I am a gender neutral creative type who lives in western New Hampshire (a very weird ruralscape that has far too many Republicans). My pronouns are she/they. I am a director of a very small nonprofit in Vermont and in grad school for creative writing. My interests are all over the place and I will be sharing some odd shit that is reasonably safe for work.
28ish years ago I met a man from Canada. We hit it off instantly and soon were steeped in a highly charged long distance relationship. Our love is still strong and survived my OCD, his saying what he calls awful things to me, and about 9 years of not talking to each other because of all the things. Honestly there hasn't been a day when I don't think about him and wonder how he's doing or wanting to share all the things in my life with him. He follows me on the socials so he gets to see what is going on in my life if he chooses. Tonight he left a message that ended with him calling me "love" and my heart swelled and my whole body tingled. Only he has this effect on me.
My entire soul loves him but we are so far apart. I miss him being in my life the way he once was, even as dysfunctional as it was. But I understand his fear that 9 years wasn't enough healing time for either of us and that we will fall back into bad habits.
Maybe when our souls find each other in our next lives we will finally be together fully and have the magical relationship we're destined to have. I can't help but be jealous of that incarnation of me.
I added two new stickers to my Etsy site. Free shipping on all orders and they go out within a day or so. I have PRIDE stickers and bookmarks as well as a few Bigfoot items. They're all priced to go out the door. Every sale helps a little bit!
To bring squid facts to you. To your friends. To your neighbors. To some random dude named Brad who you've never met.
How? The Squid Facts Project. It's a street art campaign and hotline that texts folks squid facts!
Only snag in this hair-brained plan is that texting people is kiiinda expensive. So! I teamed up with Philly artist Corey Danks to sell shirts to keep the hotline running. Every one of those shirt dollars helps deliver squid facts to people.
Like, over 70,000 people over the last year!!! Isn't that wild?
So anyway. Get a shirt. They're cool, *and* they keep people learning about squid. It's a beautiful thing.
Also, the backs have the squid facts hotline on them so by wearing these you're helping people learn about squid too.
If you can't buy one, give us a reblog. I run a small science education nonprofit called Skype a Scientist, we're scrappy but trying so hard!!