mrgah 🌱 @mrgah@mastodon.social

Don’t forget, you've got love
You've got bravery, you’ve got trust
You’ve got bodies, responsibilities
There’s still mountains, they're pushing up from underneath
You’ve got pain, caused plenty of
It’s not so strange but now you’ve had enough
Don’t forget your bones and skin
Or where you go, or where you’ve been

-Mirah, Bones & Skin

"To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk."

RS

by external measures, today has been fine: fam stuff was ok, food was decent, and am just chilling at home now (it has been pretty brutally hot, though)

and yet-- still feeling anxious, though 😬

after the 2nd or 3rd sighting, I'm pretty sure it _is_ mink that I've been seeing out in the country near our place

that's all; just pretty excited to be seeing mink in the wild for the first time

alright, that's enough aggravation for now

I'll be back on my regularly scheduled inanity shortly

but the shock of Kennedy choosing to step down has totally worn off this morning, because he's an old white conservative

I grew up around lots of (now old, well-educated, upper middle class) white conservatives in the midwest, and they're almost all Trump-supporting nihilists now

they make excuses for the completely inhumane shit that happens, parrot Trump admin lies and talking points, etc. etc.

so somehow it's totally unsurprising that Kennedy has also capitulated

and as a friend pointed out last night, it's real bad for the 2018 election, because, if the nomination is still unresolved, a _lot_ of conservatives who might have been uninterested are going to be super motivated to show up and vote if it means there's a chance of reversing Roe, possibly Obergefell, etc.

and the d base may be pretty dispirited, too

and the worse the 2018 election goes for d's, the greater the chances of DT getting reelected in 2020 are

ofc, I was shocked and dismayed about the Kennedy announcement yesterday, esp because it presages a generation where a conservative court can just swat down whatever positive things the executive or legislative branches do, or reverse the few good things the court has done in the past 50 years

y'all are an island of sanity and good feels 💛 💚 ❤️

I've only got two things for all those trump voters who bear some share in the coming conservative scotus

the way this summer's going, I'm way more nervous about lebron's decision now

oh, and that was uspol (-)

we've been there, but:
darkest timeline

ah, summer
things I did this lazy, hot weekend:
-slept in until 9 one day, more or less
-worked on training doggo, who was mostly good
-fought back the weeds
-went for a swim in a lake I've never been to before
-hung out at some friends' house while _all the kids_ ran around in their swimsuits, which was entertaining
-ate some ice cream from their dairy
-had my first sweet corn of the season (good, not great)

realized today that mr rogers is probably the only person from my lifetime I can really imagine as the central figure of a new religion

been busy

and aw, I missed you guys 💚

so, so unphotogenic