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My Friend Kaylen
@myfriendkaylen.bsky.social
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🎙️ Former Radio DJ - Philly, CO, NY
♿ NeuroSarcoid = Medically fascinating
🧶 Knitting, Making, Project Person
☔ Rain, trees, animals, night
🥏 Occasional round of Disc Golf
🏒 Sports fan 🥧 Pie
💍 Married, Empty nest
🔵 Independent voting with Dems
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I call this "Sorting Gone Wrong" AKA "Tantrum with Tupperware."
#organizing #reducereuserecycle
Plastic reusable containers and lids strewn on the kitchen floor.
December 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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My dysautonomia is doing a tango today.

#dysautonomia #sarcoidosis #smallfiberneuropathy #chronic #bloodpressure
Primarily two blood pressure readings are shown. One is high at 194/114. The other is low at 103/73. These are both just from standing or doing regular activity like walking to the kitchen. My body's signals can't automatically do what they are supposed to. They can't regulate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
#poetry #MaryOliver #nature #love #placeintheworld #belonging
WILD GEESE Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting, You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine, Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to vou like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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With the uncertainty of #insurance (and everything else), cataracts are taken care of while my out-of-pocket max has been met. It's been a big medical year. Infusions, gallbladder, thyroid cancer, and all that comes with #neurosarc. Liver issues and seeing if I'm a candidate for IVIG up next! 🤞🏻 🌸
Sixty-two year old woman with long brown and grey hair waving to the camera. She has a shield taped over one eye and large brown medical sunglasses on. Sitting in the passenger seat of a car. She's very grateful for her husband's job provided medical insurance due to preexisting conditions. She's grateful for his care, as well. They navigate a ton of health issues and costs. #sarcoidosis #autoimmune #longcovid #smallfiberneuropthy #dysautonomia #thyroidcancer #liverfibrosis #IVIG
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Lando says hi!
Black cockapoo senior dog with gray on his muzzle and ears. He's laying on the carpet, head up, looking at camera, with his tennis ball in front of him.
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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Northern lights in the Bluegrass. This is the first time we've seen them with the naked eye here!
Pink and greenish blue hues in the sky over the tree line. Taken with a phone camera with night setting.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Lando stuck his face in the mud. Nothing else. Just his face. #dogs
Black cockapoo sitting politely on the blue tiled kitchen floor while his human takes a picture of his shenanigans. His face is covered in mud.
October 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Someone had a long travel day. #Lando #dogs #RV #travel
Black cockapoo sleeping on the camper floor.
September 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Have you ever smelled the trunk of a ponderosa pine? Vanilla! #NewMexico #nature #trees
A trunk is of a ponderosa pine is in the foreground with shrubby dessert plants and rocks in the back.
September 21, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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My mom started it! Every year, my family has a competition to see who can grow the longest red noodle bean. 🫘 My daughter and I are currently tied at 21.5".

#familyfun #gardening
A bean plant in a barrel pot with long, thin, dark reddish purple beans. Like a long green bean.
August 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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Rabbit Rabbit!

#rabbitrabbit #firstofthemonth #traditions #folklore
Wild rabbit sitting in a field of clover.
August 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Hmmm 🧐 💛 🧶
There are six circles, each a different color, with labels, and with numbers faintly visible within them. The meme says "If you cannot see a number you: Have a cold (blue with faint #4). Have a Headache (green with faint #2). Need Sleep (pink with faint #0). Need Water (brown with faint #6) Need Yarn (yellow with NO number😄) Have Low Blood Sugar (orange with faint #9)
July 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Post your favorite Doctor Who. Wrong answers only
Alan Alda as Hawkeye in the TV show M.A.S.H.. He is in his green uniform and slightly smiling.
June 29, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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I thought these two were clever! #nokings
A woman holding a sign embellished with a large taco. "I'd like that taco to go, please." A woman in a beautiful, colorful dress holding a sign that says "Only butterflies should be monarchs."
June 15, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Traveling but stopped in Paducah. #Nokings Hundreds turned out. #paducah #kentucky
Woman in wheelchair with a small American flag and a sign that says "We the People". Man on sidewalk during the protest holding a small American flag and a sign with a handrawn cartoon of an orange-haired king and the word "NOPE" underneath.
June 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#nokings Happy Flag Day 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"With liberty and justice for all" in red and blue on a white background
June 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Ya'll. Today's batch emerging. One tree of hundreds on our property alone. 17-year Brood XIV. The birds land in a tree and it literally "rains" cicadas.

In 2042, I'm outta here. 🤣😳

#cicadas
May 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Petoskey, Michigan. I didn't find a Petoskey stone, but there were a lot of other fossils. #amuchneededbreak
A sunset over Lake Michigan with a few trees in the foreground. A lake with shades of blue and turquoise water. A patch of groomed grass is in the foreground with shrubs and a line of sand. A few people can be seen walking in the distance. A rock is being held in front of the camera. It is a smooth medium gray one with a fossil on it. It could be a brachiopod.
May 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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That's today, for all who celebrate. 😛 I've made a few acquaintances here. Thanks for lightening the load. And thank you FSR for all the work! stopsarcoidosis.org #sarcoidosis #neurosarcoidosis
World Sarcoidosis Day is April 13th 2025.
April 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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What could Lando possibly want? 😆 🐶 #dogs
A bowl of pasta salad almost gone in the foreground with a black cockapoo sitting and waiting at full attention beyond it.
April 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Drop something SANDY
April 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Caught

🪶 #birds
April 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Post Dog
Black cockapoo sitting with me in my recliner while we watch the #NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. TV is in the background. He's looking back at me.
April 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Inside you there are two wolves
Cartoon image of Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle at a race starting line.
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Me in the National Security team group chat
The scene from the movie E.T. where he's hiding in the closet among the stuffed animals and ragdolls.
March 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM