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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
I was lucky enough to get to spend a couple short months getting to know Cole Summers, and my life will never be the same. Here's something I wrote in his memory.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
I bought these at a thrift store without looking closely and I just
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
The real elephant in the (virtual) room is that you're addicted to your phone, the internet, social media. Nobody is saying it because we're all addicted too. But you're addicted to it and if you were the only one you'd look totally sick.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Men if your gf/wife is going crazy and you don't know why just put your hands on her shoulders and say "this is what is going to happen. I am going to get you a glass of water and then we're going to go for a walk and I will buy you a cookie and then we are going to come home"
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
I think nobody really grasps the consequences of being unable in ~90% of the developed world to buy a piece of land and build whatever you want on it without asking anyone for permission. The barriers that exist for home construction are financially and logistically prohibitive.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Based solely on your immediate gut feeling - not studies or anything - what is the biggest reason people are having so little sex?
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
this can't be real lmao
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
You know who's actually ungovernable? Babies.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Not having kids because the world is in too dire a state says less about the state of the world than it does about the degree to which you have been morally defeated.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
How do you deal with the fact that your phone is a portal to a demon realm and also probably the way you access useful information and keep in touch with people you love?
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
I have a daughter now. Probably going a quiet for a little while to spend some time with family. We had a healthy baby girl at home last night, everyone is doing great here. Love to you all!
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Ina May Gaskin, the founder of the modern midwifery movement, put out a public offer to any women who were pregnant and considering abortion. The offer was that they could come have their babies on the Farm (their community in Tennessee) with free care from the midwives. 1/
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
This is just the darndest thing.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Polarity is hot and we flattened the poles
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
I know you all like your old-fashioned antique wood cook stoves, but I really like my new one.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
The world would be so different if men knew the power in stating very calmly what the next 1-3hrs is going to look like.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
People are getting into homesteading because they can feel the abstraction and instability of society. Not just as a defense against collapse, but born of a realization that the alternative organized system of provision is increasingly inhuman, impersonal, and unintelligent.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Traveling is nice, but the idea that everyone should do it as some kind of self discovery project posits a view of life where your purpose is somewhere out there to be found, and largely separate from the people who have invested their lives in you and love you.
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@willlowthewhisp
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10 months
Excuse me but this is an absolutely cursed notification to receive from the app that connects moms with each other. This is supposed to be for finding play dates for toddler and local moms to hang out with.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
I honestly can't believe people are still using pod coffee. I see you posting your photos of your Keurig, your Nespresso. Obscene. This is one of the most unnecessary inventions which is destructive to the environment no less the soul, please stop at once.
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@willlowthewhisp
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4 years
Dance like no one's watching Love like you've never been hurt Make friends like there will be supply chain or social infrastructure collapse and you will have to rely on each other for basic survival
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
You should be able to build your own home and house your family on your own smarts and ability rather than getting a million energy efficiency inspections etc while developers build suburbs that are built like crap and are going to fall apart in 50 years.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
Young people without much cash but with a bit of skill used to be able to set out and make something of their own. Now in most places you're not allowed. The development and permitting fees are often immense, not to mention the hoops you have to jump through to get permits.
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
3 years
It's all fun and games criticizing the dominant ideology until you realize that you need more than a reaction to something you don't like to build a functional society
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
You're addicted for a reason. It's because you don't have any real thriving community in your physical world. Maybe you're in a rural area. Maybe the people around you aren't "based" so you come on here. Well, is this also what's stopping you from investing in physical community?
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
7 months
I believe one of the reasons women glow when they are in love with a good man is because their hormones regulate. At the end of a very stressful relationship I had the worst period pains of my life. After I met my husband my period got way more regular with very few symptoms.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
This feels like little more than a humiliation ritual, money grab, and make work for more administrative staff, all under the guise of safety and liability. More of your taxes paying more government workers to tell you you're not allowed to build a home.
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@willlowthewhisp
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9 months
There is something deeply satisfying about pushing as hard as you can against something (a tree trunk, large rock) and knowing that it will not move nor be upset by you trying to move it. This is the point of toddler tantrums.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
You don't come to understand women by sleeping with them, in case it needs to be said. You understand them by living alongside them and being a good husband, brother, father, and friend. Remarkable how guys think they understand women just because they sleep around lol
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
If you're very depressed or anxious maybe try radically re-orienting your life towards service to others.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
The best thing you can do is come here to make connections, get your gold (not their gold) and get out. If all social media went dark tomorrow it would probably improve most people's lives. You'd probably start looking for people nearby because you'd have no other option.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
You’re a girl, you go on a date with a guy and it goes ok. You're open to seeing him again. At the end of the date, he leans in and slips something into your hands. It’s heavy. It’s a copy of Gulag Archipelago. “I’ll see you in a month” he whispers in your ear. Wyd?
