—I WANNA GET BETTER

 

…“In March, I’ll be rested, caught up and human.” Sylvia Plath

 

…I put a helmet on a helmet.

 

…“May we keep looking for beauty in unexpected places.” Sam Davis

 

…No one gets tired of hearing someone say they love you.

 

…If you say it’s poetry, it’s poetry.

 

…“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living.” Catherine Drinker Bowen

 

…I started collecting rejections again. Got nothing else to do.

 

… The thing I love and the thing you love can be completely different but sit side by side.

 

…I tried to pull up my sleeve and accidentally punched myself. Pretty sure I had it coming.

 

…We look at our faces like we don’t know who we are.

 

…The back stroke is the hardest one of all. Especially without water.

 

…I hear people get better with practice.

 

…Don’t forget to float.

 

…This is a game you should never bet on.

 

…“It’s so rare to have someone take care of you, to feel like nothing is going to run out.” Grant Faulkner

 

…“I would rather my suffering have a name, my pain have a face, a chance for familiarity.” Amy Marques

 

…The thing about a highway is its always going somewhere.

 

…Let’s do something we’ll regret.

 

…A gift is a hope.

 

…How does it feel to always get what you want? 

 

…“We’ve mistaken being in touch for being connected. It’s possible to text someone five times a day and still have little idea what’s happening in their life. It’s just noise we make at each other to maintain the illusion that we care.” Keisha Saunders-Waldron

 

…You’re a much better actor than me.

 

…It’s never as bad as it feels. 

 

…If you’re not prepared to listen to the answer, don’t ask.

 

…Change my meds, change the flight.

 

…Let’s just light one more sparkler.

 

…Don’t you dare touch the dial.

 

…Some expectations can be even worse than the real thing.

 

…Too late. The bullet got you.

 

--How was your day?

--Good.

--Same old, same old?

--I hate that expression.

--I hate when people just say “Good’ when I ask how their day was. 

 

…“Old people are not the other. They’re you. If you’re lucky.” Joan Price

 

“I hope you’ll come back someday, say something pretty to me. I want to hear something pretty. Even if you have to fake it.” Grant Faulkner

 

…You can shake your head, you can shake your ass, but that’s not changing anything.

 

…The US spent $11.3bn in just the first week of its military assault on Iran.

The cost of the first week of the Iran war would be more than enough to fully fund the Environmental Protection Agency this year (at $8.8bn), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ($9.2bn) or the National Cancer Institute ($7.4bn).

More than 3,000 people are believed to have been killed across Iran so far, the Pentagon says. A girls’ school in the south-eastern Iranian city of Minab lies in rubble, with about 175 children and teachers killed in a strike that the US is believed to have carried out. 

 

Pentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war, administration official says

 

…At a rally in Kentucky, Trump mentioned how he tried to avoid slipping down the soaking-wet stairs: “I do it very slowly...because nobody cares if you set a speed record.” He then said he “admired” former President Barack Obama’s ability to walk downstairs — but then disparaged him, claiming that Obama’s “bob down the stairs” was “unpresidential.”

 

 

….Let’s take a look at “unpresidential” (in just a week), shall we?:

 

--Donald Trump Nicknames White House Correspondent 'Maggot' and Threatens to Sue Her, Along with The New York Times

--News Alert: President Trump threatens Iran leaders: ‘Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today’

 

--From “Grand Theft Auto” to “SpongeBob SquarePants,” the White House has turned to memes from pop culture and video games to sell President Trump’s war with Iran

 

 

--A cellphone video captured Trump, who was visiting the Ford F-150 plant in Dearborn, twice mouthing “f--- you” as he pointed to someone calling up to him from the factory floor below. The president subsequently raised his middle finger toward the heckler as he continued walking. 

 

--In recent days, Trump has been road-testing attacks on Newsom’s dyslexia — which the governor recently wrote about in his new book — trying to portray Newsom as “a low IQ person” and “dumb.”

