Tag: ramble
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Another day, another adventure..
This.. Is me right now in all my exhausted, wavy haired glory. Emerson has a car now, and I am Out and About with him because he bribed me with coffee
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Getting Back on Track
When we were younger, mid teens or so, our family would always accuse us of having a one track mind and say that we needed to “get off the track” when we hyperfocused on something a bit too hard for their taste or comfort. I, Allēna, am particularly bad about that. I’m very tightly wound,…
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Talked with my maternal grandmother today for the first time in years.
I’m sure how I feel about about it yet. I’m still too stressed and tired to tell how I feel about much of… Anything, really. But I’m sure my entire mother’s side of the family will have opinions before I will.. In light of all of this, I’m going to go attempt a nap. -Allēna
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Well, shit. We do take after our father…
Do you ever have one of those moments where you just sit back and go “Jesus Henry Christ, I’ve become my father!” Well, my system is having one. The fact that we have a chaos blog itself, the articles and thoughts we’ve begun collecting and sharing under the UsPol tag, or even the fact that…
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Episode YES: Insomnia Strikes Back
Hello, cherished mothers and fuckers. Lazarus here once more with your daily Des Moines Cropduster (context below, thanks, Theo). I thought this prompt looked interesting and I have a few responses for y’all. If you had a freeway billboard, what would it say? Here are my favorite contenders thus far: Ashley Halliwell’s Brainhole, New and…
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Delicious Things
Hey, everyone. Lazarus here again. I have been in a sort of soupy atemporal sea of time and space in my brain. I busted one of my phones a few days ago, so I was running things exclusively off my laptop for a bit there, but I cannot wrap my brain around blogging on my…
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The Art of Finding Ways (Or Making Them)
Hey, everyone! I’m currently writing on here as my love Hawthorne works on their story back East as a form of body doubling in spirit. I’m a bit tired and they’re Writer’s blocked to fuck, so knowing that the other is writing is helping both of us get shit done. I did similarly with Zelda…
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A Journey To The Center Of Myself
Well, hello, everyone. I was originally going to write about something a bit different – problem solving and Stoicism – but then I saw this prompt from the journaling app Day One and this feels a bit more meaningful: What does it mean to be a kid at heart? Truth be told, I have no…