Cinse Bonino

timely post

I woke this morning from a dream… A baby disappeared as I was minding it in my childhood home.

#dementia #death #mothers #forgiveness #release #narcissism

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For the love of God, Sally, stop… …asking me what I have planned for the weekend.

#life #joy #expectations #dementia #parenting #truth #merit

hope a twenty dollar bill found

#hope

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Dear New Yorkers,
Do it! Vote for
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Do it for NYC.
Do it for the whole country.
Love,
a concerned neighbor in Vermont

a Saturday list… I spilled hot tea on my knuckles at the teahouse.

#tea #kindness #bread #breakfast #cafes #age #change #joy #chestnuts #grace #compassion #lists #saturdays

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small girl in communion dress looks up at mother with distrust

joy to our world

as a child I felt safe
sometimes loved
often unheard or
disbelieved but I
always felt joy was
my invisible security
blanket it still works

Cinse Bonino
2025

#childhood #childhoodtrauma #joy #poetry

#shoes #intentions #selfawareness #choices #authenticity #inktober #inktober2025

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#indigenousrights

"We honor the low income people who lived in the housing we razed to create this beautiful and upscale downtown mall. Though we didn't compensate them, in fact we were abusive to them, we remember them today." There, see how stupid this sounds? We must do more than remember.

I choose to live

on the edges
of this timeline in the blots
and smudges bleeding from
the sides I appreciate the
conveniences of science
and commerce but I have
traded money for time realizing
too many in the rat race have
hungry teeth

Cinse Bonino
2025

#selfawareness #authentic #intention

seen today...

#resist

This morning, as I waited at the bus stop to go meet two friends for breakfast in a small town nearby, the moon was setting in front of me and I could feel the warmth of the rising sun on my back. I felt so lucky.

#grateful

Oh, that makes my heart glad. Thank you.

demented dreams

my mother always
breaks the fourth wall
even now with so little
energy she still plays
to the crowd…
“she’s such a good
person” - she talks
about me not to me
it feels like love anyway

Cinse Bonino
2025

#dementia #selfawareness #love #relationships #mothers #narcissism

Today is my father's death day. My father didn't save my life but he saved my soul. I see him every time I look at how my son loves. Thanks, Daddio, for everything. #fatherslove

fishing

not for compliments
not as a passtime
not for sport
not as a hobby
not allowed

Cinse Bonino
2025

#cruelty

They've decided anyone who is not part of their group is subhuman and does not deserve to be treated humanely, and that anyone who disagrees with them should be punished. They lie constantly and only quote scripture and US laws and protocols if it benefits them. Unconscionable and despicable.

new theory I wonder

@bsky.app new theory

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#aging #theotherplace #awareness #sleep

The Wrong Smoking Gun I read a short piece in the “New York Times” today (10 -1-2025) about how one school attempted to prevent a future shooting by beginning to work with a student who “pointed his finger like a gun and t...

@bsky.app #bullying #toxicbehavior #blame #awareness #homelessness #substanceabuse #systemicissues #society #schoolshootings #smokingguns

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A Partial Monday List A Partial Monday List

#adayinthelife #dailylife #lists #joy #gratitude

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even now

it always feels as if
the moon is watching
over me at night even
now when I no longer
need it to protect me

Cinse Bonino
2025

#moon #protection #selfawareness

A Glutton for Punishment I went up to the potluck buffet.

#youcansayno #toomuch #whatsonyourplate #myplateisfull #toomuchtocarry #selfawareness

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I'm So Over Easy Go with whose flow?

#takeiteasy #bullies #listening #landlords #problemsolving #substance #livedeeply #gowiththeflow #plumbing

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@bsky.app

sailing on the friend ship people aren’t perfect

#friends #fears #grace #imperfectlyperfect #selfawareness #trust

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gains and losses

I gained ten pounds
when my sister died
I told my mother I knew
how heavy my grief was

I am pre mourning my
mother’s dementia makes
her unavailable to me
I’ve already put on more
than ten additional pounds

this makes sense because
there’s so much more to carry

Cinse Bonino

Got Change? I often take a one-hour walk around the edges of my little town.

@bsky.app #uncertainty #awareness #personalgrowth #growth #change

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Hello? Can I hear me now? Many of us look for a sign, or for some kind of message, when we have a difficult choice to make or want reassure ourselves that things will turn out alright.

#wellbeing #selfawareness #processingemotions

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Maybe This is What “We’re all Winners” Really Means When I’m old… Wait!

#selfawareness #winning #thegoodlife #joy #aging #now

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Join Me? It’s late.

#resist #awareness #joy #love #kindness #beinghuman

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