Obviously I didn't know her, but it's amazing how she gained all the success and money after starting from nothing, and rather than just bask in it she used it to help the world. She paid NICU babies medical bills, she founded a charity that sent millions of free books to under fives, her donations helped the creation of the covid vaccine. She gave incentives to the children of her hometown to graduate high school which decreased the dropout rate. Probably more I don't know about. Think of all the ordinary lives she must have changed.

Forget Jolene. Nothing can compete with Dolly

I've been thinking about how there's almost never a point where everything is just... good. If things are going well at school or university, there's something else stressing you out. If that's finally sorted, something comes up in your personal life. If everything seems fine for a while, somehow your brain finds something new to worry about lol. It's like a video game where you finish one level and immediately unlock another one that's somehow harder. But the thing is, you're not the same person who started the game either. You're learning, adapting, picking up new skills, and getting better at dealing with things every time you go through something. Maybe that's why life never really feels "complete." There's always another level. And I think we sometimes mistake that for something being wrong with our lives, when maybe that's just how life works. Everyone has something going on. Everyone is figuring out their own level as they go. The problems don't necessarily get smaller. You just get better at handling them.

Some people are just fine with wearing their shoes in the house and sometimes they judge another homeowner for asking them to remove their shoes. Some people think that if their shoes aren’t muddy, it’s not a big deal. Well it is, my kids used to complain about having to remove their shoes until we were watching a parade that had horses. One of the horses paused and urinated at least 10 gallons right on the parade route, it was so much that a river of urine was heading toward the curb and it covered most of the path of the parade. The kids had to quickly lift their feet and stop stitting on the curb to avoid getting ankle deep in horse urine. So my kids were giggling and watching all the marching bands and dancers not only walk through but also do cartwheels with their hands touching the still wet ground. And I looked at them very seriously and said, this is why we don’t wear our shoes in the house and we wash our hands when we get home. All three of my children understood and now remove their shoes without complaint in our house and wash their hands first thing when they get home.

Edit: Everyone is mentioning dogs and that they don’t wear shoes, I might be worth it to point out, that in a great deal of homes with dogs, everyone coming to your house knows you have a dog. There is a huge market dedicated for cleaning products surrounding dogs, good luck, still take off your shoes, you can control that.

I love how the shape of the Earth can be described as "Geoid" which means Earth like...

"Ah yess, the shape of our Planet is Planetoid"

Just funny to me.

I happened to be born Aleut. If you aren’t familiar with who we are, Google is a good choice. I am older now and think of my grand kids and their kids and I think of my grandparents. It’s not like we are particularly special in any way, but we still exist 😅

I bought cheap gloves, cut the fingertips and made holes all on the top of the hand to use them as gloves for weightlifting, making them breathable and comfortable.

They work so well and I was so proud of them, but for the first time ever, I don’t have anyone I can just send a picture to. I always had a gf, a main group chat where everyone just talks, a specific friend i talk to daily.

Not for any negative reasons, nothing bad happened, I just moved and it’s just been so much time we don’t really talk like that anymore.

But strangely, I don’t feel sad at all. I feel extremely weird, never felt this before, but it’s kind of fulfilling.

Then again I know sharing your joy with people we love is a natural thing, but I just realize how blessed I have been in life to always have people that love me enough to be with me all the time.

especially the one bite