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Things are hard right now. If something you know will make you feel better (AKA cleaning my room) but the idea of doing it exhausts you and/or makes you anxious and depressed, break it down (AKA get all the trash out of my room). Be kind to yourselves.

What is life if you never fall out of a spinny chair

Having petty grandparents is the best. Grandpa gives you $50 so grandma gives you $75. Honestly I wished they both lived in the same town so they could one up each other more often.

This world has a lot of awful stuff and if someone holding a stuffed animal helps them cope, let them hold a stuffed animal. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what gender they are.

I’m working through Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson and I am crying. The absolute injustice that has occurred in America in the last several decades. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize the cheating in government had been going on for as long as it has. The lack of fairness in government is alarming. I was definitely the kid who cried when things weren’t fair (I understand equity vs equality, and sorta did when I was a kid). I am appalled and angry that some politicians have spend years changing the rules on everyone and cheating.

But anyway, it’s such an amazing book and I wish it could be school curriculum but it won’t ever be until Republicans aren’t able to mess with school curriculum. It airs way too many of their dirty (not so) secrets.

The Pineapple (hedgehog) has a Pineapple (house)

Tinker bell is an engineer

It’s too lonely to think that no one thinks as deeply as you do.

I think some of the differences in our opinions come from experience. It is interesting to hear another prospective. I do want to say I mean specifically the riots and looting surrounding the George Floyd protests. Not the protests themselves. I was appalled at what the police did to Floyd, but my understanding of most of the rioting was that it was caused by people who were more interested in chaos than continuing to protest. Now, I am a white woman who lives in a conservative area and while I do consider myself liberal and support BLM, I do not have the experience of being a oppressed race. So it probably was a bit unfair to mention the George Floyd riots. I wanted more to make it less of a political statement by addressing both sides. The George Floyd riots are in no way the same as the Capitol riots and my original posts did suggest they were the same so that is my bad.

This might be naivety, but I don’t believe riots and revolutions should be considered as anything other than the last option. I have seen too many people in person and online that seem too ready to jump on the revolution train. Watching the January 6 riots terrified me. Watching the George Floyd riots terrified me. Both for different reasons but both terrified me. My original post was only a musing about if the prevalence of revolution stories has primed people to accept revolution as a reasonable early step to fixing a government you don’t like instead of protesting, voting, and writing to your lawmakers. (I also know a lot of people who think voting is pointless and just don’t vote and they are far to ready to take up arms for a revolution.)

But I am glad we agree on voting. I just don’t believe that this country is so far gone that we need to be rioting.

I wonder how the prevalence of revolution stories in our (United States) literature and media (hunger games, divergent, etc.) has introduced the idea that revolution is the first thing to do when a system is broken. How has that idea convinced people that rioting may be the correct thing to do (Capitol riot, George Floyd riots, etc.)?

YES. Rain is the best weather.

Gray day