@Blue_Skyesr_here

I love the excitement in these posts. :) You will be home to greet the mountains and the birds, the flowers and the trees, soon soon soon! ❤️🤗

@thewebrecluse

😅 I think that might not be your mouse anymore!

@MHS_Jenkins

This extremist group put out a crowdfunded children's book this summer, for kids 2-6, called Aron and Lebanon, which teaches their kids to long for Lebanon and also that it's dangerous right now because they haven't reclaimed it *yet*. This settler group went out on a cruise ship to watch the bombing in Gaza with delight, after hashing out how they'd apportion the land.

A far-right coalition gov't enables this, so US citizens fear similar at home for good reason. We never learn.

My contribution to 🇨🇦 Thanksgiving this year came yesterday, when I wrote out a menu for a family member, along with a shopping list & order of prep tasks.

Did this involve making up three simple dessert recipes? Yes. And teaching her how to make gravy? Yes.

But the hilarious part was that, for all her worries about not having enough options for 20 guests, I learned that she draws the line at *vanilla* ice cream. A road too far, apparently!

🙃 In Colombia you just make a meal and people eat.

@CanisPundit

Oh, now that's a good idea! After I train mine, it's my body that's barking, not them. 🤔 Definitely need to remind them who's top dog.

No weight training in the park for an hilarious reason: a giant military/police event in the stadium. My equipment was surrounded by men in dress uniform, down to the swords. 😅 Ah well, good business for the tiendas, at least. One had to run an extra pot open-fire style, to keep hot water on site.

I'll restart at home instead. 👌🏻

@pendrag

Morning Pendrag!

#Colombia! Where even the rats are packing arepas 🫓. 😋

Back to weight training today? Yes please!

(Me two days from now, after my A and B routines: *shrieking muscles everywhere*)

Morning, 'Nauts! 💪🏻

@AskTheDevil

🫂 There is a serious mental wound that comes from having to cut someone out to protect the rest. It's an act of force we don't like to use, and it sits on us psychologically for a while after we have.

But the pain of such disruption is worse than not feeling anything over it at all.

Take good care of your unsettled heart today Luce. Go gentle with yourself, as with others adjusting to the change.

Holding people accountable can really hurt. It's also an important form of care. 🫂

@Jorro

You too, Jorro. Rest well and wake beautifully.

Tried to stay up long enough to finish reading this academic book for a review, but the sound of car wheels on wet highway asphalt, under the soft static of rain with rumbles of thunder in the distance, keeps calling me away from the page.

Time to return to the dream of the world.

Wake before dawn, and start (maybe) anew.

🕊️ Goodnight, CoSo.

@NiveusLepus

I have lost track of many mentions, but thank you for your replies to my history and theology queries!

I'd recently done a newsletter on one of the Sumerian gods whose worship dovetails with Biblical history, so it was lovely to see that pantheon discourse stood out for you in your studies. (If not surprising! 😉) And what a striking contrast with the 20th-century US tidbit, which shows how scattered our societies remain. 🤗

Thanks for taking the time, dear Bun!
Hope you're well.

@LiseL

Love this one too. :) Thanks for the representation. 💛

@tyghebright

LET THE WILD ROASTING BEGIN! 😋

@CanisPundit @Ms420

I read this with a Southern drawl. 😅

@JGSchaeffer

I love the idea of creating a whole other story concept from "The Color Potato"!

@LiseL

This is my faaaaaaavourite! 😍

Shut it down! Winner winner tofu dinner!

@Iresine

I WOULD READ THIS.