Impressive!

Yeah.. you understand my issue. 🥴 I flex and point my toes and rotate my ankles at my desk throughout the day. The left foot is tighter than the right and much weaker. It is slowly improving. And my cardio endurance is coming back quickly, so I am panicking less. Gotta keep the exercise habit!

Hadn’t heard of it until you asked. When I was small, we used to vacation in Muskogee canoeing and camping. The stereotypes are dead on. Crazy stuff happens in the middle of nowhere. I’ll have to get Hulu again and watch it.

Quanah Parker was awesome! His home where he died is a quarter mile from my family’s graveyard in Oklahoma. We used to be distinct groups, then tribal lines blurred. I’m a Marley fan - we’re all one people.

Lol! My heritage is Cherokee and Choctaw. Comanche were pure evil from that perspective. We only became friendly after both peoples are close to being extinct. You’re right - wasn’t that long ago at all. History is easily erased. I’m not surprised you don’t know anything.

This is when my ancestors left north Texas and migrated back to Oklahoma. Racism made it hard to find jobs and not be murdered.

I also have ancestors named in the book. Choctaw shot in the back in Dallas.

Empire of the Summer Moon is one of my favorites. My husband is a direct descendent of the Texas woman who survived a Comanche raid by playing dead when an arrow meant for her heart got stuck in her whale bone corset. The story is real and told in this book.

Audiobooks 😏

An amazing novel that also happens to be true. Warning, cruzan dialect is tough to read if you’re not from there. Its, English, I swear!

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Things started changing when ordinary Americans began feeling the impacts of what he was doing. I never wanted people to hurt, yet it was the only thing that was ever going to turn things around.

Reporting on well-known crimes is preaching to the choir and further alienating the part of the country that feels persecuted.

Basically, everyone is figuring out what the new rules are so they can keep going, and choosing their battles carefully for biggest effect.

The people providing details of crimes talk cautiously. 18 year old students can get professors, deans, and university presidents fired in 24 hours in Texas, so now universities do not have free speech. Funding is cut when undesirable key words are used. Brown-skinned Americans are kidnapped.

Also people are being fired and disappeared. There’s temperance to keep your position.

Apology not accepted. Resignation would be best.

From my end, nothing feels normal. I’m going about my day with a knot in my stomach. Do what you can from where you are to put goodness in the world. It all adds up and every effort will matter.

Americans are beginning to have real struggles with loss of employment, affording housing and food, and access to healthcare and education. I am not sympathetic for the people who voted to hurt other people and then want to be cared for when they realize that they hurt themselves.