a woman says speculate wildly with her hands up in the air Alt: Famed Pawnee news personality Joan Callamezzo says “speculate wildly” with her hands up in the air

Happy #nationalteaday to all who celebrate! 🫖

Quick dramaturgical note for the new chairman of the Kennedy Center:

If you stage The Sound of Music, the guys in the red armbands are the bad guys, actually.

Agreed. However, I saw this at Giant and I think we’ve gone too far.

My brain is currently:

50% political rage
50% aBRAcaDAbraAbraCADaabRAAA

It’s called balance.

Cynthia Erivo holding space for that

Lady Gaga: abracadabra amor oo na na abra ca dab ra morta oo gaga
me:

I just blocked someone for claiming that audiobooks don’t count as reading. I don’t need that kind of negativity in my life.

A fluffy Samoyed curled up on a blue bedspread with sun coming in the bedroom windows

Life hack:

Sleeping in on a Sunday

next to someone you love

with a fluffy dog curled up at the foot of your bed

Bird! A blue jay. Sitting on a bent branch of a dogwood tree, the branch mounded with snow, the dappling of late day sunlight behind. The blue jay is in the left of frame, facing right, its tuft slicked back and catching the golden light. In its mouth -- er, it's beak, is the beak its mouth, or is the mouth inside the beak okay never mind whatever -- IN THE BEAK is a peanut. A treasure. A prize. A little snack. The blue jay looks quite pleased at what it is found in the snow -- taken before a squirrel could get it. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

ANYWAY, sorry, here's a bird. Pause and regard the bird. The bird is happy, for the bird has found a peanut. May we all find the small joy of finding a tasty snack today.

(photo by me)

Package of fruit at grocery store with label that states “not the best but still a good buy”

Relatable content, honestly.

🙏

DON'T HESITATE If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

Mary Oliver never misses.

In a small step toward a healthier relationship with social media, I’ve deleted Facebook from my phone.

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