“The reason you ghost your friends, avoid responding, and disappear even when you care is because your nervous system sees connection as a demand, not a comfort. You’re not a bad friend, youw’re overwhelmed. If responding feels like a chore, maybe this account is for you.” ⁂

Bertrand Russell, 22 January 1962: (continued)

BlackRedGuard: I worked in homeless shelters. None of the older folks thought they’d end up living there when they were young. In 1996 the dude you see pushing a cart down the street was driving a truck and making hella money. In 1989 the lady passed out on the bench under a garbage bag was hanging out at the club and living her best life. In 1985 the old dude yelling to himself on the corner was chilling on a beach in Mexico on spring break, he has a degree in Chemistry. Everybody comes from somewhere and has had a life. (continued)

Anaïs Nin: “I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me - the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.” ⁂

Jim Wright: When this is over, we need to seriously implement Nuremberg-style trials. (continued)

atrupar: The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight. (continued)

Pope Leo 14: Someone who says I’m against abortion but says I’m in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. So someone who says that I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants who are in the United States, I don’t know if that’s pro-life. So they’re very complex issues. I don’t know if anyone has all the truth on them, but I would ask first and foremost that there be greater respect for one another and that we search together both as human beings, in that case as American citizens or citizens of the state of Illinois." (continued)

Retired U.S. Army Maj. General Paul Eaton: Trust me when I tell you the last thing those Admirals + Generals wanted was to be flown across multiple time zones to be lectured on what it means to be a warrior by a former PT TV Host who had to promise to stop drinking to get the job. Then have a 5-time Draft Dodger bereft of any honor as a man tell them the American people are the enemy within. (continued)