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Amy
@findingmuse.bsky.social
Gen X feminist into books, art, cooking, hikes, poetry. Trying to learn to love myself. C-PTSD survivor.
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Gonna get woo woo for a bit—11 posts total.

I’m re-evaluating my spiritual beliefs. Because of everything.

I’m drawn to figures of divine mercy and strength: Jesus, la Virgen de Guadalupe, Hekate. Because they all embody different aspects of the divine—love, justice, transformation, guidance.
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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If you want to increase the birth rate here, first thing you need to do is get rid of these motherfuckers, because they are deeply unsexy mood killers who also apparently hate kids.
April 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I’m feeling better. (I’ve been knocked out the last few days with a nasty cough and cold.) Today I felt like cooking pasta like Italians do it.
April 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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It’s not wishing ill on a person to point out that actions have consequences. More like connecting the dots.

None of us should be going through this, but if you think your feelings should take priority over those of folks who didn’t sign up for *any* of this & who are most at risk, ‘fraid not.
“Now that Trump’s tariffs are threatening to end my small business, we should all care about each other” 🐆💀
April 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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April 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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You really ought to watch this. Seriously.
April 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
The most important part of my trip that had the most emotional impact on me: Dachau. Walking into the roll call area hit hard. I had to take deep breaths. I got weepy. Also walking past 30+ long gravel beds where the barracks were, to the crematorium area. Which was also really emotional.
April 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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As your lifestyle allows, go out this week and buy coffee from a local coffee shop, buy a book from an indie bookstore, get some spring plants from the local nursery. Maintain your comfort zone, but these are days when our community businesses need us as much as we need them.
April 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Here are some photos of my amazing & exhausting whirlwind trip in Europe. We’re almost at the end. I’m in Germany right now and we leave tomorrow. I have mixed feelings. I miss my bed. I miss my cat. I miss knowing how things (systems) work.

But it’s a bit depressing to go back to…you know.
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April 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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It takes a really long time to build up trust & not nearly as long to lose it.

And once it’s lost, it takes even longer —& requires even more purposeful effort — to regain it than it did to gain it in the first place.
March 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Scenes from London. We got lost/separated from our group last night when we missed a Tube connection. An adventure! I slept like a corpse. This morning I had an English breakfast…but wasn’t brave enough to try the toast w/beans. (Tomorrow I will.)
March 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Cast yourself as the villain
March 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Let me get this straight: these people who are *suspected of* (meaning not proven guilty of) being undocumented WHO PAID THEIR TAXES run the risk of being incarcerated indefinitely or subject to extraordinary rendition for following the law?
This is another norm being broken which is dangerous: Normally, personal tax information — even an individual’s name and address — is considered confidential & closely guarded within the IRS. Unlawfully disclosing tax data carries civil and criminal penalties. www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants
The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...
www.washingtonpost.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Feeling like making Blue Sky my new home. It’s quieter. And I like quiet. (We’ll see.)

Watching Adolescence on Netflix. It’s so disturbing. On so many different levels. We are an Fd up species. 🤦🏼‍♀️
March 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I GASPED!! when I figured this out. It was an accident.

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March 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Because I’m crap at communication I’m not actually leaving yet. That’s about 5 days away still. But my HAIR is ready.
Okay, London. No more big fires and airport shutdowns, please. I just got my hair done, located my smile again, and I’m ready to walk 10K steps every day for a week with 30 teens and strange adults I don’t know (plus my own teen who I love very very much but she gets grumpy fast).
March 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@efevans.bsky.social I’m so glad you’re here! I’m very bad about checking in here. I try to remember to on the weekends. But I’m glad you’re here.
March 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Okay, London. No more big fires and airport shutdowns, please. I just got my hair done, located my smile again, and I’m ready to walk 10K steps every day for a week with 30 teens and strange adults I don’t know (plus my own teen who I love very very much but she gets grumpy fast).
March 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I’m pleased with myself on this one.

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March 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Anyone who says “there is no bottom” forgets that there is always a bottom. It is unyielding & very, very hard.
March 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
In case you need a timeline cleanse. Here’s your reminder: go drink some tea. Or water. 🫖 Breathe.
March 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
On the good news front, you guys. LOOK!!!

Twelve days. We verified our passports, chose our seats. I can’t believe it’s so close!!
March 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Here’s me lip syncing to one of my life’s theme songs. It was for Wink Wednesday but we’ll call this Flirtatious Friday. Just pretend I’m Dick Van Dyke in drag.
March 14, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Flowers. From a sweet boy. (These won’t pay my rent, but they make my job happier.)
March 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Went out with my girl,
To do capitalism
Before the rich win.

She said no to a
Selfie, because her hair was
Not perfect—like her.

She’s perfect as is
And I wish she saw herself
Through my eyes, with love.
#poem
March 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM