maddie rune🪰

No one tells you that parenting is just relearning the world through someone who thinks worms are friends & birds are miracles. It’s the most healing thing I’ve ever done. My daughter looked out the window this morning & said, everything is green & growing. I told her, you too. And something inside me whispered, so are you. Now I’m watching her hold flowers up to the sun while the light bends like it recognizes her. It’s funny, every spring I think I’m teaching my child about the world & every spring she proves she’s the one teaching me how to see it.

Here is what I know about the human condition: we are all just children in adult bodies trying to finally get what we needed back then from people who are/were also just children in adult bodies trying to do the same thing. Have mercy…on them, on yourself, on all of us just trying to find our way back to something that felt like home.

Watching your child experience something that broke you when you were their age & being able to respond the way nobody responded to you…that is the closet thing to time travel I have ever known.

Do you ever just wake up and feel like you’ve been accidentally faking having talent your entire life or is that just a fun little morning activity for me?

I’m never sick…but I have this weird virus that feels like I’m legitimately swallowing glass. I may be crazy but it feels artificial. I can’t explain it. It just feels off.

I told my daughter I was sorry for being the laziest mom today (this razor blade throat virus is no joke) and she said: nothing you do could ever make me unlove you. I like taking care of you. Ma’am…why are you more emotionally stable than me at age 5? I love being a mom so much it’s embarrassing.

Artist: Eliran Kantor Something in his eyes speaks to me…like he’s seen the truth and it cost him everything & somehow he’s still trying to warn me without saying a word.

You don’t know someone until you’ve seen them in the specific kind of pain that has no solution. That’s when you find out who they really are. Honestly, that’s when you find out who you really are.

I got sober and inherited the clearest eyes and the loneliest seat in the room.

@HannahWardEdu You monkeys, you! 🐒

Read to your kids ❤️

I got sober and realized most people are not drinking. They are grieving something they never named with something that doesn’t ask questions.

I just read my new favorite poem.

I can always tell when something was written by AI because it sounds like it’s trying to be helpful instead of interesting.

@SkyTheViking All the time. When I’m falling asleep.

Do y'all ever hear someone call your name, but there's no one there? Like you audibly hear your name...and no one actually called for you.

I miss when art wasn’t trying to perform well, it was just trying to exist.

@teachrobotslove felt this so deeply

Sometimes writing a novel just feels like punching myself in the face repeatedly.

@ShadowofEzra If I saw him in public I would have no idea who he was and quite frankly I’d be scared and avoid all contact

Dom Lucre responds to the backlash he has been receiving and says he is being treated unfairly because people are jealous of him being a celebrity, adding that he creates the news. Lucre says his advertising rates have been public for a while, and he is entitled to them because he gets 600 million impressions every month. “I am one of the biggest creators on X.”