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Wild Thriving

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Anna Elisabeth Howard, CJN
Mar 02, 2024
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The toilet in my upstairs bathroom is leaking. Not a big leak, just a tiny one that spreads a creeping damp spot on the bath mat, but I need to get the plumber in. 

And Nex Benedict is dead because some parents thought it was really important to teach hate and now a gorgeous kid with gorgeous dreams is just a memory. 

The “needs service” indicator came on in my car this week and I need to take it in for an oil change. 

One of my kids is struggling with math and in Gaza there are 13,000 children who will never ask for homework help—or anything else—ever again. And that number will be wrong by the time you read this. 

People are posting pictures of flowers that shouldn’t be blooming yet and other people are liking them because it’s hard to be sad about flowers and yet their early blooms are testimony to our warming trends. 

I had to vote in the republican primary in my county because there were no democrats on the ballot except for President and there’s an extremist group trying to take over…

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