Josh Nelson

I’m back in my hometown today to bury an aunt, so naturally I’m pondering our own mortality and what it means to leave a legacy. I know grief is the price we pay for love, but it seems cruel to force someone to exist just to one day not.

I’m sure I’ll vacillate on this.

Physically, I am in front of my computer attempting to finish a paper. Mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, though, I'm in the corner watching you kiss her.

Rare breakfast date with @boarbear.bsky.social

Spotify affirms very clearly this one truth: no matter where I go or what I do, I will always just be redneck trash.

I was convinced that everyone hated my guts, but as it turns out, I was just hungry. Carry on.

The way that I somtimes forget I have an accent but then hear myself and realize I sound like one of the Hillbilly Bears.

That poor baby!

Awww skeet skeet

You think you know me, but then a Cher song comes on. Mama, you never knew me.

*deep inhale*

AND YOU WERE TOSSIN’ ME THE CAR KEYS

Happy Pride Month to my homophobic coworkers! We’re about to have so much fun.

Bésame Alejandro Sanz, Shakira · Bésame · Song · 2025

¡Qué temazo! ¡¿Y ese aullido al final?! Ay, por favorrrrr. No veo la hora de ir al concierto de esta leyenda junto a Jade Emmons. ¡Falta nada más una semana! Casi no aguanto la espera.

open.spotify.com/track/0TsqrY...

What?

La reine de notre maison.

This is the weirdest timeline.

Sometimes you feel like you were born just plain white trash but Fancy is your name, ya know?

In the words of Taylor Swift, “Sorry, I can’t see facts through all of my fury.”

Anger can be a healthy emotion. It can let us know when something is wrong, when a boundary has been crossed. At best, it can spur us to change.

But when I tell you that I just feel eaten up with it right now, I mean it. I don’t know where to channel it.

I’ve been engaging a CBT technique in which you name and sort of personify the nagging internal voice who only seeks to tear down and sabotage things. Mine is called “Roberta,” and I have to say it’s been helpful to name it and say something like, “Omg. Give it a rest, Roberta.”

Give it a shot.

I was listening to a meditative playlist on shuffle. While scrolling FB, this Cass Elliot song starts playing. It’s nowhere on the playlist. I’ve never heard it before. I can’t recreate it.

I’m no stranger to the strange, but what is happening?

Stumbled across this gem while cleaning, and this is where it all started, folks. I read so many of these in grade school. That truly explains so much about me as an adult.

A very strange package arrived today.

Image of a hand holding a coffee cup surrounded by fire; text: ‘twas the strike before Christmas, Dec. 20-24th

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨

Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

I feel so seen. Thank you for this.

(I'm still learning not to compare myself to others who had support. It's hard. 💔)

$170 STILL NEEDED!!
Anything helps!!
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I had hot pot for the first time tonight, and let me tell you, reader, I am on fire.

Frankly, 2021 almost killed me due to the blows that life kept throwing that culminated in a very bizarre combo in December that year.

This time of year is still a sore spot sometimes, but here we are, still persisting like a potato or something. I don't know.

Hug your pals.

STILL $480 to go, STILL desperately needed!!
ANYTHING helps! Thank you!
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