Heidi

Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

Also, happy birthday (you have to accept it)

Aw ❤️

It shouldn't. It's like I can never get away from it. They're just going to keep bringing it up, even after I actually requested to increase my hours by a day recently 🙄

But I do feel angry that he brought it up as if it was my responsibility to manage my coworkers' feelings and perceptions. If someone has a problem, he and HR should be addressing it with them, not me.

I was cool as hell about it, though. 😎

It was his way of picking away at my dignity during a meeting about me entering a new role with a higher salary.

"Remember, you're disabled, so people around you think you're lazy and entitled."

Except I don't care. I know I work hard. I know my limits. It's no one else's business.

Really love that the general manager told me, during our meeting to discuss my new salary as a funeral director, that "people notice and talk" about my reduced work hours ADA accommodation.

How is that my problem?

At work yesterday, I overheard the guy in dispatch tell the woman in dispatch, "I just told them the view was at 11... Because I don't know how to explain Heidi." And the other dispatcher said, "Mhmm" knowingly.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

#signsyoumayhaveADHD

Get em!!

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

www.gofundme.com/f/severemerg...

@thane_black - when u have a chronic illness u are constantly told by drs that u couldn't possibly be so sick, bc you are too young. but then decades pass, and they pivot to saying that the symptoms you're experience are actually a natural part of aging, and everyone feels that way

When asked to describe PEM ppl said it feels like: "my body is filled with wet sand". "they're hostage", "unrelenting", "torture poison", "all my cells dying...", "hell on earth", "prison in my mind", "punishment for existing", "like you are dying"

These are 9 tiny snippets from 100+ responses.

1) This paper on vulvodynia highlights many of the problems with the biopsychosocial approach that have come up in ME/CFS research.

There's a shift to a psychological approach that focuses on individual behaviours and attitude and excludes structural and biomedical factors.

You know what ages you?

Stress. Sun exposure. Environmental toxins. Heredity. Lack of healthcare.

I'm tired of age being equated with ugliness, and both being equated with a lack of virtue. We know better.

We're lucky to age. Some people never get to.

I feel like I'm slowwwwly getting a better quality of life 🥹

I'm just super excited because I lifted my dumbbells for the first time in like years last week and then used my exercise bands to work my glutes today 😅

Now, thanks to Prednisone & (maybe?) Plaquenil & keeping to my limits, I'm finding pockets of energy now where I can try to abate further health disintegration.

Not with any rigor yet, & only 1x/week, but it's a start!

I did a little exercise today 🥹

I'm dealing with IT band syndrome as a result of being unable to exercise for 4 years due to flares triggered by exertion & climbing stairs regularly with weakened major muscle groups

Chronic illness is a catch-22, but!

Folks, look, it’s easy to make fun of Kid Rock but it’s important to remember that it’s also hilarious.

Clergy friends, your moral voice matters so, so SO much in this moment.

In the public square.

Pushing your electeds.

With congregants.

At actions.

Teaching the truths of your tradition & using the authority of your office.

& calling in all that damn social capital.

What ELSE is it FOR

At the regional funeral directors meeting:

"The Reeve's sleeve weighs 16 lbs, handles 1,000 lbs"

"Amen"

Come to VA for the best embalming 💅🏼

Thank you 🥲

Y'all, I graduated from mortuary school in December, passed both national board exams, and just passed my state licensing exam.

I'M A LICENSED FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER NOW

I'm glad! I'm hoping now that I'm done with school and about to be fully licensed, I'll have more energy to write about this kind of thing

Rethinking Pagan Funerals Most of the Pagan rites of passage I’ve come across – either theoretically or in real life – have been more or less faithful in structure to Christo-humanistic formats with a few …

I think about Pagan funerals A LOT as a Pagan and a mortician. I think we've collectively got a good handle on marriage rites, but funerals and births are vague at best, and funerals especially are crucial in processing grief. This is my first attempt at conceptualizing my own.

wp.me/pdnT10-Yo

Daughters of earth no less than ferns and roses!
Even through them the great world-spirit peers!
The mold, that feeds upon decay, reposes
In the hand that turns the spheres.
—"Fungi" by Stanton A. Coblentz

He had Ben Shapiro on his podcast

He may know it’s authoritarianism

And still he eats at its table

NRA accidentally forgets to rise up against tyrannical government