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Oct 30Liked by Jenna Park

Love your yin yang cats, algorithm and life goes on!!!!!

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Thanks Carson! It was fun and freeing, which is what I’ve been struggling with. Might have to paint more!

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Oct 30Liked by Jenna Park

Love the cats!

And try very hard not to think of your election - any country’s election for that matter - climate crises and civilians being bombed…. just cats and dahlia tubers 🫣

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The world is indeed a lot. It’s so hard. important to balance otherwise I think I might implode 😅

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Scratching the itch *is* the perfect metaphor for social media! I am a bit of a compulsive itch-scratcher, but fortunately mosquito bites — which I have largely learned to avoid — are my only real source of itchiness. I will now think of logging onto social media as going into a den filled with mosquitos.

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And now *I* have the visual of logging onto social as going into a den of mosquitos. It actually is a really fitting metaphor!

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Oct 30·edited Oct 30Liked by Jenna Park

It's so hard for me to find words right now to describe something that's so out of my control and yet will control how our life in the US will pan out the next decade. I've turned to distractions, reading, working, and just burying myself in something else until next week comes around. I'll deal with it when it gets here.

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It's the U.S elections, but it also affects everyone globally. Self care, Yuezhong! Sounds like you're on it, because unless this is a completely undeniable landslide, there won't be a peaceful transfer of power.

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Oct 30·edited Oct 30Liked by Jenna Park

Here bracing with you. Wishing (kind of) I had my expired bottle of lexapro on hand bc my generalized anxiety is on high. Instead I’m meditating walking running listening to music cooking delighting in my teens and doing my work. It’s all helping but….here we go.

I have faith. I do.

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Sounds like you know what you need, Carrie. Big hugs xoxo

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In addition to *all this* I have started a new job - last Thursday I was on the road for 4+ hours, which thankfully will not be a regular thing, but it was stressful aaaaaand, I’m not sure if this position is going to work out or not. And, my 50th birthday is this Friday, and my mother is still not speaking to me for some made up victimization she feels, despite the fact that I just had surgery (breast reduction) and some complications last month. Friday also happens to be HER birthday. 🙄 I am SO TIRED. Especially since I didn’t have a job for 15 months. This work shit is for the birds!

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Oh, this is a lot all at one time! I am sending you strength and last but not least, a BIG happy 50th birthday!! I know this age is complicated, and it sounds like you’re hitting the stuff all at once that’s not fun, but I hope the good stuff of turning 50 finds you too.

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Thank you so much. I truly have a wonderful life… just sometimes it all crashes down at once.

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I am REALLY digging your inky cats... might be on to something with the ink. I think you should keep doing it, your work is more expressive with the ink.

I have dialed back my social media intake these days. I have to for my sanity. I am voting the way I feel is best, at this point, it seems almost futile to try to convince anyone else what I think is correct. I just need it to be over... sigh.

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I'm bracing for next week too. Going to do my best to keep news checking to a minimum or at least not a maximum. This is the beginning of a marathon.

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It is. Election night won’t give us the results unless it’s a complete landslide but even then, we need to brace ourselves for what’s to come after. It’s all so overwhelming.

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Oct 31Liked by Jenna Park

Thank you for articulating the distinct "unease" of the time so well. I have been breaking out in hives every time I read the news so I totally empathize w/the signal flairs!

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My mental and physical health is down the toilet this week. I'm really trying to get myself out of it. It's been a struggle and going to dentists and doctors because everything has flared up. It can't be a coincidence!

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Nov 3Liked by Jenna Park

First I thought, the cats are awesome, and then I wondered if they are a political stance ... which I suppose is a sign that this election is taken very seriously, even across the pound. Good luck for the next days...

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Cats have, indeed, become a symbol of this election. I love it!

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