earlier this week my partner said “once you start paying attention to birds you have the opportunity to experience beauty and wonder every day” and i started crying

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

If God is a clockmaker . And Jesus was a carpenter. It’s very likely the Holy Ghost was doing some candle or shoe stuff