—YOU’VE BEEN SKIMMING FROM THE TOP AGAIN

 

…I think I may be telling the truth too much lately. Not everyone wants to hear the truth.

 

…It seems stupid when you hear it, and silly when you say it, but really, You do the best you can and that’s all you can do.

 

…You can’t die when you’re laughing.

 

…Life’s a lot more fun when you find the next circus.

 

…It seemed so simple then, even though we didn’t know it wasn’t.

 

…“I think that when I’m falling, I need to know that, if I were to hold out my hand, someone would be there to take it.” Jamy Bond

 

…I guess we all hold onto emotional stuff that would be better thrown away.

 

…Late, and always due.

 

…If I could tell you how this feels for me, I would.

 

…When the door is open, you have to run through it.

 

…It’s incredibly hard to believe there are still 44%--

In the NBC News poll, 44 percent said they either “strongly” or “somewhat” backed Trump’s job performance, down from 47 percent in March 2025. Fifty-four percent of poll respondents said they were “strongly” or “somewhat” not in favor of his job performance, up from 51 percent last year.

 

...We. Are. Being. Lied. To.  

 

…We can cut badly needed social programs, but hey, when it comes to a pop-up war, who cares about how much it costs?

Early Iran strikes cost $5.6 billion in munitions in first two days of war, Pentagon estimates

The Trump administration also is expected to send Congress a supplemental defense budget request as soon as this week — potentially totaling tens of billions of dollars — to help sustain its campaign, officials said.

 

 

…. Pentagon says about 140 troops wounded, 8 severely, in war with Iran

 

… U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows

The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

 

…Fuck that guy.

 

…You gotta love a guy who is so Christ-like:

Trump tells Latin American leaders “I'm not learning your damn language.”

 

…U.S. was only country in a worldwide survey to say most fellow citizens are bad people

A striking survey released Thursday finds that 53 percent of American adults describe the morality and ethics of their fellow citizens as “bad” (somewhat bad or very bad). In the 24 other countries polled by Pew Research Center, most people said other residents there are somewhat good or good.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is Canada, where Pew found that 92 percent of people say their fellow Canadians are good, while just 7 percent say they’re bad.

 

 

…A couple of cows were smoking pot and playing poker.

    The steaks were high.

 

--Why do we see two different stories?

--Because you’re always wrong.

 

…Anymore, it’s a lot to expect someone to reply.

 

… "In a way we are more whole when something in us is broken." Steve Leder

 

…There’s no right or wrong way to say Hello.

 

…God knows your life is on the brink, and your therapist's well-fed. --Harry Styles

 

…After lunch on Monday, I saw an eagle in Everett and wondered if that was Pete out for a stroll.

 

…It’s hard to know better when you don’t know what you should know. 

 

…“It’s miraculous how normal you can seem on the outside when on the inside you’re nothing but floating shreds and itty battered bits of sawdust.” Jamy Bond

 

…SHOOTING REPORTED LESS THAN .9 MILES FROM YOUR HOME

 

…ARSON REPORTED LESS THAN 6.7 MILES FROM YOUR HOME

 

 

“There’s always something in between—skin, stories, worries, hopes, battles, defeats. Touching is trying to touch and never quite touching.” Scott Garson

 

We get farther and farther away from our ankles the older we get.   

 

--How can I be sure this is true love?

--Do you think this kind of thing happens every day?

   -- The Princess Bride 

 

…Keep your shirt on. Let me write some more.

 

…70 percent water makes sense when you can’t make sense of anything else.

 

…It’s better than a kick in the head. 

 

…I’m going to do more stupid things. Even now, I am.

 

…For the record, I’m flunking technology, math, science and anything have to do with automotives or handyman repairs.

 

…“As you get older, you need your longtime friends more than you ever thought you would.” Billy Crystal

 

…Conversations tend to end the way they begin.

 

       “Because 

 I have known despair 

    I value hope 

         Because 

  I have tasted frustration 

       I value fulfillment 

          Because  

   I have been lonely 

       I value love.”

              --Leonard Nimoy

 

…I can’t even begin to remember how much I’ve forgotten.

 

…But I did forget how good that feels—winning at something.

 

…Somehow, I forgot yesterday was yesterday.

 

…Some People I actually talked to at AWP:

 

Robert Vaughaun     Kelli Short-Borges    Joani Reese

Amy Marquez           Francine Witte          Michelle Ross

Kim Chinquee           Scott Garson              Jamy Bond        

Brett Pribble              Annie Pluto                Michael McGinnis

Tommy Dean             Josh Gaines                Benjamin Drevlow

Kelli Agodon              Ellen Weeren             Ellyn Reese Fautsch

Matt Bell                    Aaron Burch              John Woodward

Rae Cline                   Michael Martone      Vallie Lynn Watson

Alina Stefanescu        Luke Rolfes                Angela Woodward

Sarah Chavez            Helen Rye                  Michael Czyzniejewski

Chris Allen                Gloria Mindock         Renuka Raghavan

Kim Magowan           Dylan Kreiger            Stephany Austin

Sarah Lippman         Nicholad Freeman    Melissa Flores Anderson

Brenna Kischuk        Chelsea Stickel          Kathryn Silver-Hajo

Grant Faulkner         Sarah Freligh            Drew Coomer            

Exodus Brownlow     Thaddeus Rutowski  Ki Russell

Andrew Bertaina      Linda Wastila            Dawn Steffler   

Tara Whitehead Stillman                             Benjamin Niespodziany

Robert James Russell                                   Kelly Foster Lundquist

Avitus Carle              Kenning JP Garcia   Roberto Carlos Garola

Natalia Trevino                  Julie Bouwsma          Lee Desrosiers

EC Lawrence             Bronson Lemer         Lindsey Royce

Chelsea Stickle          Janee Baugher           Kristen Millares Young

Bronson Lemer         Ellen Weeren             Melissa Llanes Brownlee