You Are Not 🎀just A Girl🎀 You Are A Grown Woman Living In A Country Ruled By Religious Extremists

Promising myself to become the woman of my dreams.

Ok it is rainy and cold and gross so it is time for fall recipes!

What are your suggestions, gyns?

Slow dancing to George Strait in the living room, Scrambled eggs made into breakfast tacos, stolen kisses over coffee mugs, the surprise appearance of Sugar and creamer in the fridge in a house where the coffee is always black, PBRs next to Coors Banquets, cozy nights and early mornings that are still slow paced and sweet, not minding that one of them sings off key and the other performs 3 nights a week, 2 left feet learning to two-step because it makes the dancer smile and laugh, sharing a pew and stolen glances over the sermon, range days and rainy days, stolen hoodies smelling of horse flesh and a forge, bourbon and woodsmoke, candid photos, splinters in palms patching up slag burns on forearms, shared prayers and shared breaths, a Pecan and a Possum, all eyes in the bar on the couple on the dance floor but they've only got eyes for each other. Hoof testers next to chisels, steel and maple. Hand crafted Belts exchanged for hand carved knives. Critters creating chaos, and the chaos being just fine.

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Highs and Lows This Week 🩵

Highs: girls night tinis and the return of a man I sent away to go do the work on himself who, shocking everyone, has been doing the work, and my dogs got to go on some good hikes.

Lows: I'm in a mask for the next 2 weeks because he then popped a fever after spending all day with me Monday. Olive got into some drywall dust in the stairwell where I'm storing my renovation supplies for the clinic. Hannibal fell into the toilet not once but twice and required baths.

quick tip: if you feel unproductive no matter how much you're working and/or studying, what you're lacking is not more responsibilities, it's actually leisure. I know it may seem contradictory, but having hobbies, having a "busy" free time, filling up your schedule not only with obligations but also with things you do simply out of fun, with no goal in sight, are all extremely important to make you feel fulfilled and drive away this anxiety.

if you're only experiencing progress with the aim of improving your career and making money, but not nourishing your soul and spirit, you'll always feel like you're missing out or lacking in something.

find something that relaxes you, that takes your mind off your obligations and that makes you build a better relationship with your inner self, and this feeling will vanish.

I cannot stress enough to you that all American government agencies are falling apart at the seams right now and they will not be put back together for the foreseeable future. EPA DHS ED VA FDA NIH IRS CDC HHS NPS etc... Elon Musk is dismantling everything. Anyone who resigns or is laid off now, the word we (I am an agency employee) are receiving internally is that their position will be abolished, not backfilled.

Do you like eating clean, safe food?

Do you like having clean, safe air and water?

Do you want experts monitoring developing infectious diseases?

Do you like getting tax returns?

Do you want your children to have free, quality, public education?

If so, you need to write to your senators and representatives RIGHT NOW. Trump is not obeying the rule of law. He is illegally firing all the inspectors general of these agencies (they are literally being escorted by security out of their offices) so that there is no one left to stop him from doing quite literally anything he wants. He has bypassed the internal structure of all of the agencies by plugging in external email servers to push typo-filled emails and memos written by employees of the heritage foundation directly into the inbox of every federal agency employee in the country, threatening to terminate them.

The rule of law is dead. The only mechanism left to stop any of this is mass public outcry via convincing your state's congressmen & women to do something, because right now they are staying absolutely silent and none of us in these agencies can figure out why. A massacre is happening right now and every single American will feel the material, concrete consequences of this in their daily lives very soon if nothing is done.

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