Pardon me for yelling, but THIS!!!!!

@feloneouscat This is such fucking bullshit.. how the hell is a person supposed to fit three in-person visits with a OB-GYN within a space of one to three weeks (assuming they knew they were pregnant before week 7)????

Be kind to yourself.

Looking to the future for happiness is but a mirage—Life is happening now.
~ Anoir Ou-Chad

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@Graci I know this feeling. 😖 I hope you feel better soon.

Justin Pearson and Justin Jones are going to be leaders for the next generation. Good for them!

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish. … The trouble is you won’t fight. You’ve given up. But there’s something just as inevitable as death. And that’s life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That’s the same power within you — if you’ll only have the courage and the will to use it.
~ Limelight (1952)

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Foo Fighters are coming to play locally and one person said he paid $220 for 2 lawn seats. Another person commented on Twitter he paid $1200 USD for four tickets.

AM I the only one who thinks prices are crazy? It would have to be Bach coming back from the dead for me to pay over $100.

A friend once told me, if he can buy the deep catalogue for less than the ticket price, he won't go to a show.

I still won't pay over $100 and believe me, I've been to many awesome shows.

@fugitive247 The crazy thing is that here, to qualify for income restriction housing, households must earn either less than 50% or 60% of the area median income. To qualify for an apt, a single person can't make more than $39,000. It's like they know that$18.75/hr is still not enough to afford a regular apartment. And yet so many businesses pay less than that.

There seems to be a lot of doom and gloom in the world. Yes, it is heavy stuff and a lot of people we love can and will be affected. However, I urge you to try to be a beacon of light, if not for yourself, then for another who may truly need you to help them find hope or goodness in this world.. Be shiny, be bright. Be powerful.

South Hampton Roads has a housing crisis.

The area includes the cities of Suffolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach in Virginia

With a metro population nearly 1.2 million on the southside, how much housing do we need?

From January through March, McCormick told WAVY News there were 811 evictions in Norfolk.

Today, ForKids Housing specialists found just 60 units available for rent under $1,000 a month in ALL of the Southside cities.

https://www.wavy.com/video/as-richmond-declares-housing-crisis-what-will-hampton-roads-do/

Or is it the case that no one ever truly gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now at this minute, in millions of hearts, in bodies carrying on the burden of existence, trying to smile, through tears for fleeting, passing moments here and there—when they can forget what happened to them, maybe even for a whole hours at a time? Maybe that’s what it is to live.
~ Koethi Zan, The Never List

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Actor Jeremy Pope sharing wisdom about the highs and lows of life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlqYW9DY5pY

@Saorsa Likewise... I am here for you any time you may have need. 🤗

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@Dane That's a lovely way to look at it, thank you. 💟

@Flibitz I wish you grace and luck. 🤗

Started to deep dive into healing childhood trauma that was recently triggered. I thought I had put it all behind me and now realize my personality is a hodge-podge of survival techniques. Yay me! But what I didn't expect was the self-reticence and dismissive feelings leading to avoidance of entering into the fray of memories.

I have to really be in the mood to work on it even as I know it is the best thing for me. I really hate the struggle.

Remember the six-year-old student shooting his teacher? The mother has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanor recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger the child.

@phase Agree!!! That's why on every soc med account I use, I eventually default into, as @killingfloorman calls me, a hippie at heart. I just want to put goodness and love into the world.