When I was a kid, my mom pointed out the insidiousness of the line "the new old-fashioned way" in a 50s Christmas carol and it still haunts me every time I see crap parading as culture or pretending at tradition.

America standardized a "white culture" to supplant actual culture and prop up capitalism in the mid 20th c and now look at us. (We're trash.)

I can't pretend to know what happened, but there were complaints around her leading up to some deaths from other healthcare workers. It doesn't look good.

I can't go back for more than a visit. I can't live there. I left for good reasons that glare.
Still, I miss a lot.

I can't stay there.
However, the oaks, cypress, toloache, cactus, lizards, cicadas, monarchs, owls welcome me like old friends, no different from my human friends.
Human or no, we grew up together.
We are witness to one another.

Tbc, I *want* local community. I just don't know how reasonable it is to roll the dice in the time/place I am, and moving is not yet feasible. I *am* tired of uprooting, but not sure it's safe to stay where we are.

I'm so sorry, but it actually works the other way around.
We're twice as much older. :(

Imagine making up a "field of study" to avoid admitting they just have rich dads

Spineless. Yelling at Nazis is the LEAST anyone could do.

chasing bigotries is just a total political dead end. okay, today’s it is trans people. tomorrow it is black people in positions of influence. then it’s immigrants and refugees and so on and so forth.

Gfys