ours. And we’re just as ineffective, consumed by inertia.

Older people who have mobility issues sometimes prefer cities because markets, banks, care providers, other services can be close to home, it easily within ~5 minutes walking/golf cart distance.

My love to everyone participating in this thread. We are deserving, worthy, and worth it. And we recognize each other.

I suspect it’s more common than you may imagine. Fwiw, blood children are also treated this way.

https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/relationships/6-dysfunctional-family-roles-their-characteristics

Healing is available. It’s a slow, often painful, messy (non-linear process). But it’s doable. The alternative is stay sick, get sicker, perpetuate the cycle. You’re willing to talk about it a little, so it indicates the wounds haven’t yet calcified, and that’s a good sign. I encourage you to look into it, and various healing modalities.

https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/relationships/6-dysfunctional-family-roles-their-characteristics

https://www.simplepractice.com/resource/attachment-styles-worksheet/ (applies to all relationships)

https://ineffableliving.com/50-shadow-work-journal-prompts-that-go-deeper-than-surface-reflection/ (I would leave this until you’re stabilized and hitting plateaus).

In fact, I recommended starting with the basics, and exploring what help may be available to you until you stabilize*. But I have full faith in your capability to manage the journey.

Best to you, fellow traveler. 🫂

Divorced parents/nasty custody battle/switching school/lunching alone, for a time. It was a long time ago, and I’ve worked through it, for the most part. My original parents never did, I think, but moved on, nonetheless. I used to feel sad for them but the more I age, the more I realize it’s probably for the best. Can’t mend together what we refuse to face, individually.

Lies! I saw your sling bonding (and approve)! Have a good night/evening/day, my friend.

If we’re trauma bonding over here, count me in. Similar tale.

❤️

Likewise.

I find that imagination can help with focus sometimes.

I’ll hazard an uneducated guess that it’s related to memetics (in the Blackmore/Dawkins sense), and/or epigenetics (which may be built on the framework of memetics).

Just another tool to maybe help navigate the unpredictable

Maybe no maybe. 😉 And maybe the predictable.

The mind seems to be more motivated by vivid imagery than dull imagery.

Direct link https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/24/power-outage-in-france-as-europe-bakes-in-record-heat

Maggie Haberman could have made a little less by being a reporter-whistleblower-hero, but that would have been risking her skin and bank account balance, rather than growing that balance.