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St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in lower Pac Hts. making the absolute best of the power outage. Mass by candlelight - what a blessing!

RESIST the urge to teach anything to anyone unless you’re asked.

@shedrinkswater 🙋🏻‍♀️Thank you for sharing and for so eloquently explaining this lovely weirdness of ours. I am usually unable to effectively explain this to family, friends. 😊

tldr: I am weird, and so are you if you relate to this.

Deeply sensitive people, especially those who absorb reality at an almost excessive depth, often struggle to process things instantaneously, and they are painfully aware of that internal lag. It takes them a significant amount of time to fully realise and metabolise what they are experiencing. Because of this, navigating ordinary social environments in the effortless way people are expected to becomes incredibly difficult. They become overwhelmed almost immediately because everything reaches them with too much intensity. It is all too much at once. You want to cry, laugh, move freely, participate in what everyone else is doing, yet something inside you restrains you. It feels as though some invisible force is holding you back, preventing complete surrender to the moment. And then the terrifying question emerges: what exactly are you so afraid of? It is difficult to exist in that state constantly, perpetually feeling disconnected from everyone around you, as though you simultaneously understand everything and nothing at all. You are aware, deeply aware even, but awareness alone does not help. You recognise the direction your life, body, and psyche are trying to move toward, yet something within you still resists taking the actions necessary to follow that awareness fully.

Beautiful essay on adult friendship

@JasonRobertC No judgement from me! I ruminate and procrastinate like they’re an Olympic sport.

@pluckyneon The truth hurts. 🤣

I know I come across all zen and everything sometimes, but I am such a classic over-thinker. I torture myself when planning things. Too much scenario analysis. 🤣

@bvbauld @seaviking54 @athenaeumbc I heard this in the voice of Alan Rickman’s character in Galaxy Quest and I giggled effortlessly.

@seaviking54 @athenaeumbc Yes, how effortlessly one peruses this list.

The Guardian has just published its "100 best novels of all time" list — these are the top 12. Toni Morrison's Beloved is in 2nd. Dostoevsky does not make the top 25... What do you think?

@MichaelCue97159 @PrayTheRosary We also have rosary 30 min before every mass and I absolutely love it! Sat mass is at 4:30 pm and Sun at 9 am and 11 am.

@PrayTheRosary Rosary starts at 8:30 a.m. on Sundays and at 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays with Mass following.

What time is your Mass today?

@Lovandfear Museum + local, independent book store. ❤️

Library date or Museum date???

@SharylAttkisson 3 months.

Assuming people are typically on their best behavior when you first meet them, how long (on average) would you say before they reveal whatever their true self it?

@Joseph_Fasano_ Happy Birthday! 🎊🎉🎈🎂

Today is my birthday, which is always a day of complicated feelings. The greatest gift is just being here, being able to keep changing, to keep becoming, in the hope that the work I'm doing is helping in some way. ❤️

@JasonRobertC Ah yes, rumination, the intellect’s favorite way to procrastinate!

@pluckyneon Why make a decision when you can ruminate on it forever? 🤔🤣

@NonNobis79 @Joeinblack Yes, absolutely avoidant behavior. Working on it. 😊 Interesting point on judging. I’ve not considered until now that judging people is the just the mirror opposite of seeking validation. Both serve our ego by looking to others. Both separate us from God.

@pluckyneon @Joeinblack yes, the same goes for judging people, it's ultimately looking towards other people instead of God. other people are simply not relevant in that context. The desire for connection becomes disordered because avoidance behaviour.

When wrestling with a habitual sin or really any kind of sin, it’s helpful to pause and ask Jesus “what am I seeking when I do this?” We rarely sin for no reason; sin doesn’t want you thinking of things too deeply, let alone thinking with the mind of God. #talkedtotheboss

@justice4all77 @PrayTheRosary I’ve been looking for something like this! Thanks for sharing!

@PrayTheRosary Just finished Between Two Fires, a medieval horror. Outside of what I normally read but was interesting with lots of Christian references and a battle of angels and demons with humans in the middle kind of story

I started reading again. I need some book recommendations. It doesn't have to be Catholic. I just need more good things to read.

@SeanTrende That was the best part of a road trip!! Looking at the trip-tik and planning every stop!

Every trip, my mother would take a trip to AAA and get the directions printed out on a “trip-tik” that was like a pamphlet on how To go somewhere.

@NonNobis79 @Joeinblack For me, it’s usually both. I may be seeking connection but looking in places that don’t serve me well. Connection is good but not outside God’s will and not when I use it to numb myself to avoid the pain of going inward. Disordered desire.

@Joeinblack I realised that in my case one of the main motivations wasn't looking for something, but rather avoidance. For example if you look for validation with people it is on a deeper level avoidance of what God wants and values.

More than 250 years before Pantone, an artist documented every imaginable color in a 900-page book. In 1692, A. Boogert wrote a Dutch book about mixing watercolors and how to create specific hues by adding water. A visual 🧵 and 🔗 to the full book 👇

@HellRaz0r1776 @AndyAsAdjective It’s a great “dad joke”! 🤣

@pluckyneon @AndyAsAdjective 🤷‍♂️

When I was younger, I lived just a stone's throw away from a family who all died of mysterious head injuries.

@cattttrenee @ClevelandArt The Cleveland Museum of Art has over 61,000 pieces from across 6,000 years of global history. It’s one of the most visited museums in the world and it’s FREE ADMISSION!

To answer: Cleveland has the second largest theater district after NYC, we are the first major city to elect a black mayor, Superman and Freddy Kruger, Halle Berry, The O’Jays. I know yall like to make Ohio the butt of the joke but y’all mamas love the Isley Brothers & Zapp Band

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