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
Many cases of women in their late 20s early 30s whose mothers started having kids in their mid 30s who now have guys tell them they are too old and not fertile enough to be considered a prospective wife
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
I share this because I think it's a good illustration of a way to prevent women from seeking abortions that is compassionate and practical.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
You're required to use stamped lumber (even though the hardware stuff is basically styrofoam these days), you need your designs pre-approved by an engineer, you have to follow each step and rule set out by office ladies who have never used a hammer in their life.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Like the little rats who got addicted to cocaine when they were lonely, you're only addicted because your real life isn't coming through. It's not going to just arrive, you have to build it
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
2 years
Some minor variation of this will work 95% of the time
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
I want to give this girl a hug, she is so young! People have been so cruel to her!
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
More people should listen to me and not the red pill relationship guys on here.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Buy land if you can. If you can't, try to get in a position where you can. Buy old houses too, but as much as possible buy open forest; buy undeveloped, wild land. Take care of it but keep it wild. The big guys aren't going to do it for you.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
If you are not that good looking or sort of awkward or unusual looking you should really just accept that and be very lovely and pleasant and confident. People will be relieved you aren't insecure and they will like you. Seen it happen again and again.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
Idk why everyone hates on coffee dates. A first date is a time you want to get a general vibe from someone in a low stakes setting in the day time where you are at low risk of physical threat and there’s very low pressure for physical intimacy
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
Also why is a pinch of patience capitalized and nothing else???
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Sometimes two very average looking people produce totally stunning children and that's how you know it was meant to be
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Listen, I have no takes on Russia-Ukraine. I do not understand what is going on. I am a simple woman, tending to my child and attempting to plan a garden and chicken coop to hedge against fertilizer crises, purchase a wood burning cook stove, invest my money wisely. I am Pslam31
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
I have no real way of communicating the horror I feel at the idea of artificial wombs.
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@willlowthewhisp
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I have little baby
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
If this trend continues in 10 years twitter is going to be 85% people posting photos of their babies eating healthy food and updating us on the progress they've made on their homestead garden.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
My house is a strange and beautiful place
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
2 years
Here I'll do it for you guys. Here's what's going to happen. Libs are gonna come call me a misogyinist and the annoying PUA/red pill guys are gonna come be like "she see's right women are children" i'd like you both to realize that you are wrong and miss the point. Here is cookie
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I believe they could stay as long as they liked and many ended up living there. They could choose to have their baby fostered by a family living on the farm, but the birth mother could at any time decide she wanted her baby back. Most women ended up keeping their babies. 2/
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
It's too easy here. It takes no effort to log on and get flooded with people who share your worldview. It can feel like a village. Many of these people are in a very real sense your friends. But they're not *yours*. They don't belong to you. They aren't your neighbor.
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spot the difference
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
You really don't realize how good babies are untill you have your own baby.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Nobody has ever used this side
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
If you're a man who is taking selfies (that don't include your wife and or children) you should take a long walk to think about why you're doing that.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Climate change is real, and also the wrong problem to be tackling. We must break it down. Put people on species preservation, reforestation, increasing small scale farming, dealing w ocean acidification and microplastics. The framing of climate change is too overwhelming
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
Imagine cutting one of these down, like slaying an ancient god
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@willlowthewhisp
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Your friends aren’t supposed to serve a purely social & emotional function. You’re supposed to help each other with things that you’d otherwise be unable to do, accomplish things and burden each other. You should both feel like you are permanently indebted to one another.
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What is your unpopular opinion about friends that will have you like this.
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3 years
If you want to understand what they have taken from us - my husband has been saying since we met that he'd take me on a date to the dump to go look for cool stuff but every dump is so thoroughly monitored that it's nigh impossible. This is what they have stolen from us. Romance.
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@willlowthewhisp
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I'm not saying it's all bad. There's real good that comes from here. But always be finding the offramp. At least to the point where it's not your main social outlet. That's what's unsustainable.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
If you are a man having trouble attracting women, you should start lifting and learn to partner dance.
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@willlowthewhisp
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1 year
One of the things that broke my ethical vegetarianism was hearing people argue through the same ethical logic that animals killing and eating one another in the wild could be considered unnecessary suffering and that nuking the rainforest may be a viable method to prevent it.
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@willlowthewhisp
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3 years
You guys know you can put a little soap on your cast iron pan once in a while if you need to, right? Nobody is going to die.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Look at this harvest!
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
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You’re a 5th generation farmer and some terminally online urbanite chump tries to court your daughter with this mentality …wyd
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Justin
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Men, just marry a hot lower-IQ girl from a rural church, one who is simple and practical and faithful. You don't need or want impressive opinions about foreign films. "A little retarded but I love 'em" —words spoken by many happy husbands (and many happy wives no less)
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I have always wanted to sell little things I make. I have started making little cashmere baby booties out of recycled sweaters. If I were to sell these, would you purchase them?
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On my first date with my husband we got coffee and then walked around and he was hungry so he got shitty grocery store sandwiches and we sat on a bench while he ate and he told me he was not autistic. It was a very depressing date but he won me over later, as you can see.
