
2020. A year without the demarcations of time, ritual, or routine. I fall into bed every night, exhausted and unsure why. I got a haircut in June. Went camping at the end of July. Haven’t been to work on a film set since February. No weddings, no graduations, no summer trips. Five months of days…
My house smells like bleach. Not because I’m cleaning, nor am I drinking it. I’ve reverted to my punky 12 year old self and to keep from screaming every time the news comes on, I’m writing an anything I can with a Clorox Bleach Pen. I sometimes feel that my belief in the power of…
July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of…
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