May 11 - Daisy May 16 - Jasmine #NostrArtstrMay2025 Took a break, and was finding it hard to get back into it. So with the Jasmine, switching to a cartoon style. 😋 Cue song: Livin’ on a Prayer (whoaa we’re halfway there)

#Amphibia Season 2 finale

oh my gourd … #Amphibia Season 2 finale

And finally, a funny take on trauma … 😱@comedycentraloriginals “If you experience fear, you’re s**t in luck.” 🍀

“There’s nobody who gets out of life without heartbreak. There’s nobody who can stand at 70 and 80 and feel healed or feel that they’re in the healing journey who doesn’t try to process forgiveness… universal heartbreak … I don’t want hate or anger, in my body, towards another person. I don’t want that. At All.” #emotionaltrauma #mental health #emotionalsafety #MariaShriver #OprahWinfrey I learned: Maria Shriver’s dad had Alzheimers. Alzheimer’s occurs at a high rate, and is actually more common in women, but there is a lack of research specifically about women’s brains. My realization: Privilege is not ‘just’ privilege. It comes with its own challenges and traumas, because of the human condition. Maria Shriver is 69 years old. Oprah Winfrey is 71 years old. I write down their ages because I’m amazed by their painful experiences and how they talk it, which took place over that much time. Maybe one way to define ‘the human condition’ is that everyone lives with emotional pain, which is always changing, and is always ‘there’ in some way. 56:25, “I wrote it because I wanted people to know that their heartbreak does not define them, that they can survive … heal … find their way home to themselves … They can look at their life with a deep appreciation, all of it. Everything that happened to them. They can look at the people in their life with love and appreciation.” - Maria Shriver ‘… I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.’ - Emily Dickinson

< Maria Shriver and Oprah Winfrey - BFFs > I’ve been working through some trauma, and rediscovering the Oprah show via Youtube has been a boon. I was watching a lofi video called “Waffle’s forest book nook”, when an ‘ad’ came on. It was Oprah’s book club featuring Ocean Vuong and his latest book, ‘Emperor of Gladness’. A link to skip the ad was in the lower right hand corner, and I never clicked it. Watched the whole 52 minute interview. Felt amazed. Thank you 💝 #OprahWinfrey #OceanVuong #MariaShriver Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: God-Giving Every existence in nature, every existence in the human world, every cultural work that we create, is something which was given, or is being given to us, relatively speaking. But as everything is originally one, we are, in actuality, giving out everything. Moment after moment we are creating something, and this is the joy of our life. Dogen-zenji said, “To give is non-attachment.” That is, just not to attach to anything is to give. It does not matter what is given. To give a penny or a piece of leaf … to give one line, or even one word of teaching … If given in the spirit of non-attachment, the material offering and the teaching offering have the same value. With the right spirit, all that we do, all that we create is … ‘in each step of the way, the other shore (wisdom) is actually reached’. According to Christianity, every existence in nature is something which was created for or given to us by God. That is the perfect idea of giving. But if you think that God created humans, and that you are somehow separate from God, you are liable to think you have the ability to create something separate, something not given by God. For instance, we create airplanes and highways. And when we repeat, “I create, I create, I create,” soon we forget who is actually the “I” which creates the various things; we soon forget about God. This is the danger of human culture. Actually, to create with the “big I” is to give; we cannot create and own what we create for ourselves since everything was created by God. This point should not be forgotten.

this is fun. Ok that’s enough for now. Inspired by #amphibia

First time making a meme. Never did it before. Inspired by #theowlhouse

I think the function of “mute for 24 hours” has stopped working. I still see the posts in the home feed… ☹️ @Damus #asknostr

Reminder to reread

Reminder to rewatch

asked: what does it mean to be managed out by a boss? It was an unpleasant and stressful experience. But part of it was, once I learned about this “managing out” strategy, that there is a word for this treatment, I basically refused to just quit my job. I was like, no, you are just going to fire me then. Because I think it’s wrong to use this “managing out” strategy. I think especially because I worked at an elementary school literally next to my apartment, and had already spent that first year bonding with some of the kids I was seeing. Then, it was another year or two before I knew what was going on, then COVID happened, and we switched to remote learning… so timing-wise, several things contributed to me staying for the whole 5 years of the ‘probationary period’.

It’s another rainy day, so I’m going to listen to lofi and think about things.