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Someone I love as a fawn.

#13 inspiration

I know I've said this before but I can never thank these two enough for helping me get through college, without them I don't think I could've survived. 

Neil Degrasse Tyson, A beautiful being whom I love very much because of his love of science and is want to educate the world. 

Myself, this year I've been through a lot of things that should've torn me down. Very proud of myself, for becoming self-aware and proactive about the things that I care about. It's been very tough for me but I'm so happy that I got through it but hopefully I will get through things later in life. 

#6 podcast

This week I listened to the podcast American life, titled in defense of ignorance. End it tell stories about how ignorance was beneficial even helpful to people in certain situations. One of the stories was is that a girl was doing a story about her grandmother, Who lived far away in China. In Chinese custom, it is traditional for doctors, when faced with the news about a patient's demise, always break it to the family members instead of the patient themselves, leaving it up to the families to tell them whether they are dying or not. This is the case of the grandma who had stage four lung cancer and was diagnosed to pass in the next couple months. The family made the decision to never tell grandma, for they believed if one is told that they are dying then they will, even discussing it folkloric joke about two men one dying and one healthy, getting their results mixed up ,  leading the healthy want to die, and the dying one to live. they couldn't do anything for the grandmother yet they wanted to say their final goodbye without actuallg letting her know, so they decided to stage a fake wedding. The entire time emotions run high, because they knew that that was their final goodbye to the grandmother, so a lot of people did cry, and everyone told grandma that they were just happy for the couple. After that though, the months and into years, with grandma still living today. Which everybody in the story was happy about, and slightly baffled.

#5 podcast

This weeks podcast I listened to the second segment of the accidental gay parents on the longest shortest time. In the segment they talked about the children, and how was a struggle at the beginning of bringing them in, and letting them feel safe. In the care of the sister the brother and sister were abused by her boyfriend, One so much that he could not speak, and would have terrors in the night. But the couple would talk about how much they loved him but they could not fully commit to these children for they were afraid that the state would take them away because they were gay. The longest time they had the children called him uncle instead of daddy, and that they weren't sure if the state or the sister would come and try to take them away. All they could do was tell them that they were safe for now. But at the end of the segment a beautiful thing happened, they got full guardianship of the children. It's things like this like give me hope and make me happy about this world. 

# 4 podcast

I listen to the podcast longest shortest time, and this one was titled the accidental gay parents. It was about a gay couple Who lived with each other for a couple years and were enjoying their lives until one day they got the call concerning one of the couples Niece and nephew. It was child services, and they were warning that they were going to take the sisters children away, and wanted to notify the brother in case he wanted them. Only being together for a couple years, and not having made any plans for the future, they decided to go All in or none at all. They talked about how they convince the sister that they were going to take them for a couple days, and as soon as they got a hold of the children immediately applied for emergency guardianship. It goes on to talk about how they met, and how new their relationship was. I thought this piece was absolutely beautiful, The absolute and I'm conditional love still exists. 

Post #12 finished work

Sister painting to the first...

#13 inspiration

I was handed this when a parade of Hare Krishnas came through town.  I got a pamphlet of their religious texts and a cookie. 

My friend Dakota helping analyze a reading, The girl who's reading is being done is going through a struggle they say and that she has the power to over come.

Doll Jesus that I found at Saint Vinvents.