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California poppies against a dry, flattened, brown grasses

Ah, high summer in California, when all the wild grasses dry up and turn brown—that’s when the poppies really get to POP

In the background, a volunteer tends to a bonsai tree. In the foreground, paving stones form a curve.

If you live near Oakland, this is your reminder that we have an amazing bonsai garden located inside the Gardens at Lake Merritt and that one of the trees has been alive since Lincoln’s time.

LOLZ in GenX

Small white Chihuahua oversees the construction of a pre-fabricated piece of furniture

Candy likes to oversee my work for quality. She is unimpressed with the one screw I stripped and my need to drill better placed new holes using a power tool. 2/10

Consider this your Chihuahua amuse bouche amidst all the doom and gloom of the news

Chihuahua, leaned back with ears back, sticking its tiny pink tongue out

This week calls for a super blep

I’m 53 years old and I still can’t remember whether or not I lose an hour or gain an hour in the Spring. Can’t we end the tyranny of Daylight Savings already?

The Cure’s “Friday I’m in Love” for Nihilists I don’t care if Monday’s blue. God is dead. Or if Tuesday is utterly desaturated to the point where all choice is arbitrary, Wednesday too. Thursda...

🎶 I don’t care if Monday's blue. God is dead.

Or if Tuesday is utterly desaturated to the point where all choice is arbitrary, Wednesday too.

Thursday, I will not make an effort to conjure you in my thoughts. I find you stupid and weak.

It’s Friday, I’m in love. 🎶

Tiny white Chihuahua wrapped in a white blanket stares directly at the camera

This shitty week calls for a Chihuahua photo. She has no idea that democracy is burning. She managed to steal a small piece of chicken off my plate and therefore everything is perfect

2016 election

Fair warning, this is a messy personal playlist that sprung from Thatcher era songs to comfort me for the 2016 election—unfortunately it has become relevent again, so I’m sharing it AGAIN #WhichSideAreYouOn

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Small terrier mix dog in a hoodie sitting crossed legged on a black floral blanket

This is Ellie. She enjoys a pre dog smelled up blanket, but it still took her 15 minutes to soften the pile and get comfy

The dog is struggling to understand the new job/sitting at a desk bs that is occurring each morning. I found that by pooling the blanket down around my feet, she can comfort herself by leaning against my legs

I need to watch this at least once a year to remember that love and joy still exists

Based on the Christmas movies that Netflix is dumping in front of me, I now know that there is a completely alien-to-me beauty aesthetic out there is the inland United States

Have you read Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers? It fits your pattern and I thought it was such a beautiful read—heavy, but beautiful

Finally started watching You. Really not helping my desire for ever dating again. Or for my friends to ever date again. Or for men

I’ve managed to make my insta a non-stop chihuahua photopalooza—might as well start posting in here now