It took me this many years to realize how dissonant "California Girls" truly is. The melody against the lyrics now makes me sick.

I'm not tone deaf.
Just doing what I can to find the beauty in some corner of every day.
None of us I think can 100% say they have the life they wanted.
If you can, you're extraordinarily blessed.
This was beautiful, in all the right ways.
Onward.

Winter trees,covered in tiny birds. I keep lights at night through the winter chill until.the windows open to song.

Sometimes, after reading posts that do not include people I actually know in RL, I think, "This just can't be real". And then I realize that algorithms shape our perception. It's not the single post, it's the stream. If you want to know who is controlling our narrative, maybe it's us.

Leaving behind years of the Metaverse. Open sky is a new journey. Hopefully.