Gretchen

why statewide elections matter for democrats in 4 photos!!! ⬇️

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In order to move from North Carolina in as safe a manner as possible I am relying on voter turnout maps and election results maps of NJ. It’s been eye opening. I did not do this for any other move we’ve had. This will be my sixth home purchase since 1995.

Black text on white background. It reads: With you, for you. WHO remains committed to health for all.

#HealthForAll

For everyone. Everywhere.

I’m struggling. I want to make rage against the system content about adoption but I don’t want to talk about it after I post except with fellow adoptees. That feels unfair and wrong. Mostly I want to get a job at Gofundme so I can nix the adoption begging. #abolishadoption #adoptioniswrong

When I was 15 and on my little high school’s literary magazine staff I thought I was a good enough writer to send in a short story to The New Yorker. I wish I still had that rejection letter or the short story. #rejection

Advocates Fight for Adoptee Birth Certificate Access in Georgia Under current Georgia law, original birth records are “sealed and locked” once an adoption is finalized. A bill expected to this year aims to change that.

The work for adoptee rights and equality in Georgia continues imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

Moving back North from the South is actually wild as we start the planning of everything involved with selling a house and buying in another state. Already #overwhelmed #returningtoBlue

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Jefferson Griffin can’t take a hint. He & the GOP still believe 60k voices should be silenced! Check if your vote is being challenged at ncdp.org/challenged

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Is there a “prefer strangers” option here? I only like about ten of the people I know in real life anymore. #grouchy ahahaha why?! Why am I like this? Is this the perpetual identity crisis of the #adoption? I was someone on FB, another on IG, born anew on TT and phoenixed here in TT ash. NewAgeFOG?

Distracting myself on Tt means I’m using the new music that’s on my FYP and old skate footage trying to match the vibe. #rollerskate I’m doing the skate daily for 365 days so not everyday is post worthy so I’m getting around the boredom. 😂 #365challenge I have not forgotten the world is burning.

Just a reminder, apropos of nothing going on today, that you can mute words here on bluesky and set timeframes for when they will be unmuted. 💙

I don’t want the wrong people here and this tends to weed them out quickly 🩵💙

The only strategy for surviving is going non-contact. Not just with Drmpfrs but with all of it. I know what’s coming. And what’s coming has already happened in some sense. Done. Sleep well, what’s left of a sweeter, happier, gentler America, falling softly to the ground like ash in a snowfall.

Awwww 🦅

Go Birds! 🦅🦅🦅 #FlyEaglesFly

Lorrrrd. 🙄🫣

Good morning! This is your reminder to support your local library! Get your card and see what resources you have access to from programs and events to seed libraries, maker spaces and digital resources. Libraries are more than *just* books. (Although books are very lovely!)

Cats and skates. Cats and skates. Cats and skates. My other mantra is: I am not the problem. And this morning at the beach: I am a tiny grain of sand and we are all tumbling against the tide together. #sand #ocean #cats #skates #problems #bluesky

No offense but I simply have the best most cutest perfect cat

My cat is offended. Please apologize immediately to Bunsen, he doesn’t want to get his twin brother Beaker involved. #tuxedobeef

Mary Oliver bringing truth this morning.
@maryoliverdaily.bsky.social

Those are so charming!!!

Thank you :) I went back to sleep which seemed only rational

4:30am Carolina Beach Hampton Inn, I’m wide awake, husband is blissfully sleeping. It’s quiet coffee on the balcony time. I’m only now looking at the “coffee station” in the room and noticing that it’s only decaf. This feels evil after I just tried to open a shut down TT app.

The nights at the #rink in #raleigh 🌟

It is hard to know I started in this world as a baby Jane Doe. It eats away at me some days, leaving me raw, harmed, angry and some days it’s like a whisper of warm air on a warm day. I don’t really have words for the feelings inside. Feelings are not paragraphs. #sad #notsad #joy #notjoy #adoption

The pottery: tiny bowls with everyone’s initials for slices or little ingredients for cooking 🥰 #pottery #littlebowls