#whereisdani

[whereisdani]

a very long story about a dog and a child

so i just moved to SC to work a min wage job on an island for the summer and today i went to the beach by myself for the first time to watch the sunrise and it WAS RED. but anyway i was staked out in my beachin new beach chair and there was this two year old girl there with her dad and she was running in and out of the surf having a grand time and so they passed by me. and then later this older guy came by with THE WORLD'S BEST DOG who was fetching a tennis ball up and down the beach and being short and fuzzy and cute. ANYWAY so the man with the tennis ball and his dog were going one way and the girl and her dad were wandering back up the beach towrds them and the man threw the ball and it bounced to the little girl's feet and she picked it up and the dog came up and was really excited so she two-year-old threw it like 6 inches in front of herself and he picked it up and HE KEPT BRINGING IT BACK TO HER AND FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES THEY PLAYED TOGETHER. And she kept throwing the ball into the ocean (her throwing actually got really good) and the dog was probably getting annoyed because and the dog was so short and the ball probably tasted like SEAWATER but he kept bringing it to her and whenever the girl would get out too deep the dog would like try to herd her farther inland. and both of them WERE SO EXCITED TO BE WITH EACH OTHER. anyways, i just felt hashtag blessedt that out of the whole entire beach they decided to be cute right in front of my chair.

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missing @candid-ramblings

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I’m American so I’ve always lived in a world where if you’re Asian or black or whatever, you’re called a minority, which although minority is not supposed to be a derogatory term, it implies that you are disadvantaged and the world is run by white people. Now I am living in a big city in West Africa. And EVERYONE here is black. And it’s not a minority thing and it’s not… idk. There are no stereotypes or assumptions or snap judgments I can make on people here that are related to race. Like, “being black” isn’t a thing here. It just is. It’s not disadvantaged, it’s not a lens through which to see someone… blackness is just not something that even registers because this is a world that is black. So there’s no associations with it. So yeah. The world is not white and America and politics constantly labeling blacks and Asians and various brown people as minorities others them and is a dehumanizing, colonialist way of viewing the world.

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one of my new favorite things now that i work in the adult world is when middle aged coworkers ask “so do you have a boyfriend?” and I’m like, “well i am single, but also I’m gay” and then they back pedal a million miles an hour and start listing all the cool gay people they've ever known or interacted with to show me how cool they are with gay people

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dancing on moving sidewalks at airports is my favorite

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TOMORROW

i am getting on a plane and moving to a city in west africa for few months. so that’s exciting.

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my girlfriend is my favorite

i just got a postcard (ya know, the kind of snail mail anyone can read) from my girlfriend that says “I just want to fuck and hang out, I just want to FUCK AND HANGOUT, BABYGIRL!”