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Idk what I'm writing, but I just gotta write something. Maybe asking for advice, but idk. My Grandma just died at the beginning of the year. I've had aunts and uncles pass in the last two years, but this is the very first immediate family member to have passed, and I don't know what to do or how to operate. I know grief is a weird animal and despite having read a lot about it and how to handle it, this is the first time that I've had to look it in the eye. I held her hand and stroke her hair. We sang songs around her that would comfort her and kissed her brow. From the outside it looked like a good death. I wouldn't mind it.

We're now slowly distributing her belongings and taking care of her final affairs. She as always saying how she was disappointed in herself that she didn't have anything to leave her children and grandchildren. That isn't true though. We have pictures, memories. Clothes that smell like her that will be made into bears. Jewelry that she wore. Nothing valuable but all extremely sentimental. Hell, I remembered a box of polished pebbles that I begged to play with when I went to her house. A small porcelain pig that I played with. She also gave us the best gift of all of being debt free and fully prepared for the end. That has helped my mother and aunt in their grief immensely.

I just....I don't know what you do with that hole. This is the first person that I interacted with weekly and almost daily, whom is just gone now. Her smiles are just in pictures now and unless I stumble upon videos, her raspy voice saying "I love you, baby" will be in my memories alone.

We're not selling the house yet and in fact my mom and aunt want me to move in to help renovate. How do you deal. I guess just one day at a time.

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Helaena Targaryen – House of the Dragon – 2.01 The Last Day of Pompeii by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833

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Block any account that tells you not to vote.

You don’t need to waste your time investigating whether they are a bot or a psy-op or a misinformed rube. It doesn’t matter. Either way, they add no value to your dashboard. Block and move on.

Then make a plan for Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Register, confirm you’re still registered, check your voting location or register to vote absentee or by mail.

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This. I live in one of those 'flyover states' and the more I stay the more I love. It's getting more unsafe by the day but I was born and raised here. My soul is here and here it shall stay.

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… I just needed an excuse to draw cursed cat Alastor before it dies out

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I wrote a silly little article about how you should consider planting your yard with native grasses and plants thinking it would just take up filler space in the local newspaper and people liked it enough to comment nice things on it.

So if you think what you're doing is insignificant just know that someone out there will dig it.

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every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

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Sunshine

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black fallow deer seen in the Barycz Valley - Landscape Park in Poland

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I was a lifeguard at this place at the time and this happened in the early morning hours when I WAS ON WATCH for ray feedings! I was SO HAPPY that I was able to watch from afar. I waited for moooooooonths as that ray got bigger and bigger. This was truly a fun time to watch the vets deliver those pups! The daddy was Apollo, the mom was Nerina and the pups names were Jupiter and Juno!

Marine life specialists noticed a spotted eagle ray mother was having trouble and helped her deliver two baby rays 

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Variegated Mantella (Mantella baroni), family Mantellidae, Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar

Poisonous.

photograph by Charles J. Sharp

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HB 3216 in Oklahoma right now is in the works and it aims to put anyone that has an abortion on a list and in the methods of causing abortion they list contraception that stops an egg from implanting on the uterus wall. This includes IUDs and the Plan B pill. The bills to take away birth control are already in the works and I will be in prison or six feet under if I'm told that I have to remove my birth control or be on a fucking list. https://legiscan.com/OK/bill/HB3216/2024

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leave the answers in the tags

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A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

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In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.