 

Trump has a history of seeking to define opponents — even Republicans — through repetition and ridicule, in an effort to distill political rivals into bite-sized caricatures.

During the 2016 Republican primary, he described Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) as “Lyin’ Ted” and Marco Rubio — who is now his secretary of State — as “Little Marco.”

During his 2016 race against Hillary Clinton, he dubbed her “Crooked Hillary.” During the 2020 and 2024 elections, he called rival Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe.” He called is 2024 presidential opponent, Kamala Harris, “dumb as a rock.”

 

 

--After Iran’s Kharg Island is demolished by missiles, Trump says US may hit Iran’s the island again ‘just for fun’

 

                               "Only twenty-one more years.”

…Last bit of “political” news and then I’ll be done for now—

This is how evil some in Isreal are, how little regard they have for the lives of anyone perceived to be their enemy somehow, even peace-loving protestors—

Senior Israeli officials have told U.S. diplomats that Iranian protesters will “get slaughtered” if they take to the streets against their government even as Israel publicly calls for a popular uprising, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post.

The document’s authenticity was verified by two State Department officials.

In a televised address on the first day of the attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country “will strike hard at the terror regime and create conditions that will allow the brave Iranian people to cast off the yoke of this murderous regime.”

 

…Here’s the thing—you have to stop on time.

 

…I’m not sure about this.

 

…Sometimes it’s best not to read back what you wrote.

 

…Dude, don’t fall anymore.

 

…Do you know what that is? Dangerous.

 

…Next month Willie Nelson releases his (true story, no typo) 159^th studio album.

 

…I think it’s bad juju to root against a friend, but someone needs to tell my “friend” that.

 

…Okay, well, I’ll fix it. I promise.

 

…I probably sigh more than any person alive. Don’t ask me why.

 

…Those trees are really shaking right now, doing the Bossa nova. If one comes down on me, I’m going to go with fate.

 

…You can find symbolism or signs anywhere, but reading them the right way is what matters. 

 

…If you’re whistling like that, in that way, to yourself, well, you might be in trouble.

 

...Maybe I should just turn in.

 

…I hate when it says there’s something there but there’s nothing there.

 

…I have no reason to complain, or whine, about anything. I really don’t. And I feel guilty when I do. I’m a first world country person. I have more than enough, way, way more than I ever thought I’d ever had. So why should I bitch when something is missing in life?

 

…I can’t cook, other than eggs or cold cereal. I admire people who can, and who actually like doing it, like my best friend, but isn’t it just easier to eat out or type in Uber Eats?

 

…Those trees are really rocking again. You can imagine them falling on you while you’re sleeping, or you can image them dancing. There’s almost always a choice.  

 

…I’m learning how important it is to be mindful, to be present in the moment, and yet there are moments when I still think—Fuck that.

 

…You can’t believe everything you think because if you did, like in my case, you’d be in big trouble.

 

…I work at being happy like some people work at being sad.

 

…If it’s 2 in the morning, 3 in the morning, 4 in the morning, and you still haven’t found what you’re looking for, it’s probably time to go back to sleep before someone thinks you’re insane.

 

…The thing about being up at 2am is no one judges you, no one cares.

 

…“I used to think it was silly or sappy to write down the things that I love. But once you start doing it, once you start deliberately taking time out of your day to write down things that are good, you start noticing them everywhere.” Melissa Kirsch

 

…A hurricane only holds together for so long.

 

…Just stay right here, dude. Don’t take another step.

 

…Good luck making sense of this.

 

…You won’t know what I mean unless you’ve been there, too. 

 

…Now I’m on a wire, no trick in my sleeve.

 

…Doesn’t this guitar sound so good?

 

…I don’t think I ever want to catch up to the letting go part.

 

…It was letting go of everything, but you.

 

…Well, it’s probably too late to knockoff a drug store, so might as well go to sleep.

 

… “And in case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening and good night.”