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2 years
Good morning, please pray for the marital stability of the albatross amidst these trying times.
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@willlowthewhisp
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9 months
When your 21lb toddler can walk your 75lb dog, that’s a good dog.
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1 year
This corner of twitter glorifies getting married fast and having lots of babies young. While I believe this is a good thing generally, it shouldn't be made into a goal so perfect that you ignore your intuition and try to make your unique circumstances confirm to an ideal.
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
1 year
My baby frequently walks around whispering gibberish to herself under her breath while doing busy baby things.
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
3 years
hello yes I am here to brag about the panel in this door my husband built
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3 years
Truly nothing has radicalized me like realizing the degree to which people are completely blind to what they actually want in life
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willow 🌱
2 years
OMG my baby just laughed 😭😭😭😭 at the dog leaping on command. Gonna be riding this high for weeks
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
2 years
If someone (eg me) started a finishing school for young ladies in which they learnt finish carpentry we may be able to have nice things once again. Skip university, become finish carpenter, meet framer husband. Create beautiful things. Match made in heaven.
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2 years
My baby must live a certain way
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2 years
Not enough people practice friendship through attrition. Just wear people down, unselfconsciously, until they become your friend. When my now best friend wasn't responding to me I would dm her things like "omg guess what!!" and trick her into answering, then continue the convo
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1 year
One of my least trad opinions is that intergenerational households are not actually great. I would like to have my family live within a 5-30 minute walk of me but not in my house. I want my space. I don't think people understand the kinds of sacrifice you have to make to do that
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3 years
I think I've said this elsewhere but one of the things I find most infuriating about the neo-hippies, some meditators, and some sects of the post rationalists is that they frequently mistake healthy boundaries for repressed trauma that is preventing you from connecting with them
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
3 years
Indefinitely preserving optionality is actually a definite reduction of options because some things require an early start or many years work
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
3 years
Have you considered that maybe you actually are like other girls but the other girls aren't as bad as you thought??
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
2 years
Crazy that you can just kiss your baby as much as you want!!!!!
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@willlowthewhisp
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4 months
It’s becoming more and more clear to me that as a parent you must assume the position of loving benevolent gentle attentive but supreme and absolute dictator.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
If you get sick and your spouse doesn't that means you married well
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
What if I bought a cow and started an underground coffee shop where you had to go milk the cow if you wanted a latte
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@willlowthewhisp
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7 months
Mothers of large families, like 5+ kids….how does it shake out? What does it feel like? What’s hard, what’s wonderful, what things have you done to make things run more smoothly? I am just so curious about what it is like to have a big family.
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willow 🌱
3 years
How have you reconciled your care for the world with your limited capacity for action?
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willow 🌱
1 year
My 18mo still isn’t talking beyond a few very simple words but her new favourite thing is for me to tell her all the things she can say when she learns to talk. I started talking to her last night about it and she kept signing more anytime I stopped.
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willow 🌱
1 year
One of my questions on my matchmaking intake form is "What is your ideal home?" Very interesting that nearly without fail, men primarily describe where the home is situated and women primarily describe what the inside of the home is like in great detail.
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3 years
I really cannot express how much I love this
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willow 🌱
2 years
hahahahah that's so funny and ironic but your dog is not your son he is your DOG
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willow 🌱
3 years
My days are haunted by the thought of farm wives, who kept house, washed the dishes, made 3 meals a day, processed food, gardened, made and mended clothes, tended to animals, helped with farmwork, raised multiple children, all without electricity, running water, etc...
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3 months
I know y’all hate Walmart but today the 10lb bags of potatoes were on sale for $1. I was there for 15 min and had many moments of joyful camaraderie, bonding over the sale potatoes. Potatoes in every cart. Best shopping experience in a while
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
11 months
Happy Summer Solstice ❤️
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willow 🌱
7 months
Once again reminded of how deeply insane it is that “consenting adults” was ever considered sufficient moral grounds for anything
@PatrickHeizer
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I think consenting adults should be allowed to do as they please, especially when it results in a child in loving family.
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4 years
"I am not photogenic" - probably unattractive - self-deprecation now low status - conversational dead weight "The camera cannot capture my essence" - attractive & elusive - implicit challenge -what is this essence all about, can I capture it - potential faerie ancestry
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
3 years
The fact that municipal bureaucrats will tell a family they cannot built two homes on their rural property and then look on smilingly while developers bulldoze town land to build row houses, 4 gas stations & parking lot strip malls is one of the great injustices of our time.
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@willlowthewhisp
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2 years
Making orange cardamom scones listening to my husband read medieval legends to our 6 week old. I think it's going to be a good year.
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@willlowthewhisp
willow 🌱
1 year
This is insanely dystopian to me. We are meant to be human, not something else.
@elonmusk
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@ashleevance We are now confident that the Neuralink device is ready for humans, so timing is a function of working through the FDA approval process
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