"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse). Life becomes a lava lamp of memories of happier and sadder times, of what might have been, and of a fearful future, accompanied by the burbling sound of advancing time, of which one friend has almost run out, and of which I will too someday (supposedly)."
"She was very funny, brilliant, and highly educated, and turned out to be the only person I’ve ever known who is a worse know-it-all than my husband. I think she alone could have beaten him at Scrabble, and I’m glad she didn’t as this would have killed him, rendering him useless to me."
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This toot+thread has filled my music queue for a week
Perfect
Still digging this record
My son is in his first year of middle school and on the struggle bus big-time. He just got home and reported on a math grade, followed by:
"I'm going to drop out...I can just eat Pop-Tarts. I'll have a cold Pop-Tart for breakfast, a toasted Pop-Tart for lunch, and a BUTTERED Pop-Tart for dinner."
...which is funny, but also a gut-punch
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I shouted from the kitchen: "Do you want me to bring you this coffee?"
Wife shouted from the other room: "I'm coming out!"
I start playing "I'm coming out" on the stereo, first the original and then this cover.
(She never came out, she is stuck under cats.)
"What people do in response to violence is consolidate the myths they live by. This focuses emotion and fosters solidarity, but it also renders people susceptible to control by non-human forces, submission to which, in times of crisis, looks like virtue."