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[themusesof75]

Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan

[irregularspace]

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forgive yourself forgive your thoughts forgive change forgive life forgive death forgive the pain forgive whats left

[themusesof75]

Green baby space bunnies

anyone else waited for those at the end of the movie?

[echlime]

[massiveenthusiastpeace]

[you-do-not-deserveme]

It's hard to imagine life having turned out any differently. People always say they wish they could go back in time and fix their mistakes, so often not realizing that should that option suddenly become available, nothing would end up the same at all. Maybe it was an instance of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, bad luck, a drunken decision that you learned to regret or maybe all three at once. Maybe it was the one thing you didn't do, one person you wish you had met or the opportunities missed that are far too plentiful to count on one hand. Maybe you just keep replaying a different outcome in your head, running through the hundreds of possibilities besides the one you are living in. Maybe you, like most other people, can't fathom how that one mistake, that one alcohol infused choice, that one chance you failed to take, was the reason that you are who you are today. And maybe if you could understand that you would decide that the past doesn't have to be changed but accepted and learnt from instead.

you-do-not-deserveme

[afterhopeandchange-blog]

Hope, Change, and Small-Town America

As noted before, the title of our book — After Hope and Change — anticipated a media meme.  

At The Guardian, Sarah Eberscpacher writes:

My party has gotten cocky, and I fear that condescending mentality will lose us this election. Because for all of his divisive bluster, Trump has gotten one thing right time and again: small-town America is not doing great.

Don’t get me wrong: I sure as hell won’t be casting a ballot for Trump this November. But I have watched this primary season unfold through a different lens than my very liberal coworkers and fellow New Yorkers, who live in a world that’s largely bounced back from the recession.

Where my family lives, factories are closing. Schools don’t have enough money for teachers, and all of Barack Obama’s hope and change hasn’t done much trickling down in the last eight years. And just because the moderate voters living in these areas aren’t showing up at Trump rallies or plastering your Facebook wall with tirades about Muslims doesn’t mean they’re planning to support Obama’s heir apparent come November.