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@wilder_rose_ Congrats!

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@gloriahass Right?

@fshrum That's plain sad.

@CassCoopWrites Congratulations. That’s huge.

Holy cow! I'm working on my next Substack article and just realized I have 6 (SIX!) completed manuscripts under my belt. 🤯 Only one is getting published at the moment. How many do you have? #writingcommunity

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@BechtolJay I would love to see it. I like actors going outside their typecast roles. Like Robin Williams in One Hour Photo.

@fshrum yep

Do you think Kevin James could play the part of the tough guy sidekick in a crime movie?

@KennethMGRAY2 😎

@fshrum I'm the smitiest. X😶

Twitter has a Block button and a Mute button. I need a Smite button.

Can I come over and stare at you like this

I’ve been waiting my whole life to give my library comments! 👋

Robotaxi now in Tampa & Orlando!

@kevinrtipple Better than gold!

Mine was incredible.

The right spouse is a literal superpower.

@uncledoomer This explains why people go into entrepreneurship.

i feel like this feeling immediately goes away when you get paid enough

@90sWWE Big Bossman was my favorite

If you were a wrestling fan in the early 90s as a kid, there's a good chance you hit one of these guys with a flying elbow drop

Everlong is of my personal top five songs of all time. It has not aged. In fact, it has grown more poignant over the last 30 years. What song is like that for you?

The best way to improve your own happiness and well-being is to practice gratitude. If you've never done this before, this sounds ridiculous, or silly, or maybe like someone is trying to swindle you out of getting less than you deserve. But I promise, gratitude is the only way to see that you are already overflowing with gifts, more than you can ever even appropriately conceive of, and that you owe your existence to an impossible, beautiful debt that can never be repaid. I used to have a lot of bitterness in my heart, and I'd nurse it on petty miscalculations, an imagined ledger in which I was aggrieved and had been wronged simply because I wasn't getting whatever little thing I wanted in that exact moment. Letting go of that is freedom. A fundamental perceptive shift. It'll allow you to feel an unparalleled joy that cannot be taken away because of an errant whim or a stray thought. And even after you've gone through this process, there will be people who will insist that you're being delusional and stupid, that actually you SHOULD be mad and bitter. You should nurse yourself on vengeful thoughts like you're drinking venom from a snake. The fact that you're not suffering because of this obvious injustice means you're an ignorant fool. If only they could see it for a moment, a single moment, the freedom that comes when your ungratefulness no longer imprisons you.