Meshell Ndegeocello- Oysters 

Oliver devoted a segment to several unusual commencement addresses this year, but gave special attention to D'Y.. 

🙄🤦🏻‍♀️🤨🤣

Sitting in my cottage, alone for the first night. I could, since I have time, mull all the troubles left behind, but that would defeat the purpose of having this place. Besides, now that I'm finally here and quieted, I sense that much of my trouble is just distraction(s) I have generated for myself so that the deeper currents can't sweep me away. 

"Queen of Pents, cottage goddess"

https://youtu.be/LIIDh-qI9oI?feature=shared

smib

"still life with cat"

I want a cigarette.

I'm trying to remember/understand why exactly that old grandparental cottage meant so much to me. Why I was so bereft to lose it. Like a lover who really understood me. Then was gone, just like that. 

I could not accept that loss. 

So, I waited it out. 

It was mostly the people, not the place, of course. But it was also the place, the smell of it. And the space, theirs but also all of ours, the ace in the hole, a thing owned outright (safe), rare for us who bought mostly on "lay away".

When I die, I'll give the cottage to them *in trust*, no selling the one thing we/you actually own in full, never again for as long as memory of who I was remains. No matter how hard pressed, or maybe rich and no longer interested, I don't care anywhichway, if you're a descendent of mine by blood or by accumulation, you will get one piece of me guaranteed, and/but that one piece will only be of any value to you if you remember why it was.

s.m.i.b.

while I'm down (acoustic)

Ears ❤️

look, a spot for each of my ex's including the next one - Nebraska didn't think that was funny 🤣

Accessibility (i.e. Butterknife) features installed @ cottage - digging that slope down to level was brutal 😵‍💫 and they bitched and moaned but 🤷🏻‍♀️. Everyone still remembers the pond = no sense trying to resist when I'm holding a shovel. And indeed it could and did get done.

john craigie - while I'm down (current fave booty shaker)

matt anderson - only an island  

The sexdoll couldn't pronounce the school's name 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ 

woulda been more exciting if he'd died, but he was just sleepy 

A red dot would maybe be helpful 🤔 

t(gif)ired

kaia kater - "burn my name into your ___"

squirrelpox, which grays aren't supposed to get sick from as carriers only, but what I thought was an injured baby was in fact a very sick adult

First the goose, now this, the spca wildlife peeps know me (not a good thing)

and baby cardinals all fledged today, coincidentally - that guy is the dufus 🤦🏻‍♀️ 

very alive

Right back to it.