bookish; tweets (and writes) about education, veterans' issues, culture and general fascinations. my opinions are mine. she/her/hers
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Rebecca Forbes retweeted
Once when I was young, around 8 or so, we had a garage sale. My siblings and I were killing time riding our bikes along the sidewalk and this guy stopped in. But he wasn't there to buy anything.
He went up to my mom, introduced himself and said he'd stopped because he saw us...
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eric and i get married (again) in two days, and here’s an idea (that eric had!) that you can steal for your wedding!
we decided against getting registered, and are asking all our guests to bring a copy of their favorite book for our at home library room 📚
ALT A screenshot of a website with text that says: We do not have a registry. Instead, we’re asking our guests to bring a copy of their favorite book and write in the opening page why the book is meaningful to them. We’re building a library room at our home, and the books gifted to us will go there.
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Two weeks ago, I had four precious 12-year-old girls, including my daughter, with me at the county fair. They were getting blue Icees and corndogs for the walk to the car and ride home. (1/21)
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For the first time in forever, 11-year-old Zoe Tapley met a Disney princess with whom she was able to communicate on her own using ASL. Watch the sweet moment with Princess Anna from 'Frozen,' which took place at Disneyland 🥺👑
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Veterans around the country are making their voices heard. @SenToomey and his colleagues who are believing his lies need to listen to the veterans themselves and vote YES on the #PACTAct
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They fight to eliminate disease, reduce workplace injuries, and ensure clean water and better sanitation, yet public health workers trying to keep us safe face a lack of infrastructure and funding, and are even targeted with hate mail from the public just for doing their job.
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This is beyond out of bounds. This behavior has no place in our politics. None. We’ve got to clean house of people like this doing stuff like this. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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French newspaper Le Monde: "If there is any American exceptionalism, it is to tolerate the fact that schools in the United States are regularly transformed into bloody shooting ranges...Indeed, America is killing itself & the Republican Party is looking the other way..."
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Children. Children with their whole lives ahead of them, with hopes and dreams and favorite colors, with families who loved them, families whose lives are forever devastated. Children who perhaps were born around or after the Sandy Hook shooting. More children, senselessly gone.
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I stayed at someone’s house last week and they have a cat. And I never knew this but, when you go to sleep… cats just wander about the house catting all night? You can’t “put a cat to bed”?! The cat just… gets the house for a while?! Fucking nuts.
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This tweet got some (major) backlash. The apology thread that followed was a good example of a good apology. Worth reading:
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Education isn’t memorizing that Hitler killed 6 million Jews. Education is understanding how millions of ordinary Germans were convinced that it was required. Real education is learning how to spot the signs of history repeating itself. We must never forget what hate does to us.
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This man was forced to give his dog to Humane Society due to lengthy hospital stay. This nurse went to the shelter and adopted his dog. She brings him to visit daily & will return him as soon as the man is released! Be the light in this world, even through the dark times ❤️
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“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
- Vincent Van Gogh
#SundayMorning
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This year’s @ProjectRock Vets Day collection supports the incredible @TMFoundation. Named after 1st Lt Travis Manion, they develop programs to empower veterans & families of the fallen. Join us in supporting the org here: projectrock.online/djvd
#ForTheHeroes
@UnderArmour
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A reminder for vets/military families out there: If today's #Afghanistan news is overwhelming you, there are resources out there that can help militarytimes.com/flashpoint…