Pinned
A loon popped up next to our kayak, sized us up, and then decided we were chill. so we got to watch its whole family fish for a while :,)
habitual line-stepper
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habitual line-stepper
@alaskastardust
I’d rather be listening to 1991 hit “All This Time” by rock artist Sting off the certified platinum album The Soul Cages. wife4wife. I like hockey and birds
WV/MA
Joined April 2013
- this is how I picture myself when I'm liking y'all's posts"A Child Was Born", 1977. Photograph: Sergey Vasilyev
- I don’t know which state actually has the worst drivers, but I do know that I never saw anyone drive through the center of a roundabout until I went to Massachusetts
- all the "just take the bus" people are reminding me of how when I was in college, I was denied a job after the interviewer asked increasingly specific questions aimed at determining if I could work without relying on our local bus system
- “They won’t stop with Roe” They didn’t start with it either, you just didn’t consider anti-trans mobilization a legitimate attack on human rights.
- yeah it’s called when my wife and I stop somewhere and get two sandwiches but we swap halves so each of us gets to try two different sandwiches
- always delighted by that thing parents do where their baby has like one hair but they’re desperate for you to understand that the baby is a girl so they lovingly clip a tiny bow to the single hair
- walking into somebody’s house, where they pay rent, and trying to dictate how they are dressed at an hour when most people are asleep. every day I am alerted to some kind of bewildering behaviormy roommates bf. at 3am
- “I don’t understand what the big deal about the eclipse is” humans have always been in awe of the celestial. we love seeing what the sky is doin. you have lost your way, homo sapien. remember who you are
- the day we had to take my mom off her ventilator, I gave her a kiss on the forehead and told her I loved her. and she croaked out, “you need a tic tac”Me (lying next to 4yo as he falls asleep, thinking about the brevity of life and trying to impress this very moment in my memory for when he is grown): I love you 4yo (whispering very softly): Daddy you need a mint
- When I was a kid, everyone told me that when I grew up and started seeing taxes being taken out of my check, I would get more conservative but the opposite has happened because I look at my paycheck and I’m like “I pay this much in taxes just for people to be unhoused and unfed?“
Fewer than 10% of northern elephant seal males mate in their lifetime, we need to be talking about the northern elephant seal male loneliness epidemic.- this is just how country ppl use Facebook. “please pray for my family we’re having a really hard time” could mean anything from “dad has terminal cancer” to “my second cousin is getting divorced” to “mom was mad this morning and now the whole household is suffering”Dolly Parton’s sister says she didn’t mean to scare people by asking for prayers for the singer: “I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She’s been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe
- Old man on our lake cruise said his son had a question for the captain and then another slightly less old man came up to ask his question
