Proof I have been finding four-leaf clovers all my life, these were in the 1993 high school yearbook I just flipped through.

The literacy rate of our avifauna must be unprecedented.

I mean … who doesn’t love a good orange?

The rough draft is ready for

How the dog’s face gets groomed. One snip at a time while she is asleep.

What I have lost … and what I have gained.

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If you find him adorable, check out my post On Pet Loss

A traveler weary from mileage
Borne by raw, aching feet
By blistered heals and battered toes
Fearing ravaged feet will weight no longer hold

A traveler moving slowly
Each step cries out defeat
First one step, then another
Two weepy steps behind
Too many left

A traveler fearing herself unable
To keep on trekking
Feet shedding bloody tears
And skin
When at last she stops
Will boots hold naught but pulp and bone?

A traveler unaware must then be told
Of all that escapes her vision
And shapes her soul

The strength to carry on resides not within her feet
Her heart propels her forward
Feeds her body's motion
Layers of skin incur resurrection
Strengthened by all they have endured

At journey's end, feet unsheathed
Have been heart-tempered
Able to bear even greater weight
Yet, free to choose a friendlier path
To a happier place, with a lighter load

Not just the unpillable dog, she is also ungroomable.

(sound on)

Your daily reminder that life isn’t fair.

I wonder what it will be like for things to get better after being arguably as bad as they have ever been.

I wonder how all those falsehoods will play after things start to get better.

I wonder how many full fledged COVID deniers will finally encounter this deadly pandemic.

I wonder if red states will continue to suffer needlessly under Trumpian COVID policies.

I wonder how those red state constituents will feel when their jobs come back.

When they aren’t so frightened.

When their families feel safe.

When they feel that their families are safe.

I wonder who the ratings leader is among cable news networks.

Wait … who used to be the leader?

Okay … but for how long? Really?

I wonder what changed.

I wonder how many more previously registered Republicans will re-register with reality.

I wonder what it will feel like in 2022 … after two years of feeling better.

I wonder how difficult it would be to reject reality for 6 straight years with nothing but the whole sale loss of jobs and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American citizens to show for it.

I wonder how much quicker the historical record becomes cemented when that record has been broadcast to the globe via the digitization of every inch of our lives.

I wonder who will write that history, and how the reality rejectionists will come off in retrospect.

I wonder how embracing white supremacy and white grievance as a party platform will age as the demography tips (like flipped GA tips).

I wonder how many more people will come to believe in a shadowy high power cabal drinking up babies in the pursuit of immortality.

I wonder if it will be enough to win elections.

Possibly the smallest four-leaf clover I have ever found. I guess we’ll see when it grows up a little bigger.

As much as I splattered Twitter with my information ecosystems spiel, I cannot believe nobody corrected my misspelling “dueling” as “dualing.”

When teenagers are left alone in a swamp

Still my best idea had way too early, a social platform built around creating and producing music.

I always imagined those Trump-Putin calls going something like this…

When life was easy

My best wookie

Her best wookie

Most likely not coming

Update: perhaps I will be able to get myself reinvested if I choose to focus on the massive effort to linearize the exponentiality of the generational progress I once laid out via Twitter thread.

Another update: the focus shift totally doesn't lead to reinvestment.

What’s good for Black America is also good for the rest of America. It does not have to be a zero-sum game. — Alicia Garza to Ali Velshi on his morning show Velshi

Most likely not coming: why she is correct and why generalizing this approach would give America her best shot at successfully deprogramming her cultist citizenry (population twenty-two million, give or take)

Starting to remember how far back my against-the-grainedness goes. I recall reading this book in grade school. The take away was meant to be that the ends do not justify the means. My essay argued otherwise on account of Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

CPAC has been exactly what I need it to be in order to make the greatest leap forward … if y’all able to pivot as quickly as Mitch did.