charles 😭😭 this honestly will mean so much to her. and does to me too. thank you 💜 hope you and the family are well!

thank you 💜 they have good protections in place but every sunday night i just feel heavy with dread of what the pressure cooker of this administration is going to cause

bc the horrors are really happening to other people. so who am i to say im worried about a possibility.

but i just am. im afraid. and im angry. and i’m just exhausted.

and i don’t know where to put this heaviness i carry

this fear and anxiety.

my brother also works a job that could put him in the way. less directly than my mom. but not an absent threat.

i was unprepared for the visceral reaction to watching, in real time, the events i fear for my mom & brother

and in a world of endless horrors i also know living in the what ifs isn’t good for us.

but it’s my mom, ya know? and we watched a woman get shot this week for driving away.

and the other agency in our state that does the same work as her - had ICE outside their doors.

about what her being arrested and detained could look like. what she would do in the event a client needs protections.

and i am ENDLESSLY proud of her and the work she does. and i KNOW that im extremely privileged to have the parents i do. who did the work and unlearned the harms of conservatism

full article here:

the full piece is linked here: soliloquiesandsonnets.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...

this whole thread is so cool!! what a great idea. love that you listened to this one!

but Vincent Lima has been my top artist on spotify for 2 years, his writing is beautiful and gut wrenching and masterful storytelling. His voice also is in a very deep register that feels like hozier/bon iver to me.

Vincent Lima - To Love A Thing That Fades

it’s probably my all time favorite album (outside taylor swift’s tortured poet’s but that album just carries too much significance personally for me to recommend objectively. and it’s mainstream so i don’t have to make ppl aware 😂😅)

i’m proud of myself for pushing my creativity and testing out new things. my blog has also seen a steady increase in traffic. not nearly this dramatic. but a good amount!

def keeping this energy for 2026 🫶🏻

instead tonight there are college students on the campus of Brown University facing yet another mass casualty event at the hands of someone with a gun…

this country is fucked and i will, at my first opportunity, vote to take your guns away.

taking what little reliable energy i do have and making me spend it on something that, while good, will not allow me to establish independence or help me afford needs that food stamps don’t cover.

i’m exhausted. demoralized. depressed.

i can’t get disability benefits bc they don’t recognize my disability. i can’t find a job that accommodates my ever changing and crippling health.

so ill be giving 20 hours of my week, for free, in order to keep my access to food.

i wish we lived in a world where people did not have to prove they are worthy of food by taking advantage of their labor. i wish that our government recognized disability in a way that has inclusivity for chronic and invisible illness.