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Just saw a shirt that said "RISE UP" Defy the blah blah blah and lately a sign saying: GOV SHOULD BE AFRAID OF YOU etc. This is not what we teach your children...If they hurt each other, they get sent home.

Now, imagine a sign that says, in bold letters:

BE PATIENT, SEEK PEACE, ADMIT FAULT

THIS IS TO BE BRAVE

(& the rising of anger // fighting: Weakness.)

~Talk about controversy~

But this is what we must teach your children...

What are you teaching them?

I'm very proud of myself today. Yesterday I may have left my backup phone in another country, but today I went all the way to the beautiful Olympic National Park Hurricane Ridge, and from there made it to Portland, mind you not by car, but by public transport. Checked out of my hotel, two buses up and down the mountain, grabbed my bags, then another bus, then a ferry, a walk, a bus, and a bus. How many buses? 2 that were about an hour long, two that were about 3, and one that was brief. That's 5 buses and one ferry and a brisk walk up a hill in Seattle. Smashed it. For once nothing went wrong. For today. Last day down. And I'm home at last!!

It's meant to take over 8 hours not including the park detour, which added 4. Idk the miles but going since 8, 12 hr day, and there was only one way to make it work out. $1, $1, $15 park pass, $10, free, free, $3?, ~$40, total = cheap.

For 33 years I have traversed this lone and dreary world. I attempt to scout each unknown day with dignity and grace, but often fail. Doing so very much on my own has required so very much heart. My wish today as it has so often been across the years, is to one day YET find a comrade in arms to travel with, to see it all through side by side. In honor of that, I commit to continue to try. Life lately feels hazy and like a. Untethered dream, but my dream of being my best self for you, remains crystal. If I can THINK of others but DO for myself whatever it is I need, most often I'd have a better chance, at peace. To be lighthearted on my birthday perhaps would serve the majority, but to be real and true, that is to be me. Always true, always me. Happy Birthday, Diana. 5/8/26 I wrote something at 8:33AM here :j and it failed to post. Devastated loss in the moment but in the end, I prefer this anyway. Things work out. Hang in.

It's Allen, I just wanted to wish you Happy Birthday! 🎈🎉🎉🎈

Wow, thank you for remembering again Allen. Will you ever tell me what it is you had made all those years ago I never got the opportunity to receive? Curious heart

Have a lovely Friday.

Not because you owed me an explanation, but because I had supposed we were friends.

I've been nesting (...for ages) for the children, the husband, the career and the home, that I don't yet ...currently even have.

Ed, timing is everything.

Oh, come on that's a cliche and it's a bunch of crap.

No, it's not.

It is. People love saying that but it blows free will out the air lock.

If two people care about each other, the choice to love should transcend timing, and anything less is cowardice.

-Ed Mercer & Kelly

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Between soul and sacrifice--beats the heart of civilization."

"The blackest abyss is a pock in the flesh when one has gazed in solitude upon the infinity of self."

Gondus Elden - A Woman - The Orville

Women learn to love,

men choose to love.

-Konstantinos

Easter Sunday, 2026

Bubbles

So chaotic and rumbling

-Attention Grabbing

But they're only Bubbles

-Made to Pop

All the swirling jets making a surface to see across, a ruckus

But they can't get to me

-The Wild Water and Mist and Steam and Bubbles Doing what they Do

And I am calm within them.

2.23.26

I thought they were holding hands

but it was only grocery bags

Wrists cut off below the window sill viewfinder

They were holding grocery bags side by side

A challenge, lifelong it is, not to bend fear into anger. - Yoda. Rebels.

Intimacy

=

Into me you see

-Reem

I wanted to see you as soon as I got home, so I stood outside your window hoping you'd look outside and see me. And suddenly you were standing there. I couldn't believe my eyes. We must be meant for each other, Shizuku.

I still can't believe I'm not dreaming. Who cares? This is a great dream.

--

Should I get off?

No, stay on. I decided I was going to ride up this steep hill, carrying you with me.

Who said that you could decide that? I don't want to be just a burden for you. If I'm going with you, I'm going to help you.

All right, go ahead and help. Just a bit further.

--

I feel bad that I wasn't here to encourage you. I was just off thinking about myself.

Mm-hm. You're the one who inspired me Seiji. I'm glad I pushed myself. I know myself a little bit better now.

-Shizuku and Seiji

Whisper of the Heart

Listen to the voice of the forest

And the wind that blows from a far-off cluster of stars

A raw gem in a vein of lapis lazuli

Meet Mutah/Moon and The Baron

Raw Emerabls, you have to dig down deep

Those crystals are called beryl. There are pieces of raw emeralds deep inside them.

Aren't emeralds worth a lot of money?

Sure, but they need to be cut and polished first. When you first become an artist you are like that rock. You're in a raw natural state with hidden gems inside. You have to dig down deep and find the emeralds tucked away inside you.

And that's just the beginning. Once you found your gems you have to polish them. It takes a lot of hard work. Oh, and here's the tricky part look at the crack in the geode.

Okay.

You see that big green crystal there? You could spend yours polishing that and it wouldn't be worth much at all. The smaller crystals are much more valuable, and there may be some even deeper inside that we can't see which are even more precious.

--

What if I look inside myself and I don't find any gems?

What if I'm just a rock?

I'm going to try anywhay.

During the cold seasons, share your warmth.

That's all I ask.

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