I need to share something a little birdie said to me while I was recovering from yet another day online: Social media is where people go to panic.
It helped me get a grip so I hope it helps you.
Now I look at our situation this way: We get to be the good guys fighting the bad.
How awesome is that, eh?
Someone on BlueSky suggested Howard Lutnick needs his ass kicked by a veteran laid off from his job and now missing his monthly social security payment.
It's what they all need. An ass kicking. Mano a mano. Bigger guys just taking them down one by one 'til they get the message: Fuck off outta here, Nazi assholes.
It's coming. They can't sustain this. And while the Democratic Party in the US may seem to be at war with itself, I don't think so. I think, rather, there's a changing of the guard happening.
Now is time for Bernie's revolution led by AOC. That's my take anyway. She has Zelensky level courage.
She's the little girl who grew up to save America.
So I've been baking, creating deliciousness from flour, butter, eggs, sugar. But also working on my cooking skills and I've become a pro at black bean taco salad, egg fried rice and tomato sauce. I hadn't been eating any meat at all but we're back to eating some.
We've bbq'ed once a week all winter. Certified organic, humanely raised, small batch, Canadian chicken (thighs) and, occasionally, beef.
I really want crickets to become available in grocery stores. It's important as we age, protein, and although I walk to and swim at the community centre (and I highly recommend joining one if you haven't already) I don't lift weights nearly often enough.
It's not the aging, it's the keeping up, but I want to set as good an example as I can for young people so they don't live in dread of older age, which, so far for me has proven to be quite the state of grace.
Don't look back, just look forward. The past is just a story we made up about ourselves. Dr. Wayne Dyer says to throw out the narrative. The past is gone. There's only now.
This helps in dealing with the wounds we suffer in childhood and may not even remember except in the body. I'm not that little kid anymore. I'm a senior with all the agency necessary to navigate this world.
It's taken me longer maybe than most of you to get it but I do. It isn't about me anymore. I can let go. No more having to prove myself worthy, fake it 'til I make it, check off the list of must dos or I'll be left out, miss out, be cast out.
Dr. Dyer again: Change your perspective and your perspective changes.
Eat, sleep, exercise. Be helpful when/where you can. Stop saving for the future, spread it around now. It's crazy how we've been raised to live in fear of not having enough money to live on in our old age, like we're 19th century pioneers, as opposed to swimming in wealth built up by generations of us.
Wish everybody well, even Conservatives, in trust they will see the light.
Shake off the roles we're assigned by society along the way and stop assigning them to others. It's the roles we play that get in our way.
Gender is a social construct of the Patriarchy. Period. End of. Embrace the freedom to be whoever you are. We're all the same human. Just look at babies and very old people.
I watch all the therapy reels that come up on my Facebook page and one guy who walks and talks his spiels describes himself as a former people pleaser. It struck a chord.
Living authentically is a real challenge for some of us but there's no other way to live.
The mother ego is the worst. Let me tell you. She is bad.
I've been reading and just finished the third in an erotic thriller series: Maestra, Domina, Ultima. They're by L.S. Hilton and excellent for taking the mind off and away to the world of fine art and serial killing. The twist is it's our heroine, or anti-heroine, I guess, who's the baddie. And if you're a fine arts aficionado you'll be in heaven. I'm not so it was a lot of art history to not really take in but the sex scenes are the best I've ever read.
Now I'm reading Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. It's giving me interesting dreams because it's existential time travel technology and not usually my thing but she's a good writer so I'm enjoying it. The premise is, our life here, on the moon colonies, is a computer simulation. The characters in the book, some of them, are experiencing a nostalgia for a time before technology took the living out of life.
Meanwhile, here in real life, we're in a war against billionaire technocrats who are using technology to destroy us and there's nothing for it but to defeat them.
And we will because we're the good guys.
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