… So I said, “I don’t understand why people are praying for the Pope. Isn’t he the closest person to God on earth? If even the Pope needs backup prayers, then the rest of us are fucked. Disastrously, phenomenally fucked.”
Why you reppin’ for the wrong team Pope?
It’s Friday, yo!
Questions of the Day
- If I start calling them unhoused, will mental help, addiction counselling, and housing appear faster than Trump can mispronounce anonymous? If so, sign me up. Otherwise, I’ll keep calling them homeless.
I understand that language changes, and as a writer, I recognize how important it is to choose the right words, but this one feels meaningless. Whether I am unhoused or homeless, I still have no place to live. And HOMEless feels humanitarian; unhoused is impersonal.
- Am I too old to be sex trafficked? If so, who can I sue for discrimination?
It’s hard to believe traffickers don’t have any clients who are interested in women over 50. What nonsense! This could be my way to lasting companionship.
This post is short because I got my tetanus shot earlier this week, and I was feeling better, but after a Thursday evening workout, my arm hurt severely again. Once I’m done talking to you, I go down to lie in my bed.
By the way, I’m excited to see the Bob Dylan movie; it has rekindled my desire for songwriting. As I explore songwriting, I feel it will improve my poetry and storytelling too. Win-win!
Matcha MCT Oil Art Interlude
Hey! Who said that?
The quote is from The American Embassy, a short story from The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, an award-winning and ridiculously talented writer (duh). Her books have won many awards, and if you haven’t read Half of a Yellow Sun, do it!
From the Book
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into thirty languages and has appeared in various publications, including The O. Henry Prize Stories 2003, The New Yorker, Granta, the Financial Times, and Zoetrope.
Her most recent novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the Orange Broadband Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; it was a New York Times Notable Book and a People and Black Issues Book Review Best Book of the Year.
Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
The original quote, if you wanna see it.
As usual, I hope you had a rockin’ week. Just remember, you gotta hold all the cards to have a good weekend. All of them—otherwise, it’ll be a disaster. A YUGE, totally, fantastically, record-breaking disaster, and I don’t want you to get a raw deal. Do you remember that Arnold movie?
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