In case you can’t sleep because you’re the only other person who hates fireworks, I’ll tell you a bedtime story. It’s more of a cautionary tale. #storytimethread#cautionarytale
At Christmas time I wanted to do something special for my cats. Mac and Cheese have punctured my couch with their claws like it’s their job but everyone deserves presents. #evenjerksgetpresents
During my daily responsibility-avoidance section of the day I was looking at people doing things on Instagram and saw an ad for scratching post.
But this was not just any scratching post. It was shaped like a cactus and that’s the part that became irresistible because, honestly, who doesn’t want their house looking like a Don Pablos? #donpablos#forcats
The website said it would take like 6 weeks to get here but I decided I’d use this time to learn how to be patient. #lifeskills#patienceisavirtue
Finally the big day arrived. The 950th time I checked the tracking status, it told me it was ON MY PORCH! #bigday I sprinted to the door. The package was a bit smaller than I anticipated.
This is a picture of what I ordered:
Here is what I received on that long awaited day:
Yarn. I got yarn. Or twine. Or whatever the hell that is. But I can assure you that what it ISN’T is a cactus shaped scratching post. #notwhatiordered#wtfisthis
Wait. I thought the moral of the story was “don’t buy things from IG” but who knows, some could be legit maybe??...not sure... #isitallcrap
But if you do, just remember you might get a cactus shaped scratching post or you might end up with some twine in a bag. Prepare your poor, gentle souls for that. Just in case. #storytimeisover#classdismissed#iwishiknew#noonewarnedme
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Hey Philly! Can you please help Aiden out? He loves keeping our city clean and could really use some help! (Our bus stop is near the Wissahickon train station) @CleanPHL@philly311@PHLPlanDevelop@Mr4thDistrict
@PhilaStreets Can you help Aiden? It’s a main road so it wouldn’t even be out of the way for our sanitation workers to empty! 🗑
Keeping Philly clean isn’t a new passion of Aiden’s. Here he is last year with @anita_oh when @CBSPhilly interviewed him about it.
Time lapse video for this month’s @makeartthatsells assignment. To accompany Beth Kempton’s (@BethKempton) book, Wabi Sabi. To say I was caught off guard with the emotions that came to me while reading the excerpt and creating the piece is an understatement.
As I wrote each feeling on her body, I gave myself permission to go back to each of those places in my memory. Like a Rolodex of my life...a timeline of the things that made me ”me”. I didn’t regret or wish or “what if”. I just let each one be. Over and over.
Memories that I realized had never been given permission to just “be”. They had always awkwardly stood in place, holding heavy bags which rendered them weary and leathered, unwittingly taking energy from my here and my now.