Diversity is strength.

Equity is strength.

Inclusion is strength.

Don't let hate from fear and ignorance, a place of weakness, last.

#bf_psychology #ct_biography

I have a hard time believing I did this.

I was offered to go down into a basement full of books and take whatever I wanted without paying for them.

Told myself I didn't have space & walked away.

Told my wife and she asked what I did with her husband.

For context, in the past, I had a 2 room apartment with a kitchen and bath. When we moved, my books filled up 4 rooms of our new to us rental house.

#books #bookstore #libraries #z_lib #bf_psychology #ct_biography_marriage #ct_biography

My mind works this way.

This is an octopus ready for a fight, two tentacles up like a boxer.

These are 2 boxers back to back.

This is a "robber baron" from the 1890s with a very large swooping waxed mustache.

I think these 3 things before it even occurs to me to figure out what this actually is.

Thinking "inside the box" is sometimes difficult for me.

#bf_creativity #bf_psychology

I was taught "Fight or Flight" were the responses to possibly dangerous situations.

No one told me about the third, the one I've sometimes experienced.

""Freeze".

Sometimes with a blackout so you don't remember the situation you didn't ask for.

People are not "making that up".

#bf_psychology #psychology

Dog Thoughts
For a Valentine's Day

This stick.
Right now, at this moment,
This stick,
This stick
Is the best stick in the world!

- Poppy Mudfoot Wagtail

#poetry
#DogsOfMastodon
#ql_zoology_dogs
#bf_psychology