M is for Moving

Moving Day is at hand. Prepare to move your very very odd family. ~Aunty Shrew, The Secret of NIMH

The date looms. So do the stacks of boxes. To mix in yet another pop culture reference: “I don't wanna go.” I've lived here for nearly half my life; Los Angeles feels more like home to me than any other place ever has. Leaving at all is heart breaking. Leaving while the fascists running this country are sending the Marines & National Guard in to help ICE & the LAPD/LASD violate our civil rights feels like I'm running away & abandoning everyone, even though we were planning to move before this all started. I hate that greedy billionaires decided they *still * didn't have enough, so they decided to drain Hollywood dry. I hate that we got about 15 minutes of Pride & have had to spend the rest of June in Rage. I hate that people are claiming that Angelenos are burning LA to the ground, & I hate that other people are just blindly trusting that even though it's an obvious lie. I hate that the fascists announced they're going to “liberate” us from California's democratically elected leadership, & people still hesitate to call them fascists. I hate that Democratic representatives have been wrongfully arrested- and that it's happened repeatedly, so you don't even know which arrest prompted me to write this sentence! I hate that Trump lies and lies and lies and lies and no one in power stops him as the war crimes pile up. I'm supposed to be moving thousands of miles very soon, & I just keep dissociating instead of getting things done. Sorry folks, I try to keep things upbeat, but my world is falling apart & I just can't right now.

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Watercolor Fire Flower from Mario Bros. A happy red & yellow flower with eyes grows in a dirt-filled pot that looks like the green pipe from the games. Is this too depressing? Here, have a fire flower.

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